Maureen Ikpeama

In Enugu, Labour Party wins presidential poll with 428,640 votes

Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has won the presidential election conducted in Enugu state ,on Saturday , February 25, polling a total of 428,640 votes. Peoples Democratic Party, PDP got 15,749 votes, All Progressives Congress,APC had 4,772 votes, and NNPP got 1808 votes. Announcing the results at the INEC headquarters,Enugu on Monday, February…

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Ayade looses senatorial bid

Cross River State  Governor,  Ben Ayade has lost his bid to return to the Senate following his defeat by the incumbent senator representing Cross River North, Senator Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe. Ayade, who was in the Senate between 2011 and 2015, lost the National Assembly elections conducted on Saturday with 56,595 votes against Agom-Jarigbe’s of the Peoples…

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Obasanjo writes Buhari over presidential  election irregularities, calls for cancellation

Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo has written a letter to President Muhammad Buhari, over the irregularities in the 2023; presidential election, alleging that Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections were grossly manipulated and results uploaded without due process.  In the letter he personally signed on Monday, Obasanjo alledged that some INEC officials had collected “blood money”,…

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Guber polls: INEC Observers urge INEC to upload results once announced .Provide adequate security

Ahead of the Governorship and States House of Assembly’s elections coming up on 12March,2023, a Civil society group, under the auspices of Coalition of INEC Accredited Civil Society Organizations, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), to correct all problems encountered in the last Saturday’s presidential election, urging them to ensure results were uploaded…

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Nigeria’s debt level has climed from N19.3trn in 2015 to N91.6trn in 2023- Okonjo-Iweala

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has advised governors in Nigeria against excessive borrowing.Okonjo-Iweala said this on Monday in Abuja at the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) 2023 induction for newly elected governors with the theme “Governing for Impact (Building Sub-national Governance).She tasked the governors to improve on the Internally Generated Revenue…

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2023 elections: Enugu state PDP campaign flag-off at Okpara square

PDP supporters came out enmasse for the rally which was held on Friday, January 27,2023. The G5 Governors, Nyesom Wike, (Rivers),Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) Samuel Ortom(Benue) and Seyi Makinde(Oyo), Enugu state deputy governor, Hon(Mrs) Cecilia Ezeilo, Speaker ENHA,Rt. Hon Edward Ubosi, Enugu PDP governorship candidate, Peter Mbah, the deputy governorship candidate, Ossai, were in attendance. Abia…

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Enugu PDP campaign flag-off: G5 Govs extol Ugwuanyi, urge residents to vote party’s candidates

It was a joyous moment, on Friday, February 27, 2023, when the G-5 governors ,members and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,,Enugu state, stormed Michael Okpara square , Enugu in thousands, for the flag-off of the party’s campaign in preparation of the 2023 general elections coming up on February 25 and March 11, respectively….

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