Stakeholders of North-West Peoples Democratic Party, PDP requests that the party`s constitution must be adhered to, to allow the zone complete eight years in the presidency, irrespective of President Umaru Yar Adua`s health condition. The party stalwarts from the zone rose from a one-day meeting in Kaduna with a resolution that the North-West zone should be allowed to complete the tenure regardless of any seeming constraints like the health situation of President Umar Yaradua. The Zonal PDP Secretary, Baba Lawal Aliyu, said that the PDP members were aware of plans by some ``mischief makers’’ to truncate that objective. Grace 95.5 reports that Governors of Kaduna, Kebbi and Zamfara states, party officials, ministers and National Assembly members from the zone attended the meeting.

The candidate for Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA in this month’s governorship election in Anambra, Uche Ekwunife, says she is back to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP for good—and the struggle was continuing. In 2007, Ekwunife was elected on the platform of PDP into the House of Representatives to represent a federal constituency stretching across Anaocha, Njikoka and Dunukofia Federal Constituency of Anambra.

But in October 2009, she defected to the PPA and was selected as the party flag bearer in the February 6, gubernatorial election. PDP suspended Ekwunife, alongside other members who left the party to pursue their political ambitions, but she said in an interview she did not regret contesting for governorship. She lost that election and returned to the House of Representatives amidst cheers from her colleagues. Ita Enang, who chairs the House Committee on Rules and Business, said Ekwunife did not violate any rules of the House and was welcome.

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, (NAMA) has said from April, all aircraft over flying the country\'s airspace would be tracked and automatically billed. NAMA’s Executive Director Operations, Adebisi Adedara, said that the auto billing would start at the end of March when the Total Radar Coverage of Nigerian Airspace, (TRACON) becomes operational.

Federal Commissioner for National Commission of Refugees Hadiza Kangiwa says at least twenty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty people were displaced during the January 18, 2010 crisis in Jos, Plateau State.

Ekiti State Broadcasting Station resumed transmission on Sunday, twenty-five days after it went off air on account of a faulty power generating set, its major source of electricity supply. Its three outfits, an AM Radio Voice of Ekiti, an FM Radio, Golden Voice of Ekiti, and its television arm all resumed full operations.

As the nation continues to witness unstable power supply, the Lokoja Business Office of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN is reassuring electricity consumers of equitable distribution of available power supply form the national grid. The Company has therefore blamed the current reductions on the dry season and pipe-line vandalism in the Niger-Delta area. The New Business Manager for Lokoja, Kogi State, Abednego Akubuko told journalists in his office that the nation’s dams cannot work optimally because of low water levels, usually experienced at this time of the year. He stressed that until water levels increase probably in the rainy season, power rationing will continue because PHCN customers across Nigeria must have a share of whatever megawatts of electricity PHCN is able to generate for now.

Kogi State government says its will stop at nothing in realizing qualitative education. It has therefore approved a Government Secondary School for Aiyede-Amuro community in Mopamoro Council Area, Kogi State.

The people of Mopa town in Mopamuro Local Government Area, Kogi State have endorsed the candidature of their son, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly for the gubernatorial elections come 2011/2012. A grand reception to celebrate a political icon and to bless Clarence Olafemi in forthcoming election was held at the Mopa City Hall.

Gunmen have kidnapped the son of Patrick Aisen, who was suspended as chairman of Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo state on Wednesday. His son, Uyi, a final year student of Industrial mathematics at University of Benin was kidnapped on Saturday, three days after his father was suspended from the council chairmanship on allegations of financial misconduct.

Ekiti State House of Assembly is to probe financial commitment of the state government to contractors handling on-going road projects.

Jigawa state governor Sule Lamido says appointment of caretakers or sole administrators to oversee local government councils is illegal.

Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has suspended Week 9 matches in the 2009/2010 Women Professional League. The latest postponement is the fifth in the league since the season began on December 6, last year.

A disqualified aspirant in March’s elections into the board of the Nigeria Premier League, Bode Oyewole, is threatening legal action against his disqualification. He said on Saturday elections were not a matter of life and death but he wasn’t going to sit back and allow what is unfair and wicked to go on. Grace 95.5 reports that Oyewole, a former Chairman of Shooting Stars Football Club in Ibadan, was not among six candidates screened on Friday. He insisted that the development was a surprise to him, adding that his disqualification was morally wrong and fraudulent.