Ms Ijeoma Osamor, Broadcast Journalist with DAAR Communications Plc on Friday testified in the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC). Osamor, who anchors a programme in the Africa Independent Television (AIT) “Democracy Today” was subpoenaed as ‘7th witness (PW 7) for Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) . Obi and...
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The Labour Party in Enugu State says it will call 36 witnesses to testify against Mr Peter Mbah of the People Democratic Party (PDP) at the Governorship Election Tribunal over alleged certificate forgery. The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal is hearing the petition filed by Edeoga of the Labour Party...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Corruption (ICPC) on Thursday arraigned Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), his three sons and a daughter in-law . They were arraigned in a 17-count charge bordering on official corruption, abuse of office and forgery.before Justice...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmood has tendered documents before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in respect of the petition of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The documents were tendered on Thursday through Mrs Morenikeji Tairu, Deputy Director,...
The Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday, disqualified a witness,, Erastus Ofoma, subpoenaed by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) from testifying against Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat. The Chairman of the three-man tribunal committee, Justice Arum Igyen-Ashom ordered Ofoma to step...
By MARTINS OGBEBE, Asaba – The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, the Delta State capital has adjourned hearing in the 79 pages petition of the Social Democratic Party governorship candidate, Mr Kenneth Gbagi against Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s victory. Oborevwori, who was the candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, was declared the...
The Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi on Thursday tendered 18,000 blurred polling units results of the Feb 25 election before the presidential election petition court (PEPC). Obi and his Labour Party (LP) are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election which brought president...
The trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, on Wednesday suffered another set-back following the absence of her lawyer, Mr Onwuka Egwu. Ojukwu is standing trial before a Lagos High Court at the Tafawa Balewa Square, on a nine-count charge...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to pay Media Rights Agenda (MRA) N1 million as damages for wrongful denial of access to information and directed the apex bank to also make available to the organization...
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Wednesday admitted in evidence statistics reports of inspectors of the election. In a petition marked CA/PEPC/05/2023, Atiku Abubakar and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are challenging the outcome of the Feb.25 presidential election which brought Tinubu as the winner. The respondents are Independent...
A housewife, Maryam Musa on Wednesday dragged Kabiru Sulaiman, her husband before a Shari’a court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna over alleged assault and humiliation. Musa told the court that Sulaiman assaulted and sent her packing to her parents house after a misunderstanding. “He choked and hit me in the...
By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin – Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, convicted and sentenced nine internet fraudsters to jail. The EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Benin. The convicts according...
Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Thursday appear before the Presidential Election Petition Court Thursday. This was stated on Tuesday by Chris Uche, SAN lead counsel to Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party in their ongoing petition. In a petition marked...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 45-year-old businessman, Emeka Orisakwe, to three life sentences for defiling his three underaged children. The minors were aged eight, eight and six. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution...
Magistrate Folashade Oyekan of the Wuse Zone II Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday ordered that a 37-year-old businessman, Hembe Donald be remanded in a correction centre for allegedly forging a high court affidavit, birth certificate and others. Oyekan ordered the defendant’s remand after he pleaded not guilty to the four-count...
Mr Yisa Usman, a Deputy Director with Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was, on Tuesday, arraigned on allegations bordering on threatening Mrs Raheemat Oloyede on phone with intent to blackmail her husband, Prof. Ishaq, the board’s registrar. Usman was arraigned by the police on behalf of the Federal...
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Saturday viewed the first video evidence presented before them by Mr Peter Obi and his party, Labour party. Obi and his Labour Party (LP) are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election which brought president Bola Tinubu into power Respondents...
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Saturday dismissed the application filed by the Labour Party and Mr Peter Obi seeking an order to question INEC on the technology it deployed for the conduct of the general elections. Obi and LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging...
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has called two additional witnesses to further prove his allegation of malpractice at the Feb. 25 election. The two make a total of 18 witnesses he has so far called out of 100 witnesses planned for the exercise....
A Federal High Court, Lafia has been urged to stop Alhaji Balarabe Abdullahi (APC-Umaisha/Ugya) and Mr Jacob Kudu from parading themselves as speaker and deputy speaker of Nasarawa State House of Assembly. The court was also urged to make “an order nullifying the purported oath of office taken on the 6th...