A former lawmaker, Senator Alex Kadiri has decried the killings and indiscriminate brandishing of weapons amongst youths in Kogi, calling for government’s immediate intervention. Senator Kadiri represented Kogi East in the National Assembly between 1999 and 2003. The ex-lawmaker made the plea while addressing newsmen in Lokoja on...
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A Federal High Court, Abuja has disqualified the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva, from contesting the Nov. 11 election in Bayelsa. Justice Donatus Okorowo, in a judgment delivered Monday night, held that Sylva, having been sworn in twice and ruled for five...
The Nasarawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has directed its supporters to limit their celebrations over the recent victory at the tribunal to party offices in Lafia, the state capital, as well as in the 13 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. Mr Francis...
The Ogbia High Court sitting in Yenagoa on Monday adjourned a suit seeking to stop work on the Oloibiri Museum and Research Centre, at Otuabagi in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa until Oct. 19. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the case was slated for...
Justice Ibironke Harrison of a Lagos State High Court has sentenced police officer, ASP Drambi Vandi, to death by hanging for killing lawyer, Barrister Bolanle Raheem. Vandi had shot Mrs Raheem dead in the presence of her husband while returning from church on Christmas Day December 25,...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo – The Chairman Intra Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Taraba State Chapter, Hon. Kuriya Tafarki Auta has warned against the use of political thuggery and dangerous weapons during campaign. Hon Kuriya made the appeal when interacting with our correspondent in Jalingo, Taraba State, He...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Despite the allegation of certificate forgery leveled against President Bola Tinubu, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has expressed confidence that the Supreme Court’s ruling would be in favour of the president. Recalled that the Presidential candidate of...
Former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung has said that his former principal, ex-President Muhammadu Buhari is now living in regret over an alleged failure of his administration to tackle the challenges facing the country. Speaking to Trust Radio, Dalung alleged that the Buhari administration...
The Former President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, on Sunday said that he joined the Labour Party to win the governorship ticket as well as win the forthcoming 2024 governorship election in Edo state. Akpata, who made this known in Benin during his 51st birthday...
Vice President, Sen. Kashin Shetima, on Sunday told residents of Kogi that voting for All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Nov. 11 governorship election is as good as revamping Ajaokuta Steel Complex. Shettima, who made the declaration during the APC’s official flag-off campaign for governorship election...
The National Peace Committee of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has charged the National Working Committee (NWC) to withdraw its expulsion order on the party’s founder, Dr Boniface Aniebonam. The committee also recommended that the NWC should write a letter of apology to Aniebonam for the obvious...
The Founder of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Dr Boniface Aniebonam, says the party will not lose its governorship seat in Kano State. Aniebonam made this known in a statement on Sunday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Kano State Governorship Election Petitions...
A legal luminary, Mr Paul Erokoro, SAN, says tendering additional evidence at the Supreme Court is an uphill task that requires a great deal of effort. According to him, the rules admitting fresh evidence at the Supreme Court are very stringent. Erokoro made the remark on Sunday in...
Mr Felix Hyat, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman in Kaduna State, has said that the exit of former governor Ramalan Yero and Rep. Godfrey Gaiya would not affect the party’s strength. The duo recently left the party with Gaiya, currently an aide to the Speaker of the House...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has applied for leave of the Supreme Court to file what he termed as fresh evidence. In a motion he filed through his team of lawyers, Atiku said the evidence he is seeking to tender before...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Saturday, vacated the judgment by the National and State Houses of Assembly Tribunal which nullified the election of the lawmaker representing Tarauni Federal Constituency in Kano State, Rep Umar Mukhtari Zakari. A three-member panel, In the lead judgment by Justice...
The Kogi All Progressives Congress (APC) got a boost to its build-up for the State governorship election following the defection of Alhaji Ismail Inah, a former federal lawmaker, into the party from the PDP on Friday. A statement in Lokoja on Saturday by APC Campaign Council Spokesperson, Mr Kingsley...
A Lagos High Court will on Monday deliver judgment in the case of a police officer, Darambi Vandi, charged with shooting dead a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, on Christmas Day. The court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square gave the judgment date on July 13 after adoption of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has inaugurated a reconciliation committee toward addressing the crisis rocking the Ondo State chapter, leading to the impeachment proceedings against the deputy governor. APC National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, performed the ceremony on Friday in Abuja. “Since the return of democracy in 1979,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has said that with three professors now in charge of Borno’s health sector, it is either the sector is repositioned now or never. Governor Zulum stated this on Friday when he received the Health Minister, Prof. Mohammed...