THE submission of the opposition Political parties in Ondo in respect of this Saturday’s Local government elections across the 18 council areas of the state is that it would be a selection rather than an election. They hinged their submission on the basis that major parties including the All Progressive Congress APC , the Social Democratic Party SDP, a faction of the Labour Party LP and the Congress of Nigerian Political Parties CNPP have dismissed the poll as a distraction and waste of state resources while civil servants are owed four months salaries.

Abuja— Former Finance Minister, Mrs Esther Nenadi Usman, was yesterday, taken into custody by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly receiving N2.5 billion of the N4 billion taken out of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on the orders of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in the heat of the 2015 election.

lagos—THE Chairman of Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, Justice Afolabi Adeyinka ,retd, has called on security agencies to protect the electorate against intimidation and other forms of election related violence to avoid voter apathy during the forthcoming local government election.

UGBORODO people in Warri South West Local Government Area, Delta State, have implored government and oil firms in the area to support their newly constituted Interim Management Commitment, IMC, in steering the community from years of setback caused by leadership strife.

Member-elect, Port Harcourt Local Government, constituency 1, on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, Victoria Nyeche, was not sworn in yesterday, alongside 11 other members-elect who won in the first phase of the re-run elections for legislative seats in the state.

United States government said, yesterday, that it provided Nigeria every information and intelligence needed to rescue the over 200 missing girls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

Osun State government has since last year introduced several measures to save cost of governance in tandem with the reality of the poor economic situation of the state occasioned by the stiff decline in revenue coming from the Federation Account.

THE Holy Bible commands humanity “Thou shall not covet thy neigbour’s house, thou shall not covet thy neigbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neigbour’s” (Exodus 20:17) .

United States government said, yesterday, that it provided Nigeria every information and intelligence needed to rescue the over 200 girls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, in April 14, 2014.

ABUJA — The Russian Federation has faulted local media reports alleging that it told the Nigerian government that the Russian company, TyazhPromExport TPE, which originally built the Ajaokuta Steel Complex was no longer interested in completing the steel mill.