A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday cleared a former Cross River State Governor Donald Duke of his N537,334,360.77 debt to Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). This followed the payment of N350 million as final settlement to the Federal Government agency. The court discharged its August 21 interimContinue Reading
A Former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Timi Alaibe has dismissed reports that he defected to the Alliance for Democracy (AD) following his failure to clinch the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Alaibe said he remains a loyal member of PDP despite being bombardedContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari says the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on the February 23, 2019 poll, is a victory for Nigerians who trooped out to overwhelmingly elect him for a second term in office. He also urged his opponent and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join handsContinue Reading
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Wednesday, upheld the election of President Muhammadu Buhari as the actual winner of the February 23 presidential election. It also said it has come to an inevitable conclusion that the petitioners have not proved any of the grounds of the petition as known by lawContinue Reading
Scottish appeal court judges have declared Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament in the run-up to the October Brexit deadline is unlawful. The three judges, chaired by Lord Carloway, Scotland’s most senior judge, overturned an earlier ruling that the courts did not have the power to interfere in the prime minister’s political decision to prorogueContinue Reading
Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday struck out an application filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, seeking to strike out the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for not joining the Vice-President,Continue Reading
Senator Rochas Okorocha, the immediate past governor of Imo State, has lamented what he described as “the humiliating treatment” allegedly meted to him by his party, the All Progressives Congress, “in spite of [his] sacrifices and financial contributions to the party.” Okorocha, the senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, toldContinue Reading
Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo, flagged off the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) in Adamawa State on Tuesday amidst reservation in many circles about the plan. Osinbajo, who visited the Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of the state to do the flag-off, had to stress that theContinue Reading
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, took his agitation for the actualization of a Sovereign State called Biafra to the European Union parliament. The IPOB leader told the parliament that it was the ill treatment meted by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led AllContinue Reading
The Chief of Staff (COS) to President Muhammad Buhari, Abba Kyari, is the latest of dignitaries to arrive at the venue of the much expected judgment in the petition by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). PDP and Atiku are challenging the outcome of the last presidential election,Continue Reading
