The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Usman Baba has filed a motion before a Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge the ‘contempt proceedings and committal order’ brought against him. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO) CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja....
POLITICS
The Labour Party in Ogun State has expelled the party’s Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Doyin Okupe, for failure to perform his financial membership status in the past six months contrary to the dictate of the party’s constitution. Okupe was dismissed alongside Abayomi Collins, Abel Olaleye,...
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday promised to create new jobs to ensure economic prosperity, if given the mandate in 2023 poll. Tinibu said this in Yenagoa at the APC presidential rally. He said: “Prosperity is here, that employment you yearn for...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, says Nigerians should ensure they vote in committed leaders that will take the country to the next level. Sanwo-Olu gave the advice at a special prayer session toward a hitch-free 2023 General Elections for Lagos state and Nigeria at the Lagos Central Mosque,...
The Atiku Grassroot Movement (AGM), a support group, has denied allegations that former Vice-Presidential Atiku Abubakar was responsible for the disruption of Gov. Samuel Ortom’s Senatorial campaign launch in Gboko. Mr Joseph Asawa, the state AGM Publicity Coordinator, said this at a news conference on Thursday in Makurdi. “This...
The Independent Campaign Group (ICG) of the entertainment sector for Tinubu-Shettima and Sanwo-Olu -Hamzat, on Thursday called for unity to attain victory in the 2023 general elections. The group made the call during a meeting at the APC House, Ikeja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the...
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream and governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in Akwa Ibom State Senator Bassey Akpan has been sentenced to 42 years in a correctional facility by a Federal High Court, Uyo for corruption. Senator Akpan, who was prosecuted by...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Nasarawa State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed it will deliver the state to Atiku Abubakar, Presidential candidate of the party. Leaders of the party in the state stated this on Thursday at Awe Local Government Area (LGA), during the continuation...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday, produced Form CF001, containing WAEC-GCE certificate and Secondary School Testimonial of Gov. Ademola Adeleke before the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Osogbo. This was in compliance with the order of Justice Tertsea Kume, the Tribunal Chairman, on Nov. 25. The...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, has adjourned a N1 billion defamatory suit filed by Dr Gabriel Ogbechie against Mr Ned Nwoko until Feb 27 for hearing. Justice Chizoba Oji adjourned the matter after counsel for the parties stated their positions on their resolved to explore out-of-court...
Barr Kayode Ajulo, a Constitutional Lawyer, has called for the appointment of auxiliary judges to decide cases in courts in a bid to stop some cases going up to the Supreme Court. The legal practitioner told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday that there were...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has nullified the Abia All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship primary election held on May 29. Delivering judgment in the matter on Thursday, Justice Binta Nyako also ordered that a fresh primary election be conducted within 14 days. The judgment was sequel to a...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, dismissed a suit filed by Mr Jimi Adebisi-Lawal, a candidate of the PDP against Mr Oladipupo Adebutu, with respect to the Ogun PDP governorship ticket. Lawal and Adebutu are both claiming to be the governorship candidate of the party for the 2023...
A High Court Sitting in Minna, the Niger State Capital, has issued a warrant of arrest on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Faruk Yahaya for contempt. Also to be arrested include Commandant Training and Doctrine Command, Minna, Major General Olugbenga Olabanji for a similar offense. The presiding...
Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has cautioned Nigerians against vote- trading in 2023 general election. Lawan said this when he received members of an election observation group, Polling Unit Ambassadors of Nigerian (PUAN) on a sensitisation road walk at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. The Senate President, who was...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – No fever than 29 persons including minors have been freed from both the Sokoto State Correctional Center and Remand Home. Those freed got their relief courtesy of the “EU-UNICEF,. facilitated by the Sokoto State Chief Judge, Justice Muhammad Saidu Sifawa, as empowered by law...
The Northwest women wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has promised huge votes and adequate support for the Tinubu/Shettima presidential ambition in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The APC northwest women team made the promise while flagging off their campaign on Wednesday in Katsina State. Speaking during the...
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has promised to provide enough funds for education, praying that Nigerians will never witness a repeat of APC’s government beyond 2023, which he says brought untold hardship on Nigerians. The PDP presidential candidate made this known at the...
The Court of Appeal in Ibadan has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by Mr Joel Chuks and his company on his N700 million property that was taken over by Access Bank due to non-payment of loan debt. Chuks and his company, Joel Chuks Venture Ltd., had filed an...
The Court of Appeal on Wednesday fixed Feb.8 for to hear Abdulrasheed Maina’s appeal challenging the judgment of a trial court sentencing him to eight years imprisonment for N2 billion pension fraud The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Maina before Justice Okon Abang of a federal high...