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NIGERIA's Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has taken out insurance cover for its 1m ad-hoc staff and officials who would participate in the forthcoming general elections including members of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC).

ALL Progressive Congress (APC) Kwara Central Senatorial District candidate Dr Ibrahim Oloriegbe has called on the electorate to reject his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival Senator Bukola Saraki because he does not uphold Islamic values.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's campaign spokesman Festus Keyamo has defended his principle's recent gaffs saying there is nothing wrong with a person suffering from memory loss as even Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed were afflicted by it.

NIGERIA'S Coalition of United Political Parties (Cupp) has alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is planning to implicate the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in a case of alleged gunrunning.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has defended Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s recent statement threatening foreign observers who attend this month's elections saying there in nothing to fear as the elections will be free and fair as well as devoid of violence.

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) governors across the southeast geo-political zone have apparently had a rethink about plans to support President Muhammadu Buhari in this month's presidential elections after holding a meeting with his rival Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

ABOUT 100 unemployed graduates from the southeast geo-political zone have been offered training by the Federal College of Horticulture in Gombe State to enable them commence poultry production.

NIGERIA'S federal government has signed a memorandum of understanding (Mou) with local print firm Iris Smart Technology and the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company to produce the new 10-year international passport.

NIGERIAN kidnappers have released six Russian sailors who were abducted near the border with the Republic of Benin in January during an attack on the container ship MSC Mandy on which they were travelling.

Last month, pirates attacked the ship when it was near Benin’s territorial waters in what is becoming an growing trend off the coast of Nigeria. On January 2 when the attack took place, there were 24 people on board the ship that was flying the Panamanian flag, most of them Russians.

IMO State's Governor Rochas Okorocha has warned Ndigbo that they need to apply tact and wisdom in dealing with the rest of the country or they will continue to lose out politically as he effectively starts his 2023 presidential campaign.