Sen. Jibrin Isah Echocho, Tribunal on Tuesday sacked Sen. Jibrin Isah Echocho, the Senate Committee Chairman on Customs Excise and Tariffs on the ground that elections were cancelled in some 94 polling units. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports in Lokoja that the tribunal also ordered Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a…
Presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has spoken about his expectations ahead of the presidential tribunal’s judgement on Wednesday, September 6. Atiku and his party have filed a petition challenging the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The former vice president, through his lawyer, Chris…
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shuaibu, has withdrawn the suit he filed at the Federal High Court to stop alleged plots by the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, to remove him from office. Shaibu, in a circular dated September 5, 2023, cited the case with Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1027/2023 which named the Inspector General of…
28 suspects paraded for robbery, vandalisation, defilement The police in Jos have arrested a suspect, Salisu Adamu, for the abduction of seven students of University of Jos (UNIJOS) on June 12, 2023. Adamu, of Minta village in Bassa Local Council of Plateau,was involved inJos prison jailbreak that occurred in 2020. Parading the suspect…
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The Federal Government has set a two-week timeline on wage award, tax exemptions and allowances to public sector workers to “cushion the pains and anguish they are going through as a result of subsidy removal,” as put forward by the Trade Union Congress. The government also agreed to iron out the modalities of accessing the…
L-R: Justice Bello, Justice Ugo, Justice Bolanji-Yusuf, Justice Adah, Justice Tsammani The Presidential Election Petition Court in May, commenced hearing the election petitions filed by five candidates in the last presidential poll that saw the emergence of Bola Tinubu as winner. The candidates are challenging Tinubu’s emergence, and the five-man panel is expected to hear…
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, has admitted that President Bola Tinubu has received an invitation to join the G-20 and currently considering the membership benefits of the gathering of the world’s largest economies. This was even as the presidential spokesman debunked viral reports making the round on social media…
Ahead of the Wednesday’s judgment to be delivered by the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPT), the Presidency says that President Bola Tinubu is not worried about the outcome of the court. “He (Tinubu) is not worried simply because he knows he won the election,” said presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme…
Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja The Court of Appeal, Abuja has directed its members of staff to stay at home on Wednesday, which is the date scheduled for judgment in the respective petitions challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu. This was disclosed in a memo signed by Oluwaleye Oluwasegun David, Chief Registrar,…
