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...

….NBA president, others make list President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN) as chairman of the Council of Legal Education (CLE). The newly reconstituted council, which will be inaugurated at Abuja today (Tuesday), also has 17 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) nominees as members. Members of the council include NBA President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), leading Evidence Law author, Mr. Sebastine Hon SAN, Mr. Paul Harris Adakole Ogbole (SAN), and Mrs. Olufunmilayo Roberts. According...

… Charges governors-elect to unite across party lines President Muhammadu Buhari has rated his administration high, saying that in eight years his government has built a foundation for peaceful, prosperous and a more united Nigeria. This was disclosed at the 2023 induction of Governors-elect organised by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) in Abuja on Monday. The President was represented at the event by the Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, where he told the Governors...

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...