 Good evening and thanks for joining us. This is News Now. I'm Laura Tachiogo. We begin tonight's news with this report that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced a date for the release of the final lists of presidential and governorship candidates. Professor Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this at a meeting organized by the Center for Democracy and Development in Abuja. He noted that while the final lists of presidential candidates would be out on September 20, that of governorship candidates would be released on October 4. The commission tasked candidates on issue-based campaigns in the interest of the much needed development in the country. The general election will enter the next critical stages, beginning actually from today, September. In the next 19 days, that is on the 20th of September 2022, the commission will publish the final list of candidates for national elections, presidential candidates and their animates, senatorial candidates and candidates for federal constituencies, that is House of Representatives, as provided by section 32, subsection 1 of the Electoral Act 2022. This will be followed on 4 October 2022 by the publication of the final list of candidates for state elections, governorship and state houses of assembly elections. Campaign in public and political parties will officially commence on the 20th of September 2022, as provided by section 94-1 of the Electoral Act 2020.