Southerners Flee The North En Mass

The elections are just 8 days away and there is a growing feeling that the elections will be marred by violence and general rigging.

Luxury buses loading-travellers going down south at a bus station in Kano today Photo PM News

Oritsejafor Tells Nigerian Politicians to Play By The Rules

The president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has cautioned Nigerian politicians ahead of the February 14 presidential election.

Ayo Oritsejafor

The Nation reports that the clergyman, who spoke at a retreat organized by the National Christian Elders Forum in Abuja on Friday, urged politicians to shun any act capable of causing violence in the country.

Ikorodu Division Students Root For APC

It was an ecstatic atmosphere Thursday afternoon, when students of Ayangburen Primary School,  Methodist Primary School and Oga Primary School, all in the same compound, thronged the front of its administrative building to canvass for support for the All Progressives Congress, APC in the forthcoming elections.

A Naij.com correspondent who was at scene of events says the students, numbering about 200, had just been given chairs with desks, school bags

Boko Haram Fighters Flee Cameroon After Attack

Cameroonian officials have confirmed that Boko Haram insurgents have been chased out of the country in a joint effort with forces from Chad.
The insurgents who attacked a town in the far north; Fotokol had retreated to Nigeria after at least 100 people were killed in the attack. Government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary made this announcement The Nation reports.

PHOTOS: Asari Dokubo Campaigns At Jonathan's Bayelsa Rally

Niger Delta militant Asari Dokubo went all out during President Goodluck Jonathan’s rally in Bayelsa. 
The elder statesman was oon top of a moving car, waving association to the amazement of lots of viewers.

Fayose rubbishes APC's audio clips on Ekiti election, says; 'it is fake'

Press statement from the office of the Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the audio clip released by the All Progressives Congress (APC), through  its media organ, SaharaReporters as fake, saying; he never held any meeting with anyone to rig the June 21, 2014 election, suggesting that his voice & those of others could have been faked using technology like Natural Voices.

GCHQ intelligence sharing 'was unlawful', tribunal rules

UK agency GCHQ's sharing of intelligence gathered by US mass surveillance programmes was unlawful, a tribunal has ruled.

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) said the intelligence sharing regime between the agency and America's National Security Agency did not comply with human rights law until December.
The IPT cited a lack of transparency.