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Not less than 18 candidates cleared by INEC will contest the governorship election in Kogi, 17 in Imo and 16 in Bayelsa. Since the return of democracy in 1999, several elections have been conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), though not without reservations, hues and cries by political actors, analysts and watchers. Of utmost concern to many Nigerians …

WASHINGTON — As they face an increasingly urgent task to emerge as a clear alternative to former President Donald Trump, five Republican presidential candidates gathered Wednesday for the party’s latest debate. Trump, the overwhelming front-runner in the race, skipped the event, as he has the first two, citing his polling advantage. There was no shortage of noteworthy confrontations on stage, as the …

Today felt like a ceremonial comma. A punctuation mark in an autumn of familiar political sentences. The government setting out the hoped for legal architecture to make their recent promises a reality. Those hoping for a frisson from the unexpected will have left deflated. But Downing Street never suggested this would be a flurry of the fresh, a wagon load …

…says there must be an end to detention The court directed that Emefiele should be released to a team of three Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, that represented him in the matter. An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on Wednesday, granted bail to the detained Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. The court, in …

The Central Bank of Nigeria has instructed all its branches nationwide to continue issuing various denominations of both old and redesigned banknotes in ample quantities to deposit money banks. The apex bank disclosed this in a statement signed by its Director, Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, and posted on its X handle on Wednesday. This comes in response to reports of …

Ahead of the Saturday, November 11, governorship election in Imo, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said there will be no election in the polling units with no registered voters. The commission also published detailed information on 40 polling units where elections will not take place on Saturday. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, …

• Only Delta, Lagos, Nasarawa, Oyo, Plateau, enjoy full financial independence• Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Benue, nine others have partial autonomy• Soremekun, Ajayi warn against emasculation of legislature In clear disregard of constitutional provisions, at least 31 governors are yet to concede financial autonomy to the legislative arm of government in their states. Findings by The Guardian show that Houses of Assembly in …

—Labour Shuts down Imo, stops flights, cuts electricity, fuel supply  Leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and their Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterparts, yesterday declared an immediate and total strike in Imo State from today over last Wednesday’s attack on NLC President, Joe AJaero, and other labour leaders. They have also resolved to declare a nationwide strike …

Kukah stated this in an interview on Arise Television on Wednesday.  He said he has no personal grudge against the former president. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Father Mathew Kukah, said he was shocked to hear what former President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers were saying about him and his government. “There was nothing I said about President Buhari that was …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it won’t count votes in any polling unit where violence occurs in Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this in Yenagoa, at a stakeholders meeting. Yakubu, represented by the INEC National Commissioner supervising Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa and Rivers, Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu, said that INEC would deploy BIVAS to …