The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi and his running mate, Dr Yusuf Datti Ahmed, will kick-off their campaigns on October 18 in Lafia, Nasarawa State. According to the schedule of the rallies released by the party, the campaigns will be taken to each of the six geo-political zones beginning with … [Read more…]
The Labour Party (LP) is set to unveil its presidential campaign Council list for the 2023 general election today. This was made known in a press invite issued by the Director General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe. The LP’s campaign council list is coming some weeks after party campaigns officially commenced … [Read more…]
The Host Organizing Committee of the Frontier Discourse Annual Public Lecture Series and Awards has announced the former president of the Nigerian senate and former APC presidential aspirant, His Excellency, Sen. Dr. Ken Nnamani, GCON, as the Chief Guest of Honor. The announcement was contained in a statement by the Chairman of the committee, Chijioke … [Read more…]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said new Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) would be made available by November. At a National Endowment for Democracy event in Washington DC in the United States, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, said 2.7 million double registrations were weeded out of the last Continuous Voters Registration exercise conducted by … [Read more…]
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) have said there is likelihood of more states experiencing floods in the coming days, especially in the North Central, South East and South Western States. Director-General, NiMet, Prof. Mansur Bako Matazu, and Director-General, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), Mr Clement Nze, gave the … [Read more…]
Chetanne Chinelo, Enugu As the ban on campaign activities for governorship elections is set to be lifted, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Frank Nweke Jr, has announced the unveiling of his campaign manifesto. In a statement sent to our Enugu correspondent by his campaign organization, the unveiling will hold on … [Read more…]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered Nigeria’s economic growth projection for 2022 from 3.4 percent to 3.2 percent. The downgrade is 0.2 percentage points lower than the 3.4 percent projected in its July 2022 report. The Washington-based institution disclosed this on Tuesday in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) for October 2022 titled, “Countering the … [Read more…]
Branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will commence traditional voting today (Tuesday)and tomorrow (Wednesday) over the ongoing strike by the union, The reporter gathered. The decision of the various branches will be transmitted to the National Executive Council for final decision. A highly-placed source within the NEC disclosed this in a chat with … [Read more…]
our gunmen on Sunday, allegedly disrupted Labour Party meeting at Umuida, Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State. The report gathered that the gunmen arrived on two motorcycles and started shooting sporadically into the air, dispersing party members and setting a car, tricycles and motorcycles ablaze in the process. A source who pleaded for … [Read more…]
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, described former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and the APC Northern Christian Leaders as impostors, having left the ruling party few weeks ago. Tinubu claimed that Dogara, particularly, has apparently lost his mind since failing to actualise his self-imposed ambition to be … [Read more…]
Gunmen have reportedly shot four soldiers dead in Iyiachi community in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State. The attack is coming 24 hours after a police station was attacked and set ablaze in the same local government. Two people, including a policeman and a civilian who had gone to the station to lodge … [Read more…]
This act is condemnable in its entirety. Nothing can ever justify this cowardly and brutal behaviour.” Ejike Eze, Enugu North senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has expressed shock over the murder of Lucky Idoko, the APC youth leader in the Igboeze-South local government area. Mr Eze, in a statement issued on Monday, … [Read more…]