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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and one-time Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial Zone, Alphonsus Igbeke, have gone to court to stop the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General •Text courtesy of Channels TV. Photo shows Buhari. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), from contesting in the election. In the suit filed at the Federal High in Awka the capital of Anambra State, the plaintiffs claim General Buhari had beached relevant provisions of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Electoral Act 2010. The Plaintiffs through their lawyer, Mr Nsobundu, had filed a nine-paragraph originating summon and a 22-paragraph Affidavit in support before the court presided over by Justice M.I. Abubakar in a suit number FHC/AWKA/CS/117/2015 and dated March 12 2015. In a press conference, Senator Igbeke said the suit filed by himself and APGA, sought an order declaring that General Buhari is not constitutionally qu...

Photo of a UTME student  Many of the candidates writing the ongoing Joint Admissions and Matriculation (JAMB) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have expressed their grievances over the sudden slash of the time given to them to finish their papers. Some of the affected students writing the examination, which kicked off on March 9 and ends on the 21st, voiced out their frustrations to News Express Correspondent in Ibadan. Mariam Ahmed Olayinka, who sat for the Computer Based Test (CBT) exam at the ICT Centre, The Polytechnic Ibadan, said she was slated to write her exam from 1:30 p.m., as stated on her slip, but her batch was called in at about 5pm – after about four hours delay. Her words: “We were supposed to start the exams at 1:30 p.m., but we started 5pm. We were given three and a half hours to finish up, but we spent 2 hours for the four papers. At exactly 7pm, while we were still on the computer, they asked us to...

A Photo of Pope Francis  Two years to the day after he was elected to lead the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics, Pope Francis said today that he expects to have only a short papacy. An ABC News report quoted him as telling Mexican broadcaster Televisa: “I have the feeling that my Pontificate will be brief, 4 or 5 years; I do not know, even 2 or 3. “I feel that the Lord has placed me here for a short time, and nothing more.” The report said the 78-year-old pontiff compared the feeling to “a gambler who convinces himself he will lose so he won’t be disappointed. And if he wins, he’s happy.” When asked if he liked being pope, Francis reportedly told the interviewer that he doesn’t mind, but that he also wouldn’t mind some degree of anonymity. “The only thing I would like is to go out one day, without being recognized, and go to a pizzeria for a pizza,” he was quoted to have said. Francis, who assumed the office following the resignation of...

Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has assured corrupt leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that nemesis would soon catch up with them. Fani-Kayode spoke against the backdrop of a forged letter purportedly signed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Brigadier Jones Arogbofa and believed to have been circulated by the opposition APC. According to him, “We have said it before and we shall say it again: the entire leadership of the APC is suffering from paranoia and delusion. They are hiding under their beds and running from their own shadows. This is a clear case of the biblical provisions that say ‘there is no peace for the wicked’ and that ‘the wicked run even when no-one is pursuing them.’ These people have lost their peace and they are running even when no-one is pursuing them. “If they are so sure of winning the election and if their hands are clean t...

The Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayodele Oke, has declared that “before March 28, no territory of Nigeria will be under control of Boko Haram.” He gave the assurance Wednesday in the United States of America while attending an event at the Atlantic Council, Washington. Oke, in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine, deflected criticisms that the on-going offensive against Boko Haram launched since the postponement of the presidential ballot from Feb. 14 to March 28 indicates the delay was a political move by incumbent Goodluck Jonathan. “It is above partisan politics when we are discussing national security,” he said. “Nigerians need this democracy more than the international community does,” he further said. Oke did take more seriously was Boko Haram’s recent claim they are now aligned to the Islamic State, which they announced in a video posted online on Saturday. That connection, if proven real, would be especial...