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Tribunal dismisses petitions against Kaduna two PDP Reps, David and  Bashir

The petitions filed against two PDP House of Representatives members were denied by the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Kaduna State. On Saturday, the tribunal dismissed the applications filed against David Gurara, who represents the Kachia/Kagarko Federal Constituency, and Bashir Shadow, a member who represents the Kauru Federal Constituency. The Independent National Electoral Commission conducted the House of Representatives election on February 25, 2023, and the two federal MPs were re-elected. Gabriel Zock and...

Paul Ndeobi: Any coup in Nigeria might cause country to break out

Restructuring in Nigeria is something that Rev. (Dr.) Paul Ndeobi, a public analyst and social activist, supports. In this interview with NGOZI UMA, the cleric—who also serves as Senior Pastor of StraightGate International Church—discussed the recent coup in the Niger Republic as well as the response of the ECOWAS, which is headed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Excerpt: What do you believe to be the driving forces that could cause the military to overthrow a...

APC to hold caucus, NEC meetings in August

Meetings of the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) National Caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) are scheduled to take place the following month. Festus Fuanter, the acting national secretary for the APC, confirmed the new development on the Twitter handle for the party on Friday evening. He stated that the meetings would take place in Abuja on August 2 and 3, respectively. Following the departure of its former national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and its national secretary,...

Tinubu’s declaration as President is illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional — Atiku

Bola Tinubu’s election as president of Nigeria is allegedly illegal, illegitimate, and in violation of the constitution, according to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate. According to Atiku, Tinubu’s ability to run for president of Nigeria is in doubt because he has admitted to losing $460,000 to the American government as a result of drug trafficking and money laundering charges, and a witness has attested to this fact. In his final...

Where rule of law is trampled upon, anarchy reigns supreme, Obi replies Tinubu

In a response to President Bola Tinubu’s legal team, Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate for the election of February 25, 2023, and the initial petitioner in the case currently before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, said that anarchy only reigns in places where the rule of law is disregarded. Obi responded to Tinubu’s lawyers’ written argument that a reading of the law needing 25% of the total legal votes cast in 24...

Shettima Presides Over NEC Meeting At State House

Vice-President Kashim Shettima is presiding over the monthly National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja. Thursday’s meeting of the constitutional economic advisory body of government is the second in the history of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration since its inauguration on May 29, 2023. NEC is made up of the 36 governors of the federation, ministers in charge of finance, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),...

Second Election: Keyamo Reacts As CJN Allegedly Tells Tinubu, APC To Prepare For Rerun Election

As CJN allegedly instructs Tinunu and the APC to be ready for a runoff, Keyamo responds Festus Keyamo, a former minister of state for labour and employment, has remarked that he never dreamed that the defeat in the 2023 elections would drive opposition candidates mad with depression. Rather than patiently waiting for the judiciary to carry out its constitutionally mandated function in the election process, he claimed, opposition members have instead created a bewildering array...

How PDP Raises Alarm Over Alleged Threat By APC To Intimidate PEPC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) threatened to intimidate the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Monday, prompting concern from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The group claimed that the written threat made by attorneys to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC to the PEPC was an attempt to intimidate the judiciary in advance. “The statement by the lawyers in the said written address threatening crisis and anarchy in the country in the event that...

Breaking: LP Replies Tinubu over Threat of Anarchy, Reveals Next Move

The Labour Party (LP) has reacted to a warning by President Bola Tinubu and his legal team to the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) sitting in Abuja. Tinubu, through his counsel, allegedly told the Tribunal that nullifying the election that brought him to power on account of the 25 percent of lawful votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory could lead to chaos. Reacting in a statement, the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the party,...

Wole Soyinka wants FG to reopen case of Deborah Samuel, other religious killings

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on the Federal Government to reopen cases of religious killings in the country. Soyinka made this appeal on Channels Television during his 89th birthday celebration on Sunday while he also sought a visa ban on religious bigots. A second-year student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State, Deborah Samuel was killed on May 12, 2022, over allegations of blasphemy. “I also demand that the case...