2015 Governorship candidate of the APC in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has expressed confidence in his party winning this weekend’s legislative elections upon what he claimed was the neutral role of the security and electoral agencies.

Another vista was opened in the kidnap saga which the country has been contending with following a nocturnal abduction of three female students from their school recently.

After demolishing large swaths of targeted areas in Zaria and Kaduna towns, with much more marked for further removal, many residents of Kaduna town are on edge, with the passage into law last week of an executive bill that legalises the pulling down of structures in Kaduna deemed to stand against the city’s envisaged Master Plan.

Scores of Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) candidates and members of Association of Tutorial School Owners of Nigeria, have protested in Lagos and Ilorin over allegations of shoddy conduct of the recent JAMB examinations which led to the failure of some candidates for no fault of theirs.

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has sent a warning to President Muhammadu Buhari over the bill seeking to license religious preachers in Kaduna State.

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo North, Chief Jasper Olowojoba, has faulted claims by the state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the recent rowdy session in the Edo State House of Assembly that led to a-two week adjournment was because of alleged mismanagement of state resources and abandonment of governance by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Chief Michael Johnny, has cautioned against the killings in Rivers State ahead of weekend’s re-run elections in the state.

Imo State Government says it would construct Igbo Development Centre, which would ensure that the Igbo language does not go extinct.
Governor Okorocha, who stated this yesterday while launching Ikoro, an Igbo newspaper in Owerri, also ordered that all subjects, including Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and all, would be taught in Igbo.

EACH time I have had the opportunity to dedicate a tribute to a deceased colleague and friend, I always draw inspiration from a hymn. In the light of the very young children left behind by the demise of late James Ocholi, SAN and his wife Blessing, I believe that the words of hymn 176 (A&M) are, quite instructive. Penned by William Cowper, it is to the following effect

Nigerian politicians have been urged to employ mediation as a means of resolving political disputes.