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Tope Temokun, a lawyer and human rights advocate, has taken Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to court, challenging the legality of appointing and inaugurating Caretaker Committees or Transition Committees to manage local government affairs in the state.  The lawsuit, filed at the Ondo State High Court’s Akure Division, seeks a court order declaring such appointments illegal, unconstitutional, and null and void.  The Attorney General of Ondo State and the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission are also defendants...

        The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has condemned the absence of duly and lawfully constituted Governing Councils in the Nigerian government (federal) universities, polytechnics, monotechnics, Colleges of Education and other degree awarding institutions.     The civic organisation said this in a report on Friday titled: “Absence of governing councils in federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education: vice chancellors, rectors and provosts now demigods and...