INEC TO DISPLAY CANDIDATE LISTS FOR 2027 GOVERNORSHIP AND ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS ON SATURDAY. (PHOTO).

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 INEC to Display Candidate Lists for 2027 Governorship and Assembly Elections on Saturday The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Saturday, August 29, publish the lists of candidates nominated by political parties for the February 6, 2027, governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections. Governorship elections will be held in 28 states, while state Houses of Assembly polls will take place in all 36 states of the federation. According to the electoral timetable, governorship elections are scheduled in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, Kwara, Benue, Plateau, Niger, Nasarawa, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states. No governorship elections will be conducted in Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, Edo, Bayelsa, Anambra, Imo and Kogi states, where polls were held at different times under the staggered electoral cycle. INEC said the publication of the candidate lists ...

FORMER MALI COUP LEADER AMADOU,STARTS HUNGER STRIKE.

Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo attends a ceremony as former parliament speaker Dioncounda Traore (unseen) is sworn in as Mali's interim president in the captial Bamako, April 12, 2012. REUTERS/Malin Palm                          General Amadou Sanogo,former Mali coup leader starts hunger strike over his conditions while on detention.Two years ago he allowed Islamist to seize it's desert north.He was arrested and chaged with complicity in kidnapping last November with regard to the disappearance during the 2012 coup of dozens of paratroopers,loyal to president Amadou Toumani Toure.Authorities have discovered 30 bodies,some of them wearing military uniforms,in mass graves near the headquarters of the coup leaders at the military barracks in the town of Kati,just outside the capital Bamako.He is protesting over his transfer to Lakeside town of selingue prison,150km{90miles} south of Bamako.His lawyer said this had left him cut off from his family and legal advisers,deprived him of medical care and placed him in danger.''He is going to observe a hunger strike and also to abstain from medical treatment''.The current President,Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,elected last August,is under pressure to restore the state's authority over the army and to root out pockets of remaining Islamist rebels in the north.A French led military intervention last year helped break the Islamist grip over the desert region.

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