A High Court has restrained the Kano State Government from going ahead with the planned demolition of houses located on the BUK Road in Gwale Local Government of the state. The court granted the exparte motion application dated July 4, moved by Ibrahim Adamu, Counsel to the plaintiffs on...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the Labour Party (LP) has no ground to call for the sack of its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, over the outcome of the 2023 general election. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi stated this when he spoke with...
Gov. Ahmad Aliyu of Sokoto state has inaugurated six-member Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the sales, auction and allocations of government assets by the immediate past administration of former Gov. Aminu Tambuwal. The commission has retired Justice Mu’azu Bindiga a former acting Chief Judge of Gombe state as Chairman...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, restrained Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi and the acting Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, from arresting or detaining Alhaji Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s candidate for the Nov. 11 governorship election in the state. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a...
An Abuja Federal High Court has ordered security agencies to provide maximum security for Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Candidate in the November 11 governorship poll in Kogi. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order on Thursday in a ruling in an ex-parte application brought before him by...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Thursday, received PDP defectors from Olamaboro Local Government Area, led by Sen. Attai Aidoko-Ali, to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The governor, while receiving the defectors in Government House, Lokoja, the state capital, expressed satisfaction with the level of unity existing among the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against the Department of State Services (DSS). Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that Kanu’s suit lacked merit and ought to be...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (lNEC) on Wednesday objected the adoption of the deposition made by one of its staff who appeared as witness before the Governorship Election Petition Court in Kaduna. The witness, Mr Bonet Gwaza, a Senior System Analyst with INEC, had on July 11 presented some...
A retired Court of Appeal judge, Justice Peter Ige, says the appellate court needs more than the statutory 60 days to determine appeals from Election Petition Tribunals. Ige stated this on Wednesday in Ibadan during a valedictory court session held in his honour at the Court of Appeal, Ibadan...
The APC Governorship Candidate in Kogi, Ahmed Usman Ododo has promised to consolidate on the initiatives of Gov. Yahaya Bello when elected in the state’s Nov. 11 governorship poll. Ododo gave the assurance at the Official Unveiling of “Okun United for Ododo Project 2023”, on Wednesday in Kabba, Kabb-Bunu...
In the next few weeks the firepower at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) will ebb as the five-member panel of the court, headed by Justice Haruna Tsammani, has sent lawyers and petitioners back to their chambers to produce their final written addresses. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Attempts by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to arraign its suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hundu Yunusa-Ari, before Adamawa State High Court 9 sitting in Yola, suffeted a step back on Wednesday. The trial Judge, Justice Benjamin Manji, drew the attention of the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN,...
Sen. Smart Adeyemi, a former lawmaker said on Wednesday in Abuja that he would approach the Court of Appeal to challenge the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja which affirmed the primary election of Ahmed Ododo. Delivering judgment in the suit marked FHC/CS/556/2023, Justice James Omotosho held that Adeyemi’s...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday tendered to the Kano State Governorship Election Tribunal 21 Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines. The machines were used in 21 polling stations in 10 Local Government Areas (LGAs), Tudun-Wada, Gaya, Gezawa, Bunkure, Bebeji, Ungogo, Ajingi, Warawa, Karaye and Garko. The...
By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the forthcoming Gubernatorial election in the state, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu-Ajaka, are currently engaged in a bitter war of words that may assume a frightening dimension. Governor Bello had warned...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Tuesday, warned individuals spreading falsehood to prepare to face the law. Bello, who gave the warning in a statement in Lokoja through the Information Commissioner, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, expressed dismay over the unfortunate utterances heating the state’s political atmosphere. The governor was particular...
An Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff member, Mr Emmanuel Damis, on Tuesday appeared before the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal as subpoenaed witness and tendered Mr Peter Mbah’s qualifications. Damis, Petitioner’s Witness three, works at the Legal Drafting and Clearance Department, INEC headquarters, Abuja. The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal...
Former Minister of Aviation, Mrs Stella Oduah says she is not aware of any fresh criminal charge against her by the Police in the name of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).s Oduah made the assertion on Tuesday in Abuja through her lawyer, Mr James Onoja, SAN while addressing newsmen....
A Family Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Tuesday ordered that a skit maker Maruf Abdullahi, aka ” Trinity” be remanded in Agodi correction centre for allegedly sexually exploiting a 10-year old girl. The Magistrate, Mrs P. O. Adetuyibi ordered Abdullahi, 31, Isiaka Ahmed, 40, and his wife Rofiat Ahmed, 29,...
Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State on Tuesday, prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja to dismiss the preliminary objection filed by the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) against his N20 billion suit over alleged certificate forgery. M Mbah’s counsel, Christopher Oshomegie, SAN, urged Justice Inyang Ekwo to dismiss the...