The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Mohammad, has called for the nomination of six judges for appointment as Supreme Court justices. In a letter addressed to all judicial officers in Nigeria, the CJN said it had become necessary to fill the vacant positions caused by the death and...
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A Federal lawmaker representing Imo West district in the National Assembly, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has announced his intention to contest for presidency in 2023. He made the announcement in a letter to the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan. Senator Lawan read the letter at the commencement of...
An Abuja Upper Area Court is to deliver ruling in a bail application filed by a businesswoman, Hauwa Muhammed, popularly known as Jaruma. The police charged Mrs Jaruma with false news publication, intimidation and defamation of character. The Area court judge, Ismailia Abdullahi, adjourned until Friday for ruling.Mr Abdullahi...
The Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Seye Oladejo, on Tuesday said that Sen. Bola Tinubu remains the man to beat in the 2023 Presidential Election with backing from over 1,800 groups. Oladejo, in a statement in Lagos, took a swipe at those attacking...
The trial of Abubakar Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, for an alleged N1.4 billion fraud before Justice Christopher Balogun of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, continued on Tuesday with the cross-examination of the fifth prosecution witness, Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman of the Economic and...
An All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain, Malam Gambo Manzo, has appealed to the party leaders and stakeholders to bury their differences, ahead of the party’s national convention, slated for Feb. 26. Manzo, the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Affairs in the Vice-President’s office, made the appeal...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed March 31 for judgment in the 9.8 million dollars fraud charge filed against Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Justice Ahmed Mohammed fixed the date after counsel to the EFCC, Farouk Abdullah, and the defence...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has convicted a comedian and skit maker, Joshua Sunday, popularly called De General, for unlawful possession of 14 grams of Tramadol. Also convicted alongside the 22-year-old comedian, is Caleb Ojana William, who was accused of unlawful possession of 15 grams of Cannabis...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has nullified its Jan. 15 three-man Ad-hoc Ward Delegate Congresses in Ekiti State. The party disclosed this in a statement, jointly signed by its National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, and the National Secretary, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, on resolutions...
Justice Bolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has issued a warrant of arrest against the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, believed to be residing in the United Kingdom. Justice Olajuwon granted the request after counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farouk Abdullah,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode on an amended 17-count charge of money laundering. Fani-Kayode is standing trial alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, a former Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of...
Chief Dan Orbih, National Vice-Chairman, South South of the PDP has advised the Federal Government to make bold and informed decisions that would put an end to insecurity in Nigeria. Orbih gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Monday. He...
A former senator, Mrs Grace Bent has dragged Precious Chikwendu, estranged wife of former Aviation Minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode to the Federal High Court, Abuja over alleged defamation of character. When the matter was called on Monday, however, Chikwendu was absent in court and there was no legal representation...
By NWAORGU FAUSTINA, Port-Harcourt – Prince Tonye Princewill is from Rivers State, a politician, business magnate, filmmaker and philanthropist. He was the Director of Strategic Communications of the All Progressives Congress, APC Campaign in Rivers State in the 2019 general elections. Currently an APC Chieftain, he was the governorship...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, the Director General of Voice of Nigeria(VON) has described the rejection of Peoples Democratic Party’ (PDP) overtures by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a signal to another defeat in 2023 presidential election. Okechukwu wondered whether PDP leaders have refused to understand that Nigerians are suspicious and...
Former Commissioner for Information, Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to follow the mood in the country by producing a young Southerner as its presidential candidate in 2023. Afegbua, a member of PDP, gave the advice in a statement he issued on Sunday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The former Managing Director of FSB International PLC, Alhaji Mohammed Hayatudeen has revalidated his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) membership on Sunday in his ward in Jere LGC of Borno State. Hayatudeen picked his renewed PDP membership card No. 133 at Gudda Khaddamari Ward of...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Central Senatorial District of Cross River State, want the next state governor to emerged from the Southern Senatorial District. The party’s stakeholders stated this on Saturday in a communique issued to newsmen after their meeting which was...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over the alleged “secrecy in the spending of loans so far obtained, the unsustainable level of borrowing by the government and the 36 states, debt crisis, and...
During a visit to Lagos on an advocacy campaign on the need for the diversification of the Nigerian economy in 2004, the Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Engineer Hamman Tukur told the then Governor Bola Tinubu that any local government created outside the constitution...