June 2023 - Page 6 of 26 - ProbitasNews

Some of the documents that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate for the 2023 election, asked to produce as exhibits in the Presidential Election Tribunal are missing. On Tuesday, INEC made the announcement in front of the court in Abuja. In a petition with the filing number CA/PEPC/03/2023, Mr. Obi and the Labour Party (LP) ask the court to overturn President Bola Tinubu’s election on February 25. The All Progressives Congress (APC), INEC,...

Abdulkarim Chukkol, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s interim chairman, called on law enforcement agencies in West Africa to work closely together. Chukkol made the announcement while opening an EFCC-sponsored peer exchange programme for Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office at the Rockview Hotel in Abuja.   He said that an alliance of this kind will be helpful in the region’s fight against economic and financial crime. He declared: “This study tour is of utmost...

Kaduna State’s governor, Uba Sani, has stated that his administration will keep granting the state’s 23 local government areas financial autonomy for growth. The governor made this statement on Monday while hosting the 23 council chairmen at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House in Kaduna, the state capital, as part of a formal visit.   Sani pleaded with the council chairmen to avoid using political, religious, or tribal allegiances when interacting with the populace. He...

An ex-commissioner claims that from June 2015 to March 2023, the administration of the outgoing governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, spent more than N20 billion on 111,687 needy students for post-graduate scholarships abroad in 14 different nations, five private universities, the Nigerian Law School, and other internal universities. This information was provided in a statement from Muhammad Garba, the former commissioner for information and internal affairs in Ganduje’s administration, in response to a...