A businessman, Mr Lawal Huwai, has asked a Customary Court in jikwoyi, Abuja, to dissolve his marriage with Promise, on grounds that the union was built on deception and falsehood. Testifying before the court on Friday, Huwai said:”I discovered four days after our marriage that our marriage was...
POLITICS
A Nigerian Human Rights lawyer, Ms Oluwafunke Adeoye, has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Waislitz Global Citizens Choice Award for her outstanding performance in the Criminal Justice sector. The Waislitz Global Citizen Awards are annual cash prizes totaling 250,000 dollars that recognises the excellence of individuals...
The Chairmen of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have rejected the recent dissolution of the party’s executives in seven states by the National Working Committee (NWC). The aggrieved chairmen on Thursday described the dissolution as “gross abuse of power” and”unacceptable”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports ...
Sen. Adams Oshiomole (APC-Edo) says the embattled Edo deputy governor, Mr Philip Shaibu is not welcome in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Oshiomole said this in Benin on Thursday when he spoke with newsmen on his reaction to the rumour of Shaibu’s planned defection from the Peoples Democratic Party...
The three Zonal and 21 Local Government Areas Chairmen of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) have defected to the APC in Kogi, an official has disclosed. M Onogwu Mohammed, Media Aide to Gov. Yahaya Bello, made the disclosure in a statement in Lokoja on Thursday. He said ...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Thursday, adjourned until Aug. 15 for hearing of an application seeking to stop prosecution of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. The court will also, on the same day, entertain an application by the...
A Chief Magistrate Court in the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Abuja has ruled that the Presiding Pastor of the House On The Rock Church, Uche Aigbe has a criminal case to answer in the unlawful possession of prohibited firearms found in his possession. The no-case submission made by the...
Politics in Nigeria can be said to be a delicate game of thorns and swords; not one of ideas and emotions, or creativity and innovation. It seems to be a deadly game, where character is not defined, and content doesn’t necessarily matter. If a person is seen as...
With about one and a quarter year to the November 2024 handover date by the incumbency governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki, the heartbeat state is already caught up in the gales of distorted political discourses and contrived intrigues. It didn’t start just now; it has been...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Barely a month after he received members of the upper bench on a courtesy visit to his office with a promise for official vehicles, Cross River State Governor, Prince Bassey Otu, has presented brand new ford edge vehicles to senior justices in the...
The suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele has asked a Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos to stop the Federal Government from further prosecuting him on the charge of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition or on any other charge for that matter. ...
Exactly one year after the August 9, 2022 polls in Kenya, there’s a new sign of hope for peace in the East African nation as the government and opposition have opened talks after the protests that greeted the elections. The talks, which begin today between President William Ruto and...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has constituted a Special National Media/Publicity Committee (SNPC) for the Nov. 11, governorship election in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Ologunagba...
A constitutional lawyer and right activist, Dr Kayode Ajulo has cautioned some Nigerians against making disparaging comments on judges sitting at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT). He said such comments were troubling and uncalled for. Ajulo said this in a message in Abuja on Tuesday which he titled: ...
Chieftains of Edo North (Afemai) People’s Democratic Party on Monday expressed their support for Gov. Godwin Obaseki against the backdrop of the current fight between him and his Deputy, Philip Shaibu. Shaibu recently approached an Abuja Federal High Court to stop Obaseki, the state Chief Judge and Edo...
The Senate has announced the composition and leadership of standing committees. The announcement was made shortly after lawmakers reconvened from their short break after confirmation of the ministerial nominees in the late hours of Monday plenary. The standing committees have Senators Solomon Adeola, (APC -Ogun) Enyinnaya Abaribe...
The Senate has confirmed 45 ministerial nominees out of the 48 nominees forwarded to it by President Bola Tinubu. The confirmation followed the consideration and approval of the nominees during Monday’s plenary. The nominees include Sen. Abubakar Kyari (Borno ), Abubakar Momoh (Edo), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Prof. Joseph Utsev...
The Deputy Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Bayelsa, retired Commodore Benjamin Nathus, has assured the people of the state that the party will end their years of suffering caused by bad leadership. Nathus spoke shortly after the governorship candidate, Mr Udengs Eradiri, officially presented him...
Senate has resolved into a close session, following a motion at plenary on Monday to suspend screening of Mr Festus Kayemo, nominee from Delta State. The motion, which generated altercation among senators was sponsored by Sen. Dalington Nwokocha(LP-Abia). Nwokocha had raised the motion for suspension of Kayemo’s...
One Roima Abdulkadir on Monday applied to divorce her husband, Ahmed Abdulkadir, at the Area Court, Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, over alleged lack of maintenance. The applicant, whose address was not given, told the court that she wanted to divorce her husband, because he was not providing food for the...