Tajudeen Abbas and Benjamin Kalu, the APC’s chosen candidates for speaker and deputy speaker of the upcoming 10th House of Representatives, respectively, have met with Alex Otti, the incoming governor of Abia State. The visit, which took place in Abuja, was part of the candidates’ nationwide consultation with stakeholders across party lines before the 10th National Assembly’s inauguration on June 13—the day the parliament’s presiding officers will be chosen. Leaders and members of the Joint...
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the incoming president, has returned from his business trip to France. The two-term governor of Lagos State arrived in his private jet at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at around 2.15pm, where he was greeted by party members, supporters, and some governors. His vice-president-elect, senator Kashim Shettima, governor Abdullahi Ganduje, senator Ahmad Lawan, and senator Godswill Akpabio, the chosen candidate of the ruling party for the position of Senate president...
A 14-year-old boy named Marvelous Asefon has been placed in remand by an Ondo State Magistrate Court in Akure, the state’s capital, over the alleged murder of his next-door neighbor, Sunday Ogele. According to reports, the accused was detained by members of the State Police Command after fatally stabbing the deceased with a pair of scissors during an altercation over a girlfriend in Oka Akoko, the state’s capital and Akoko South-West Local Government Area, in...
The Abuja-based Presidential Election Petition Court has announced plans to combine the three different petitions that seek to overturn the results of the 2023 presidential election. The court claimed that it had the authority under Section 50 of the First Schedule of the Electoral Act to combine all the petitions and make a decision on them all at once. The Independent National Electoral Commission’s lead attorney, Abubakar Mahmood, SAN, supported this decision by stating...
The Free Nigeria Movement, a group of Nigerians, stormed the Force Headquarters and Court of Appeal on Saturday to protest the recent killings in Nasarawa, Benue, and Jos. The protesters, who were primarily women, pleaded with the police and other security personnel to step up and stop the killings in the nation. They added that a miscarriage of justice could ignite the nation as they pleaded with the judiciary to fairly resolve the election petition...
Ondo State Police Command announced on Saturday that a man named Sunday had been detained in relation to the death of an 80-year-old woman in the state. The elderly woman, whose identity had not yet been made public as of the time this report was filed, was discovered dead on her farm in the Costain neighborhood of Ore in the Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. Before her dead body was discovered on the...
On Saturday, the Presidential Election Petition Court continued the pre-hearing of the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, until Monday, May 22, 2023. The day after the parties put forth their modalities for the petition hearing, the five-person panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, set the date. Before the next adjourned date, Justice Tsammani ordered the parties to consult and report to the court on any...
Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate and former Vice President, has lined up 180 witnesses to testify against the ruling All Progressive Congress candidate in the February 25 presidential election. Soon, additional details…
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At the Court of Appeal headquarters in Abuja, where the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) is located, protesters from the Free Nigeria Movement (FNM) have staged a demonstration. Demanding fairness and impartiality in the ongoing evaluation of the February 25 presidential election is the goal of the demonstration. The protesters, who were primarily dressed in black, showed their support for those who have been harmed by the widespread insecurity that has gripped the nation,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has challenged the governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, to back up his allegation of bribery against the commission’s chairman. Matawalle claimed that Abdulrasheed Bawa, the head of the EFCC, had asked for a $2 million bribe. It’s unfair to always place the blame on governors, he said. Governments at all levels have treasuries, not just governors. How does the EFCC chief treat them? Let him demonstrate the...
