UNPERTURBED by avalanche of criticisms against his re-election, Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State told intending pilgrims to this year’s hajj to vote for him in order to enjoy more of his administration’s support for them.

EDO State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, in Benin commissioned over 100 airconditioned luxury intra-city buses belonging to the Edo City Transport Limited.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has directed the 36 states’ Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, to liaise with security agencies in their respective states to set up prosecution departments in their offices.

In what appears a renewed clampdown on perpetrators of examination malpractices in Benue State, no fewer than 17 school principals in the state have been sacked by the state government for aiding and abating malpractice in examinations in parts of the state.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Monday restated his faith in the ballot box as the only viable means through which Nigerians would determine who their next president would be, even as he dismissed the so-called consensus arrangement being pursued by some presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, as a gang up that would fail.