President Goodluck Jonathan and his victorious campaign team are set to tackle Major Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) at the presidential election tribunal with the allegation that six million of the 12 million votes credited for the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, candidate in the April 16 presidential poll were fraudulently obtained.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has congratulated Chief Rochas Okorocha for winning the Imo State gubernatorial elections concluded yesterday.

President of the Dangote Group Aliko Dangote, yesterday, announced a two million dollar fellowship programme to develop young global leaders from Africa.

All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, governorship candidate, Rochas Okorocha, has won the Imo state gubernatorial elections.

The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday launched a legal battle over last month’s presidential election with indication that it intends to rely heavily on evidence provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Al Qaeda have confirmed Osama Bin Laden’s death in a statement posted on jihadist internet forums.

WITH 10,000 police men, four National Commissioners and four Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, and other Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, staff from neighbouring states on duty, the commission must get right today’s supplementary governorship election in four local councils and one ward in Imo State.

CHIEF of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petirin, and the Service Chiefs, yesterday, held a marathon meeting that lasted nine hours in Abuja following strong intelligence reports of plans by some groups to use the killing of Al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, to vent their dissatisfaction with the outcome of the 2011 presidential elections and cause crisis in the country.

SENATOR David Mark was, yesterday, confident of enjoying a second term as president of the Senate.
Mark’s quest was being buoyed by suggestions in Abuja that the present zoning arrangement and the Senate’s standing rules on ranking would be upheld in the forthcoming leadership contest.

NINE years, seven months and 20 days after the carnage that has become known as 9/11, the chief mastermind of the event, Osama Bin Laden, 54, was killed, Sunday night.

Declaring the killing of Osama bin Laden “a good day for America,” President Barack Obama said Monday the world was safer without the al-Qaida terrorist and mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. His administration used DNA testing to help confirm that American forces in Pakistan had in fact killed bin Laden, as U.S. officials sought to erase all doubt about the stunning news.

INDICATIONS emerged, yesterday, during the Workers’ Day celebrations, that Organised Labour and state governments were heading for a showdown over the implementation of the N18,.00 new minimum wage as many states were hinging its payment on the implementation of a new revenue allocation that will give more money to state and local governments rather than the Federal Government.

AHEAD of May 29 date for the formal inauguration of President-elect Goodluck Jonathan, there is palpable anxiety among members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who have started scheming for positions under the incoming government just as the ruling party leadership will barring last-minute change in plan, meet this week to discuss, among others, who gets what in the next cabinet.

A group of placard and palm frond- carrying Urhobo women suspected to be members of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, stormed the streets of Warri, yesterday, with two caskets, protesting the re-election of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State. The protest came as a group of Uduaghan’s supporters celebrated his victory in Warri with drums and music.

It’s May Day, a day that workers, all over the world, in solidarity, express their views on factors that influence their lives . It is a day to speak loud about working conditions, employer-employee relationship, the economy, etc.
Today, Nigerian workers will join their counterparts all over the world to mark Workers Day.