Politics

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission has cautioned political parties and followers to allow peace to enable the commission conduct of free and fair governorship elections in Kogi Imo and Bayelsa on Nov. 11.

A pressure group, Nigerian Business Communities (NBC) for PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday began conversations around the former vice president's proposed $10 billion intervention for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) if elected.

The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adebayo Adewole has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) of cheating during the last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.

Out-going Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State on Thursday accused Prof Nnenna Nnannaya-Oti, the Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the just-concluded March 18 governorship election in the state of being unfair to all parties that participated in the poll.

Maj.-Gen. LKJ Ogunewe (rtd.), the Action Alliance (AA) Governorship Candidate for Imo state in the forthcoming Nov. 11, 2023 elections, has expressed his sympathy to Igbo traders whose shops were demolished in Alaba International Market, Lagos by Lagos State Government.

As the vast majority of the political class continues to push for the extension of the deadline for the deposit of the old naira notes, Nigerian singer and half-brother of the Psquare duo, Peter Okoye, has said Nigerians now know the forces trying to force the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) out of office.