Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change, has picked pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, as his vice-presidential candidate for the April poll.

AS Americans and Turkish nationals are being evacuated from the troubled Egypt, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Immediate evacuation of Nigerians from the North Africa nation.

SECTARIAN crisis in the northern part of the country, especially in Plateau and Bauchi States which has claimed hundreds of lives took a dramatic turn, yesterday, as the State Security Service and the police averted a bomb blast in a church in Bauchi even as anti-riot police corporal was slain and an inspector injured by hoodlums as they tried to repel an invasion of the students’ hostels of the University of Jos

The outbreak of fresh violence in Jos, the Plateau State capital, yesterday, and the Friday’s killing of the ANPP gubernatorial candidate in Borno State, Engr Fannami Modu Gubio, along with six others by suspected terrorists, at the weekend, heightened security concerns in the country.

Major General Asif Duraiz Akhtar (rtd), the Pakistani High Commissioner to Nigeria, in this interview, speaks on the challenges of his country, Pakistan’s relationship with Nigeria, terrorism, among other issues.

The violence and killings in the North East flank of the country took a more frightening dimension, yesterday, after unknown gunmen killed the ANPP governorship candidate in Borno State, Engineer Modu Fannami Gubio, and six other persons including the younger brother of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff, Alhaji Goni Sheriff, in Maiduguri.

DISCORDANT tunes trailing the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF’s reported call on President Goodluck Jonathan to abandon his presidential bid are yet to die down. The issue resonated at a meeting of the Northern Governors in Yola, the Adamawa State Capital, last night, with the helmsmen failing to reach a consensus on it, sources said.

Following the findings of the Presidential Advisory Committee, PAC, headed by retired General Theophilus Danjuma, that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was engrossed in corruption and high level debt profile, media team of the presidential flag bearer of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has called on the president to resign.

NO fewer than188 megawatt has now been added to the power generation in the country, through the Olorunsogo power plant, which brings power generation in the country to a total of 3,800mw with an estimated 4,000mw by the end of March this year.
This is amongst the first three projects in the National Independent Power Projects (NIPP) to be completed to this stage.

FOUR days to the end of the voters’ registration exercise, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has requested for additional N6.6 billion to cover the period of extension of the exercise being sought. Jega also claimed that 28.5 million out of a target of 70 million Nigerians have so far been registered.

FORMER Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and presidential flagbearer of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has raised alarm over the depletion of the excess crude account (sovereign wealth fund) and the nation’s external reserves.

The United Kingdom Border Agency has arrested 10 Nigerians over sham marriages and immigration fraud over the winter, which has so far led to the arrest of over 200 foreign nationals.

WITH the concurrence of the Senate, the ongoing voters’ compilation exercise, which began on January 15 and initially scheduled to terminate on January 29 would be extended for four weeks.

Youth corps members conducting the voter registration exercise in five units in Port Harcourt refused to register people for some hours, Tuesday, protesting the non-payment of their feeding, transport and other allowances.

CHAIRMAN of the Independent National Electoral Commissioner and his national commissioners were, yesterday, locked in a marathon meeting to review the performance of the Voters Registration Exercise so far and explore the possibility of an extension in the two weeks earlier slated for the exercise.