By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia to dissolve the Caretaker Committees in the 23 local government councils in the state with immediate effect in compliance with the judgement of the apex court. The party hailed...
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The ECOWAS Court of Justice has nullified the dismissal of Mr Momodu Cham, a former staff of the Commission, saying it breached Article 69 of the ECOWAS staff regulations. Cham had filed the suit following his dismissal from his position as a Procurement Officer with the Inter-Governmental Action...
JOEL OLADELE, Abuja The Social Democratic Party (SDP), has hailed the landmark ruling of the Supreme Court in favor of financial autonomy for local governments in Nigeria. In a statement signed on Friday, the media assistant to the national chairman of the party, Olugbenga George, said the statesman was...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), on Friday, re-arraigned Binance Holdings Limited on four-count charge bordering on tax evasion allegations. Nigerian representative of Binance, Ayodele Omotilewa, who was docked, took a plea on behalf of the company before Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court, Abuja. He...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has welcomed the judgment of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja that upheld the decision of the governorship election petition tribunal affirming his return as the duly elected Governor of Kogi State. In his reaction to...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, admitted former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, to a N10 billion bail with two sureties. Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling on Mamman’s bail application moved by his counsel, Femi Ate, SAN, held that alternatively, the former minister shall enter...
Anambra State Governor, Chukwuemeka Soludo has said the Supreme Court judgment affirming constitutional rights of local governments is good for democracy. Soludo said this while addressing State House correspondents after a visit to President Bola Tinubu on Thursday. “Supreme Court is the final authority and, as a democrat, I...
The Kogi State Government has described Governor Usman Ododo’s electoral victory at the Court of Appeal as a huge leap forward. Information commissioner Kingsley Fanwo told newsmen on Thursday in Lokoja that the victory had affirmed Ododo as the people’s choice. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra has described the Supreme Court judgment on remittance of Local Government Council allocation directly to the third tier of government as a “reprieve” for the local government system. Chairman of PDP in Anambra, Chief Chigozie Igwe, reacted to the judgment in an...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja on Thursday, affirmed Usman Ododo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the validly elected governor of Kogi. A three-member panel of the court, in a unanimous judgement delivered by Justice Onyekachi Otisi, held that the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its governorship...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, ordered the remand of former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, in Kuje Correctional Centre pending the hearing of his bail application. Justice James Omotosho gave the order after Mamman pleaded not guilty to a 12-count amended charge bordering on money...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and a former deputy governor of Benue State, Chief Stephen Lawani has Supreme Court’s ruling on autonomy for Local Government Councils would require something additional to make that tier of government functional and relevant. Lawani said in a...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State High Court, presided by Justice Elias Abua, has thrown out a suit which sought an order of interlocutory injunction to remove the Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V. Justice Abua said that giving such orders without any tangible...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, has ordered a 30-year-old teacher, Josiah Alkali, to be remanded in a correctional facility for allegedly kissing and romancing four boys. Alkali was charged by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) with defilement on four separate charge sheets....
The arraignment of Mr Saleh Mamman, former Minister of Power under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, was, on Thursday, stalled at a Federal High Court, Abuja, due to ill-health. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mamman, whose plea was fixed for Thursday morning, collapsed outside the courtroom...
#EndSARS nOWAS Court orders Nigeria to pay victims N2m compensation each The ECOWAS Court of Justice, on Wednesday, ordered Nigeria to pay 2 million naira each to some victims of the October 2020 #EndSARS protests in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protests were organized...
The Supreme Court will deliver judgment on the suit seeking full autonomy for the 774 local governments in the country on Thursday, July 11. The notices on the development have being sent to all the lawyers in the suit. The Federal Government instituted the suit against all the...
An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Mrs Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has revealed that the embattled Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Governor Godwin Emefiele, and his wife Margaret, were not signatories to the account alleged to have been owned by them. Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office...
The former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Anamekwe Nwabuoku, on Wednesday, begged a Federal High Court, Abuja, to give him more time to conclude the refund of the public funds allegedly siphoned. Nwabuoku and his co-defendant, Felix Nweke, in the 11-count money laundering charge preferred against them...
No The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended its National Vice Chairman (South South), Chief Dan Orbih over his alleged actions and utterances on Edo governorship primary election of the party. The party disclosed this, in a statement, by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba in Abuja on Wednesday....