Re-election: Yoruba Obas give Jonathan conditions

                                                                 President Goodluck Jonathan with Obas

As part of last efforts to win the March 28 elections, President Goodluck Jonathan is set to sign an undertaking with leaders of the South-West.

He has also appealed to traditional rulers from the geo-political zone to support him in his desire to be re-elected.

Investigations by our correspondents showed that the plea was the thrust of Jonathan’s message to the traditional rulers when he met with them behind closed doors on Friday and Saturday.

According to the thinking of the Peoples Democratic Party top echelon and campaign organisation, for President Jonathan to emerge winner in the rescheduled polls, he needs to win the South-West which is the geo-political zone with the second largest number of voters. It has over 13 million voters.

Police intelligence shocker: More political rallies likely to be bombed

                                                          Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba

The Nigeria Police Force Headquarters has received intelligence reports that there are plots to bomb more political rallies ahead of the re-scheduled general elections.

This is coming after the recent bomb blasts in Rivers and Gombe states.

On Tuesday, a policeman was killed and 50 other people were injured when bomb explosions and gunshots rocked the All Progressives Congress governorship campaign rally at Okrika National Secondary School in Rivers.

Three Improvised Explosive Devices were said to have been set off by yet-to-be identified persons during the rally.

INEC buys 20,000 extra card readers

                                                          INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega

The Independent National Electoral Commission has confirmed the procurement of about 20,000 backup card readers and 35,000 backup batteries as part of measures to tackle possible challenges during the accreditation and election exercise scheduled to hold on March 28 and April 11.

Recently-held elections in countries like Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Cote D’Ivoire, Uganda, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala and Colombia, which made use of similar biometric technologies, were marred with challenges like data manipulation, poor mobile networks, and breakdown of card readers.

Fleeing Boko Haram insurgents drown in Lake Chad

A large number of Boko Haram insurgents have drowned in Lake Chad as they fled the bombardment by Nigerian Air Force.

Though the number of the dead terrorists was not given, it was said that many of them died as they fled the aerial attacks by NAF jets on Baga, the location of Multi-National Joint Taskforce base seized by the sect in January, 2015.

A statement by the Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade in Abuja on Saturday, said the insurgents had buried land mines in over 1,500 spots on the routes leading to the town.

It said all the land mines were skilfully cleared one after the other, noting that the mining of the grounds could not save the terrorists from the aggressive move of advancing troops.

Kardashian sisters involved in car accident

                                                           Khloe Kardashian and Kim Kardashian West.

Khloe and Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and North West were all involved in a car accident, TMZ reported on Saturday.
According to the American gossip website Khloe was driving when she lost control of the car on a patch of black ice.