PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Ahead of the 2023 gubernatorial primaries of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Gershom Bassey representing Cross River South Senatorial District has unveiled a 10 point economic agenda on restoration and development blueprint to rebuild the state and put it on sound footings. According to...
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A legal practitioner, Musa Abdullahi, has dragged the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), demanding a N200 million compensation over allegations bordering on epileptic power supply. Abdullahi, who filed the suit marked: NSHC/SD/27/2022, also prayed the court to give an order, in the alternative, directing a six-month bill-free period for...
A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Osun, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, has withdrawn from the party’s primary slated for Tuesday. Addressing a news conference at his campaign office on Monday in Osogbo, Ogunbiyi, said it was difficult for him to come to the conclusion of withdrawing...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State on Monday inaugurated a 13 member Administration of Criminal Justice (ACJL) Committee to ensure speedy dispensation of all criminal cases in the state. The ACJL committee, through speedy trials of criminal cases will also help decongest the crowded correctional center in the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked the rumours making the rounds on social media that President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the party’s caretaker committee and its chairman, Mai Mala Buni. The National Secretary of APC’s Caretaker Committee, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, who disclosed...
Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered that embattled police cop, DCP Abba Kyari and six others be remanded in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) till March 14. Kyari was arraigned on Monday morning before Justice Emeka Nwite where he pleaded not guilty to charges...
Suspended police officer Abba Kyari on Monday pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges brought against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The NDLEA had filed eight counts of hard drugs trafficking against Mr Kyari, who is also wanted in the United States for his relationship...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday, stopped President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Senate President from tampering with the newly amended Electoral Act 2022. Justice Inyang Ekwo in a ruling on an ex parte application by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) agreed that the...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had registered a total of 539,920 members in the state through the ongoing e-registration process. Governor Obaseki stated this while addressing party leaders, drawn from all the 18 Local Government Areas of the state, in Benin....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has clarified that it was yet to release time for the 2023 general election. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, who made the clarification in a statement on Sunday, said the timetable being circulated online was fake...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Chairmen of the 23 Local Government Chapters of the Àll Progressives Congress APC in Sokoto State have insisted that, there is not faction in the party as far as they are concerned. Addressing newsmen on Saturday at the party secretariat, the secretary of...
Mrs Bukola Ajayi, a legal practitioner, says adultery is the most common reason divorce-seeking spouses have cited for the dissolution of their marriages. “Ninety-five per cent of those seeking a divorce in courts made allegations of adultery against their spouses,’’ she said. Adultery is the most difficult breach of trust...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL,Sokoto A group under the auspices of Coalition of All Progressive Congress (APC) supporters in Sokoto has declared their unflinching support for the Governor Mai Mala Buni led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). The group also pledged its unflinching continuos support and vote of confidence on...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Thursday said he was “seriously consulting” to run for President in 2023. Ngige made the remark during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “I told my constituents that were urging me on last December that I will do some...
The Federal Government will, on Monday, arraigned the suspended DCP Abba Kyari, on eight-count charge bordering on drug trafficking. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that Kyari, alongside six others, will be arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) before Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal...
A Kenyan woman, Edda Wakesho, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for filming herself sexually molesting a 4-year-old boy and posting it online. The 21-year-old househelp in Kiembeni Estate, Mombasa, filmed herself engaging in the act with the minor and later posted it online for financial gain. On Wednesday,...
A civil servant, Mrs Esther Anaagu, on Thursday dragged her husband Emmanul, before a Customary Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja for allegedly ”stuffing” tissue-paper in her private part. Anaagu, in her petition said:”my husband stuffs a a lot of tissue in my private parts after sex. ”I summoned the courage...
The National Industrial Court, Abuja, on Thursday struck out a suit filed by the Federal Government against the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors ( NARD) Joined as a co-claimant in the suit is the Federal Ministry of health. However, when the case was called, neither the claimants nor their...
Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Edo e-registration committee on Wednesday said that the state was fast becoming the strongest PDP base in Nigeria. Adjoto, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Benin on Thursday, said that this was on account...
Innoson Nigeria Ltd, Nigeria’s foremost indigenous Auto Industrialist has expressed its concerns about the new trend in its long-running legal battles with GTB (Guarantee Trust Bank Plc.). Innoson Nigeria Ltd is concerned about the interference of EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) in the legal matters in a manner...