A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, fixed March 28 for ruling in a bail application filed by suspended DCP Abba Kyari and others. Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after counsel to the prosecution and defence argued their applications for and against the bail plea. The News Agency...
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Suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendant, ACP Sunday Ubia, on Monday, asked a Federal High Court, Abuja, to admit them to bail. Kyari and Ubia, through their lawyer, Mahmud Magaji, told Justice Emeka Nwite while arguing the bail application Magaji, who said the offences with which Kyari and...
Mr Emmanuel Macham, a youth activist and chieftain of the PDP in Plateau, has attributed the success of the party in the Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency by-election to reconciliatory efforts by Sen Iyorchia Ayu, the national chairman. Macham, in a statement on Sunday in Jos, said that Ayu’s visit...
Thousands of youths has again stormed Calabar, Cross River, to sensitise others on Gov. Yahaya Bello’s presidential ambition. The youths reiterated that they were ready, no matter what happened among politicians, to install Bello as the next President of Nigeria. The youths, from all over the country, especially the...
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has absolved himself from supporting efforts to undermine the March 26 national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Kalu said this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja, said, “I have read the unfortunate accusations leveled against me...
Yobe’s Gov. Mai Mala Buni remains the Acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). The declaration was made in Abuja on Saturday by Alhaji Garba Muhammed, a chieftain of the APC. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it has not fallen short of the law in anyway with regards to the letter it sent to the Independent National Electoral Commision (INEC) to monitor its forthcoming National Convention. Mr Ismail Ahmed, the Natioal Youth Leader in the APC Caretaker...
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and Presidential hopeful, and the Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, on Friday met in Abuja. This was disclosed by the Special Assistant to the Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwaze, who shared photos from the meeting. He, however, failed...
A Yaba Magistrates’ court in Lagos on Friday, ordered that a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Omininikoron, be remanded for 30 days in Ikoyi custodial centre for alleged murder and rape of 22-year-old girl, Oluwabamise Ayankole. Details coming soon….
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi, Mr Osita Ugoji, has advised politicians to refrain from defecting at the slightest challenge to their political ambition. Ugoji, who was reacting to the sacking of Gov. David Umahi and his Deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe of Ebonyi, by a...
An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Niger State, Alhaji Nma Kolo, has expressed optimism on the ability of the Acting Chairman of the party, Gov, Abubakar Bello, to organize and conduct a free, fair and credible National Convention of the party. Bello took over the leadership of the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has fixed its National Caucus meeting for Monday March 14, and its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting for Tuesday, March 15. The party which disclosed this in two separate statements by its National Secretary, Mr Samuel Anyanwu, in Abuja,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday prayed the Federal High Court, Abuja to transfer the fresh trial of former Abia governor and two others in an alleged N7.1 billion fraud to Lagos. The application seeking the transfer was brought pursuant to Sections 19, 22 and 45...
An Upper Area Court in Makurdi on Thursday ordered that a herbalist, Eze Okereke, 41, be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged defiling a 15-year-old deaf-mute neighbour’s daughter. The police charged Okereke with defilement. However, when the case came up for mention no plea was taking for want...
A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Mrs Patience Key, has promised to make Nigeria an industrial hub, if elected in the 2023 presidential election. Key made the promise on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), when she arrived...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed March 17 for an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting. This is according to a notice of meeting signed by Gov. Abubakar Bello, the Acting Chairman of the APC CECPC, Sen. Ken Nnamani (South-East) and Mrs Stella...
No fewer than 20 lawyers have expressed desire to defend the suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Musa Shafiu, a legal practitioner, who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday, on behalf of other lawyers, said the lawyers are ready to defend Kyari in a suit filed by the National Drug Law...
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State believes the All Progressives Congress (APC) is the best choice for Nigerians ahead of the 2023 election, saying the party will clinch the presidential seat. The governor spoke on Wednesday as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, arguing that other parties cannot...
Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi on Wednesday in Abakaliki said he has no regrets defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The governor stated this while addressing members and supporters of the party during a solidarity rally held at the Udensi Water Fountain Round about in Abakaliki. Umahi,...
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has fixed March 31, June 8 and June 9 for trial of a former vice chairman and six councillors of the Kuje Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory. Mr Duda Ismaila, Mr Yunusa Salihu, Mr Dantani Musa, Mr Maikasuwa Magaji, Mr Samson...