THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, asked an Abuja division of the Court of Appeal to set aside the Federal High Court judgment that stopped the commission from conducting governorship elections in five states of the federation next month.

DETERMINED to get to the root of the ongoing feud between the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Kastina-Alu, and President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, following alleged judicial malpractice, the National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, constituted a five-man probe panel to commence investigation on the matter.

Nigeria’s Nolly wood star, Jim Iyke, was Wednesday, arrested by the Nigerian Police for driving a vehicle with tinted glasses in Abuja.

THE ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday led eight other smaller parties to shun the signing of the Code of Conduct for political parties, jointly drafted by the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC, and the parties.

The Nigerian Army has reassured the citizenry that it will intensify efforts to arrest the ugly incidents of kidnapping and other criminal activities in the South East geo-political zone.

THERE were strong indications, yesterday, that the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, is not about to let up on its relevance within the Nigerian polity as it has scheduled a meeting of very senior retired military officers of Northern extraction to a meeting slated for Wednesday, March 23, 2011.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan told a Federal High Court sitting at Asaba,, that his tenure would come to an end in 2015 by virtue of the fact that he took a new oath of office on January 10, 2011, after winning a fresh election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, consequent upon the nullification of his earlier election and oath of office in 2007 by the Court of Appeal, Benin City, November 9, 2010.

INDICATIONS emerged, weekend, that no fewer than six Nigerians had been killed in the ongoing political crisis in Libya while more than 12,440 others were trapped in Tripoli and Benghazi.

LEADERS of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), yesterday, vowed not to allow an inch of political foothold to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos and the other five states of the South-West geo-political zone.

Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim is a politician with a sense of history. In this interview, he takes the reader down memory lane, from the political developments in Nigeria in the first republic, down to the second republic in which he was actively involved, and the aborted third republic.Ibrahim also speaks on the formation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, as a pioneer member, the administration of Obasanjo and the ongoing political process