The United States and United Kingdom have jointly revealed that  the “global spotlight is firmly fixed” on Nigeria’s  Presidential and National Assembly Elections scheduled to hold on March 28,this year... This duo nations disclosure was  contained in a joint statement by US Secretary of State, John Kerry and UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, issued in Abuja by Sean McIntosh, Spokesman, US Embassy. Kerry and Hammond, in an op-ed titled: “Global Spotlight is Firmly Fixed on Nigerian Elections” said there were good reasons why the international spotlight was firmly fixed on Nigeria. They noted that about 70 million Nigerian voters would be going to the polls to choose their leaders for the next four years and“Whether the victor is incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan or opposition challenger General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) is entirely for Nigerians to decide. “Around the globe, Nigeria’s friends will be united in hoping that the vote will be peaceful, tr...

The Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Engineer Tele Ikuru has dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC and crossed over to join the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Announcing his defection in Port Harcourt some few days to the 2015 Presidential Election, Ikuru said his defection was based on his discovery that the APC “is a party of rebels, insurgents and anarchists clothed in robes of pretence and deceit”. In the address of declaration of defection tagged “A call on the Conscience of the People of Rivers State, he explained that he joined and followed Governor Amaechi in December 2013 who he called his boss and friend  out of extreme loyalty to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) along with other then disillusioned Rivers People. Excerpts of Ikiru’s letter to the people stated,”Ever since, as the true nature and motives of APC are unveiled, I have continued to twist and turn in extreme mental and emotional agony. The more I struggle to belong,the more the Rivers ma...

The report of the National Conference which held its sitting in Abuja and submitted its deliberations to the President late last year has been approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC)  for full implementation.   T he Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Anyim Pius Anyim, disclosed this on Wednesday while addressing State House Correspondents on the outcome of the FEC meeting held in Abuja. According to the SGF, council’s decision follow ed  the recommendation by a committee  set up by President Goodluck Jonathan  which concluded that the report is implementable.  Mr Anyim, told the correspondents that “ this is the first leg of the Jonathan administration’s concrete steps in the implementation of the recommendations and resolutions of the conference. ” “ T he recommendations and resolutions that have implications for constitutional amendment  were advised to be  be transmitted to the National Assembly for enactment ...

The  hullaba loo over the use or otherwise of the card reader for the March 28 and Aril 11 elections in the country may afterall die a natural death as the card reader test conducted by theIndependent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in Lagos State  and some other states in the country have proved somewhat successful. The card reader test which held yesterday in designated states like Ekiti, Delta, Niger, Lagos saw a good number of  residents coming out with their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) for the mock accreditation exercise. The exercise was reported to have taken place smoothly  for some, within only a few minutes and they are done, while for others it took quite sometime before their thumb print could be recognised by the card reader. He added that some other persons from some other wards came    out to check if they could be accredited but the card reader rejected the cards with an “OPC m essage which means Other Polling...

Musiliu Obanikoro        Yoruba Students have condemned in strong terms the defiant stand of the All Progressives Congress (APC) South West lawmakers who have vowed to resist their fellow kinsman, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro a Ministerial nominee from scaling through the National Assembly screening. The Yoruba Students   under the aegis of the   National Association of Oodua Students   [NAOS]   dissociated themselves   from   the attitude   put forward by some   Yoruba   APC   lawmake rs at the National Assembly   which they described as   an   embarrassment   to  the Yoruba  race. NAOS   members   also   questioned   why   the   SouthWest   lawmakers   would   neglect their   primary assignments   and abandon   the mandate freely   given to them   by the electorates so that the masses ...