The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has said the current pain and inconvenience created by redesigning the Naira would bring significant long-term economic and social benefits. Obi also urged the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and commercial banks to speed up efforts to make the new Naira notes available to small depositors and unbanked Nigerians. He said this is to help reduce the pains of Nigerians, especially those living in rural...

With only 21-days left for the 2023 Presidential election, an Awka-based Political Scientist, Dr. Emmanuel Obiano, has appealed to the National Leadership of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), to adopt the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, as it a candidate for the February 25th election. The West African Pilot News gathered that the call for the adoption is coming three months after Governor Soludo who is also the national leader...

Apostle Johnson Suleman, the founder of Omega Fire Ministries, has tasked Nigerians to protect their votes during the forthcoming general elections. In a post on Twitter, the cleric urged Nigerians to ensure that they exercise their franchise during the elections and protect their votes by taking photos and videos of the events at their polling units to avoid rigging and other manipulation of the election result. He said this measure became necessary given how badly...

…Gives Okowa 48 Hours To Retract Attacks On Clark The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has expressed concern over the reaction of the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples  Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections regarding the statements made by the leader of PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark over the issue of his (Okowa)  emergence as the running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of...

The mock accreditation conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2023 general elections using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine has been described as very efficient. Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this when he visited some polling units in Abuja on Saturday and observed that the mock accreditation was impressive. The INEC chairman who went around Abuja Area Council said he is optimistic about the performance of the...