The Committee of Diaspora Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised Sen. Godswill Akpabio, the Senate President and Tajudeen Abass, Speaker, House of Representatives, to be magnanimous in victory. The committee gave the advice in a statement jointly signed by Prof. Adesegun Labinjo and Mr Bola Babarinde,...
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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...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The factional deputy speaker of Ogazi’s camp, Mohammed Oyanki, in the raging crisis that engulfed Nasarawa State house of assembly since last week has dumped the embattled Speaker, Daniel Ogah Ogazi. Two other members who also dumped Ogazi and were sworn in today included...
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...
Mr Emmanuel Emeruwa of the Labour Party (LP), representing Aba South State Constituency, has emerged the Speaker of the eighth Abia House of Assembly. Another LP lawmaker, Mr Okezie Augustine, representing Umuahia East Constituency, also emerged the Deputy Speaker of the house. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
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...
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to introduce palliative measures to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal on Nigerians. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Rep. Sani Madaki(NNPP-Kano) on the floor of the House in Abuja on Wednesday. Presenting...
Malam Haruna Dangyatin (APC-Miga) has been elected as the Speaker of the 8th Jigawa House of Assembly. This followed his nomination by Malam Hamza Ibrahim (APC-Malam-madori) and secondment by Malam Kabir Ibrahim (APC-Birnin Kudu) shortly after the proclamation of the Assembly by the Clerk on Wednesday in Dutse. The...
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...
Following the resignation of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, his seat has been declared vacant by the incumbent Speaker of the House of Representative, Rep Tajudeen Abbas. The declaration followed Gbajabiamila’s letter of resignation in Abuja on Wednesday at the plenary under personal...
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...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The immediate past Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, has congratulated Sen. Godswill Akpabio on his emergence as the President of the 10th Senate. Omo-Agege, in a statement by his media aide, Mr. Sunny Areh, expressed confidence in Akpabio’s “leadership qualities and drive”. He...
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...
A member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Joshua Gana (PDP-Niger) says the 10th Assembly will not be a ‘rubber stamp’ legislature for the Executive. Gana made known in an interview with newsmen on the sideline of the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday in Abuja. The lawmaker, who represents Lavun,...
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...
“It was a hard- fought battle of political strategy, mastery and networking, that recognises distinction, class and content. You are a man of quality and not quantity, as others who tried to upstage the applecart, by sheer politics of money, ethnicity and parochialism were wont to provoke. You stood...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) says the emergence of Sen. Godswill Akpabio as President of the Senate is a hallmark of APC’s principle of inclusiveness. Okechukwu also congratulated Akpabio on his emergence as senate president of the 10th assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “The emergence...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the new leadership of the National Assembly, saying that “the election of Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio, CON and Rt. Honourable Tajudeen Abbas as the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 10th National...