Over 150 adhoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who worked in Anambra during the just concluded elections have protested non payment of their allowances. The visibly angry protesters who thronged the INEC Headquarters in Awka on Tuesday, carrying placards, called for the immediate release of their allowances. The protesters carried placards that inscriptions that depicted their disenchantment with the commission such as; ‘pay us our money’, ‘INEC you can not eat out...

The synod of the Diocese of Awka (Anglican Communion), yesterday, rated President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight-year rule very low, saying that he failed Nigerians. Bishop of the diocese, Most Rev. Alexander Ibezim, disclosed the position of the diocese while presenting the Archbishop’s Charge to the 1st Session of the 13th Synod at St. Peter’s Church, Agulu in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. Ibezim, who doubles as the Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of the...

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in this year’s elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that he would be president of Nigeria if God has endorsed him to be. Obi, who spoke on Friday during a public presentation of a compendium on him entitled: Peter Obi: “Many Voices, One Perspective” at Finotel Hotel, Awka, Anambra State, said that he was not desperate to be president of the country. He said that he was confident that...

The 35-member Labour Party caucus in the 10th Assembly of the House of Representatives has elected Hon. Afam Victor Ogene as its Leader. Hon. Ogene, a ranking member from the 7th Assembly, emerged as the Labour Party leader with 21 votes, after a keenly contested election yesterday in Abuja. Although 34 Members-Elect of the Party were present at the voting session, only 31 of them took part in the exercise, with the trio of Honourables...