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The Independent National Electoral Commission has stated that 2,537 candidates from 28 political parties will contest election to fill the 469 seats in the senate and the House of Representatives in the Saturday election.

The Director of defence information ,Maj . Gen. Chris Olukolade,has said the troops of the Nigerian Army have captured Gwoza,the headquarters of the Islamic Caliphate,declared by the Boko Hara insurgents in the North-East. Olukolade said in a statement in Abuja on Friday that the  city fell to a joint operation carried out by the Nigerian Air Force on Friday morning. Several ground forces were deployed from Madagali in Adamawa state and Bama in Borno for the crucial operation to reclaim Gwoza,which the insurgents captured and renamed Darul Hikima last year. Olukolade said the troops had earlier sacked the terrorists from several communities around Gwoza before the final onslaught on the town reputed to be the strongest Boko Haram enclave in the country. google.com, pub-7591058367659259, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

A federal high court in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned till april 22 and 23, all the suits challenging the eligibility of the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari,to contest in the march 28 poll. By implication,the court will not make any judicial pronoucement on Buharis eligibility till after the march 28 and April 11 elections.