The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the final list of candidates for the Sept. 19 Governorship Election in Edo State. The commission disclosed this in a statement issued by Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the list of the 14 political parties published by the commission shows that 12 out of the 14 governorship candidates were male...

Mr Fred Aimienwanwu, Vice Chairman, Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo, has raised the alarm on threat to his life and family over his refusal to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Aimienwanwu in a petition to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5, Benin, alleged that the council Chairman, Mr Destiny Enabulele and one General Peres were after his life. In a petition signed...

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Kano state Governor has recently effected a minor reshuffle of his cabinet. He has redeployed three commissioners to other ministries. At the end of the State Executive Council (SEC), the governor inaugurated the new commissioners and assigned them portfolios. Among the new commissioners, Lawan Musa, a past state Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has been moved from the Ministry of Housing and Transport to Ministry of Justice. Mahmud Muhammad Dansantsi...

The hurdles on the path to contesting in the primary election and winning the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the governorship election in Ondo State by Agboola Ajayi, the embattled Deputy Governor of the State seem to be unending. After surviving the Yakubu Dogara-led screening alongside seven other aspirants, Mr Ajayi has been accused of conniving with the acting Chairman of the PDP in the State, Clement Faboyede, to change the list...

A pro-democracy group, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidency Project 2023 on Sunday said that the 2023 presidency should be ceded to the South East in the interest of equity and fairness. A statement issued in Abuja by Dr Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu, the Convener and National Coordinator of southeast APC Presidency Project 2023, said that the time was ripe for the zone to produce the president for the country “Whatever or whoever will cause the South-East not...