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Imo 2023: INEC has deployed nine RECs for Saturday’s poll — Chairman. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at a stakeholders

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said there are no registered voters in 38 voting units in Imo State and two in

Aviation workers in Nigeria have blacklisted flights to Imo State following the manhandling of the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Businessman and former lawmaker, Ben Murray-Bruce, has stated that a nationwide strike is not what Nigeria needs right now. The African Examiner recalls that the labour union had on Tuesday announced that there will be a national strike next week. Reacting, Murray Bruce in a statement issued on his social media handle

A group, Imo Patriot League and other Civil Society Organisations, on Wednesday, asked the president of Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, to reconsider the decision of the organised labour to seize the electricity supply in the state for the past eight days.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has stated that the Saturday’s governorship election in Imo State is unnecessary because the widespread violence has already planted fear in the electorates and the results of the election may not change anything. This was stated by The NLC Head of International Relations, Uchenna Ekwe, in an interview on Channels TV on Wednesday. According to Ekwe, the Imo people have been afflicted by violence, and the election would produce nothing.

Unions in the aviation industry have directed the withdrawal of all flights to Owerri, Imo State, from all airports in Nigeria.  This is in response to the directive of the Labour Union, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) following last week's brutalisation of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, in Owerri.…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it has deployed 4,650 personnel as well as sniffer dogs for the governorship election in the

Ahead of the Nov. 11 governorship election, the General Officer Commanding 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Hassan Dada, has flagged off

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State and three of his opponents were absent at a meeting on Wednesday for parties to sign a peace accord ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. The two other candidates absent at the event are Athan Achonu of the Labour Party; Tony Ejiogu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance; and Ben Odunze of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Ben Odunze. The event was organised by the National Peace Committee in Owerri, the state capital ahead of the November 11 governorship ...