President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked security agencies to ensure peaceful elections, warning it might be difficult to conduct the 2019 general elections across the country, if conduct of hitch-free elections in one state is difficult to achieve.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, revealed, yesterday, that the National Judicial Commission, NJC, asked judges facing allegations of corruption to step down because it was confronted with proof of evidence against some of them.

The Federal Government, weekend, said it would undertake a review of the pricing template for Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, to forestall a further increase in the price of the commodity.

There was tension in Niger Delta, yesterday, as soldiers allegedly raided an Ijaw community, four days after President Muhammadu Buhari met with Niger Delta leaders in Abuja as part of the efforts to resolve issues that led to renewed militancy in the oil-rich region.

Troops of 121 Battalion, Nigerian Army, deployed at Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Area, Borno, for Operation Lafiya Dole, yesterday, rescued one of the kidnapped Chibok girls.

His words: “The president can no longer say that he has nobody to talk to in the region, the leaders are there for him to talk contrary to his earlier statement that there was nobody to talk to in the region.”

THE Senate, yesterday, picked holes in President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposed 2016-2018 Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, and Fiscal Strategy Paper, FSP, describing the documents as empty and shallow.

THE Senate, yesterday, threatened to suspend plenary sessions if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fails to conduct all pending re-run elections into legislative positions in Rivers State.

Stakeholders from the oil-rich Niger Delta, yesterday, demanded that the region be included in the allocation and ownership of oil blocs in the country.

Tension in Abuja as lawyers protest calls for judges to step aside