Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has received more People’s Democratic Party (PDP) defectors into the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the struggle for the Lugard House intensifies. The defectors, led by Mr A.K. Salihu, a former two-term House of Representatives member, Mr Udu Malik, former caretaker chairman of Okehi...
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Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has asked politicians in the state not to prepare for violence in the Nov. 11 governorship election, saying the poll is about votes and not guns. The governor spoke during the 25th State Security Council meeting in Government House, Yenagoa, on Friday. ...
A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, on Friday, refused to grant bail to Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate, Lagos State, Frederick Nwajagu, charged with terrorism. According to Justice Yetunde Adesanya, the court is constrained to refuse Nwajagu’s bail application based on the seriousness of the...
The Senate says it will on Monday begin the screening of the 28 ministerial nominees proposed by President Bola Tinubu. Spokesperson of the Senate, Sen. Adeyemi Adaramodu (APC-Ekiti), disclosed this while addressing newsmen after the list of the nominees was read in the upper chamber on Thursday. Adaramodu said...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called for the patience and understanding of Nigerians, particularly the youths, assuring them that the hardships of the moment will eventually give way for a more prosperous, equitable and inclusive economy. President Tinubu gave the assurance on Thursday at the State House while...
Sen. Adamu Bulkachuwa has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), the Department of State Services (DSS) and others of colluding with his political enemies to harass him. Bulkachuwa told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, in a suit filed against the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, fixed Oct. 25 for judgment in a suit filed by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited against the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) in respect of its operations in Oil Mining Leases 67, 68, 70 and 104.c Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed...
Wike, El-Rufia, Umahi, Alake, 24 others unveiled as minister-nominees in Tinubu’s list to the senate
Wike, El-Rufia, Umahi, Alake, 24 others unveiled as minister-nominees in Tinubu’s list to the senate
President Bola Tinubu has sent to Senate, list of 28 ministerial nominees for consideration and confirmation. The list of the nominees is contained in a letter addressed to President of Senate , Godswill Akpiabio and read at plenary on Thursday. Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu,Femi...
Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has dismissed a request filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) seeking a 14-day extended detention order for the suspended Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. The DSS based its application on purported new...
The Labour Party candidate in the November 11 governorship election in Imo, Sen. Athan Achonu, has faulted plans by the state government to conduct council polls few months before the election. Achonu made his stance known while addressing newsmen in Owerri on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Northwest zone have endorsed former Kano state governor Abdullahi Ganduje for national chairmanship of the party. This is contained in a press release jointly signed by all the seven APC state chairmen from the zone comprising Kaduna, Kano,...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a suit seeking to invalidate the nomination of Sen. Lawal Usman as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate for the Feb. 25 Kaduna State Central Senatorial election. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that the suit, filed by Mr Ibrahim...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Wednesday, described as despicable, the July 25 altercation between the Department of State Security Service and officials of Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) before a Federal High Court Lagos. NBA President, Mr Yakubu Maikyau (SAN) has consequently called for disciplinary measures of officers involved...
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Tuesday fixed Sept. 22, to deliver judgment on a fundamental right enforcement suit filed by the former governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the court on July 7, restrained the Kano State...
The Kogi Government on Tuesday described the Nov. 11 governorship election in the state as a referendum on the administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, made this known while receiving the leadership of the Ododo Support Organisation led by its Director...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, deserves the fullest protection of the law as a Nigerian citizen. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja while reacting to the recent...
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is calling for an investigation into the reported terrorist attack on its presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Yola, Adamawa. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, made the call in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja. Ologunagba said that the PDP...
Suspected hoodlums have reportedly set ablaze the Campaign Office of Murtala Yakubu-Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Governorship Candidate in the forthcoming election in Kogi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the office, which is located on John Holt road, near Paparanda Square, Lokoja, was gutted...