1. All employees found at fault in the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections have been barred from running in the March 11 governorship and state assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This was disclosed by Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of INEC, at a meeting with the RECs on Saturday in Abuja.
2. Gen. Sani Abacha's son Abdullahi, who was one of his sons, has passed away. The deceased's sister, Gumsu Sani Abacha, stated this on Saturday.
3. The Labour Party announced that on behalf of Peter Obi, its presidential candidate, it had hired at least 20 senior Nigerian lawyers to challenge the results of the presidential election on February 25. The lawyers, who were selected from several chambers, were reportedly given materials that will be used as evidence in court, according to sources within the party.
4. The two wives and a son of Dan-Salama Adamu, the chief of Sarkin Kudu in the Plateau State's Ibi Local Government Area, have been kidnapped by suspected gunmen. This occurs just three weeks after robbers kidnapped and killed the Chief of Mutum-two Biyu's wife and five children.
5. Ifeanyi Okowa, the governor of Delta, said the Muslim-Muslim presidency is not God's will for Nigeria in a statement made yesterday. The governor also raised his worries over the church being shut down inside the Abuja Presidential House. At God's Fountain of Life Mission in Oleh, Isoko South LGA, he addressed on Friday during a gathering of Isoko church leaders.
6. The leading Igbo sociocultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has announced that it will not congratulate the incoming president, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his vice president, Kashim Shettima, due to Mr. Peter Obi's announcement that he will take the election results to court.
7. In a deadly clash in Gudumbali, Borno State, the Islamic State of the West Africa Province, ISWAP, is said to have killed 200 Boko Haram fighters, including women and children. According to sources, the Boko Haram militants fled to safety and then went for cover toward the Mandara Mountains in the Gwoza axis.
8. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, a Labour Party candidate for governor in Lagos State, said those who are unsure of his Yoruba heritage should research Lagos' history because his main concern is how to improve the megacity. The LP governorship candidate referred to himself as the original Omo onile olona of Lagos in a statement he released yesterday.
9. In a bloody battle in Kaduna State, soldiers from Sector Four, Operation Whirl Punch, and the 167 Battalion of the Nigerian Army cleared a bandit hideout. In a statement on Saturday, the state's commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, acknowledged the occurrence.
10. The special duty allowance payments for the police officers who were on the ground for the presidential and national assembly elections last Saturday are being delayed, they complain. Usman Baba, the inspector general of police, asserted that all of the force's employees had received their election allowances.
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