The procedural groundwork has been laid by the Senate for the establishment of a tribunal that will be responsible for the stringent implementation of the Audit report after it has been approved by both chambers of the National Assembly. The importance of establishing an Audit Report Tribunal was brought to the forefront of discussion in […]
Kashim Shettima’s election as the next vice president, according to Borno Governor Babagana Zulum, would help his administration’s workload as Borno recovers from insurgency. At a Sallah luncheon for stakeholders in Maiduguri on Friday, Mr. Zulum made the announcement in the presence of the vice-president-elect. According to the governor, Borno’s government and people now have […]
Fear swept Umuonyeashi, Nsokpo Ogbaku in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State on Friday morning after a mechanic named Chigozie Anumwee was allegedly fatally stabbed by a suspected cultist named Chima, also known as Jasper, over a minor argument. Jasper, who is from Amakohia Ubi in the Owerri West LGA but resides with his […]
The Benue Youth Forum, BYF has vehemently accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being responsible for the widespread of insecurity in Benue State and Nigeria as a whole. The youths said it read with utter shock and disappointment a statement by Buhari wherein he blamed Governor Samuel Ortom for the Federal Government’s inability to protect lives […]
The motion ex-parte filed by the Labour Party candidate, Gbadegbo Patrick Rhodes-Vivour, for substituted service on the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was approved by the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The Tribunal issued the directive after learning that Sanwo-Olu had been avoiding receiving the petition’s service from Rhodes-Vivour through his attorney, Olagbade Benson. Read […]
The UN reported that in the ongoing conflict in Sudan between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at least 180 people have died and 1,800 have been injured. Volker Perthes, the UN’s special envoy to Sudan, noted that the country’s situation is “very fluid, so it’s very difficult to say where […]
As non-Executive Chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Senator Ifeanyi Ararume has been reinstated by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja. On the grounds that the President’s action was arbitrary, unlawful, and illegal, the court declared the businessman’s dismissal as unlawful and overturned his removal from office on […]
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and members of the PDP’s state executive committee are not subject to suspension or expulsion by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) due to alleged anti-party activities, according to the Federal High Court in Abuja. In his ruling, Justice Inyang Ekwo stated that suspending or expelling Wike and other PDP […]
Sen. Danjuma Goje, who represents Gombe Central in the National Assembly, was kicked out of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the local party leadership in Gombe State’s Kashere Ward of the Akko local government area on Tuesday due to alleged anti-party activities. According to a report, the party at the ward level in Kashere […]
In relation to the governorship election, the Oyo State Election Petition Tribunal has received two petitions, while the House of Assembly election has received four. The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and its candidate, Adeniran Oluwaseyi, filed the first petition challenging the outcome of the governorship election, while the Action Alliance (AA) and its candidate, Babatunde […]