An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday granted bail in the sum of N20 million to Bola Fasasi, a co-defendant in a $156,700 fraud case involving Macmillan Nigeria Publisher, Prof. Adesanya Adelekan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adelekan is still at large, according to the Economic...
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The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Friday presented Dr Yusuf Baba-Ahmed as his running mate for the 2023 General Elections. Obi made the announcement at a news conference with the theme “Journey to Nigeria’s Rebirth Begins Today” in Abuja . According to him, the party is...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a fake Army General Bolarinwa Abiodun, whose real name is Hassan Ayinde to seven years in prison for impersonation and N266.5 million fraud. The convict also disguised as the Chief Of Army Staff (COAS) to carry out the N266.5 million fraud....
Labour Party flagbearer, Peter Obi has said the 2023 Presidential elections will be based on saving the country and not on one’s turn, ethnicity, or religion. Speaking while fielding questions on Arise Tv Morning Show on Thursday, the presidential candidate of Labour Party said it would be based on...
The West Minister Magistrates Court, the United Kingdom on Thursday accepted that David Ukpo, the kidney donor in the case of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice is not a minor Ekweremadu and his wife were arrested by the British police on June 23 on...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been asked to stop the All Progressives Congress (APC) from replacing Kabiru Masari as the running mate to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Shortly after Tinubu emerged as the APC flagbearer, the party submitted Masari’s name to the Independent National...
The Oyo State High Court in Ibadan on Wednesday fixed July 26 for judgment in a suit filed by Rauf Olaniyan, the state Deputy Governor, challenging the impeachment process served on him by the state House of Assembly. Justice Ladiran Akintola adjourned the case for judgment after the submission...
By JACOB KUBEKA – With barely 10 days to the Governorship election in Osun state, South-West Nigeria, there are fears that the activities of cultists and political thugs in some local government areas could threaten the peaceful and credible conduct of the election, if not contained. This warning is...
A divorce-seeking businesswoman, Olayinka Ajanaku, told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday that her husband was fond of making their 10-year-old son gulp alcohol limitlessly. Olayinka told the court that the greatest mistake of her life was falling in love with her estranged husband’s Akinola...
The U. S. Central District Court in California has again postponed the sentencing of a Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi, for the multi-million-dollar fraud charges he has pleaded guilty to. Arrested in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate (UAE) in June 2020, and subsequently flown to...
Mr Tochukwu Okorie, the embattled Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi chapter has described his alleged suspension by some members of the State Executive Committee (SEC) as a ‘huge joke.’ Okorie, at a press briefing on Tuesday in Abakaliki, noted that the allegation of financial impropriety leveled...
Popular businessman, Femi Otedola, has visited the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr. Bola Tinubu in Paris, France. The APC presidential candidate, who is currently in France, has been holding a series of meetings with personalities, his spokesman, Tunde Rahman, stated. Otedola’s visit to Tinubu followed...
A Trader, Sandra Iyenanye, on Tuesday approached an Igando Customary Court, seeking dissolution of the long distance marriage to her husband Mr Vestus Iyenanye. The Petitioner, a resident of No. 8, Jaiyeoba St., urged the court to grant her a divorce from her husband on grounds of abandonment, cheating...
The State Working Committee (SWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi has suspended its Chairman, Mr Tochukwu Okorie, over alleged gross misconduct. The party’s Deputy State Chairman, Mr Emmanuel Nworie, told newsmen after the committee’s emergency meeting on Monday in Abakaliki that the suspension was for a...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – The APC Governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Sen. Uba Sani, has revealed why he picked Gov. Nasir El-Rufai’s deputy, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, as his running mate for the 2023 gubernatorial elections. Sani in a statement on Monday, said Balarabe had contributed immensely to the...
Tinubu Support Organisation, has endorsed the Kaduna State Governor, Malma Nasir El-Rufai, as the best choice of running mate for the All Progressives Congress’ presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The Director-General of the Tinubu Support Organisation, Aminu Suleiman, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Monday. Alhaji Suleiman...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State on Monday unveiled its 2nd female deputy governorship candidate, Mrs. Emana Ambrose Awana ahead of the 2023 election in the state. Mrs. Awana’s nomination as the deputy governorship candidate comes nearly 30 years after Mrs....
The money laundering trial of a former Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, was on Monday, stalled before a Federal High Court in Lagos as the trial court did not sit. The trial which was fixed for continuation on Monday, could not proceed as the trial judge Justice Chukwujekwu...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Borno State has suspended six party officials involved in an unlawful assembly of some party members, who claimed to have suspended the state chairman and other party officials in an attempt to cause confusion and disunity in the...
The Nigeria Democracy Defence Watch has appealed to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Sen. Bola Tinubu, its presidential candidate against presenting a Muslim/Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election. The group made the appeal in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari titled: “APC’s Muslim/Muslim Ticket in Nigeria’s 2023...