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A seven-man panel of Nigerian Supreme Court led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili, unanimously affirmed Governor Oluseyi Makinde as the duly elected governor of Oyo State. Upturning the Court of Appeal’s majority judgment of four against one, the Supreme court restored the judgment of the Oyo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which had declared Makinde and […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senator representing Imo North Senatorial District, Imo state, Nigeria, Benjamin Uwajumogu, has died. His death was confirmed to journalists outside the Senate chamber on Wednesday by the Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Mr. Rochas Okorocha. The Senator was said to have slumped in the toilet while taking his bath and rushed to a […]
Continue ReadingA policeman was on Wednesday reported to have been killed by a mob at the Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Oshinle Quarters, Akure, the Ondo State capital. The angry youths also set the church ablaze following the protest over a missing one-year-old boy during church service in November. The little boy, Gold Kolawole was kidnapped in the […]
Continue ReadingA Ghanaian but resident of Virginia identified as Henry Asomani has been convicted by a US court after being found guilty of a $3 million scam that ripped off people looking for love online. The naturalized American citizen who was born in Ghana reportedly served as the middleman in the fraudulent scheme in which his accomplices persuaded […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has on Tuesday, signed the 2020 Budget Bill into law. The National Assembly, comprising of the Senate and the House of Representatives had passed the N10.59 trillion budget on December 5. On his verified Twitter handle, Buhari wrote: “It is my pleasant duty, today, on my 77th birthday, to sign the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has on Tuesday, seriously warned against using his name to canvass for votes ahead of the 2023 general elections. Buhari said anyone aspiring to occupy a political office must work hard to achieve his goal, instead of dropping his name. The president spoke at the State House, Abuja when some of […]
Continue ReadingMore than 100 women between 50 and 80 years of age from Agubia Community in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State stripped half-naked, in protest of the arrest of their children by security agents operating in the state. The women stormed the Government House gate at about 11 am on Monday, demanding the immediate […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has announced that a Deputy Commandant with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ms Adenike Ishola, has jumped bail in the case file against her. In a statement posted on the commission’s website, ICPC announced that it had secured an interim forfeiture order on […]
Continue ReadingWife of Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari, on Tuesday opted to refer to her husband as “General” in her birthday greeting to Buhari who turned 77. In a congratulatory message she posted on her Facebook page and Twitter handle, @aishambuhari, Mrs Buhari chose to refer to her husband as “GMB”, an acronym for […]
Continue ReadingA Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Tinubu, Lagos has ordered the police to arrest and bring for immediate arraignment, musician Afeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, over an alleged car theft. According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Naira Marley alongside two of his brothers and one of his cousins, […]
Continue ReadingAttorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Abubakar Malami SAN, on Monday, December 16, indicated that he could not ask the Department of State Service (DSS) to release Omoyele Sowore from custody. The AGF said in a statement that he could not take a unilateral decision on the release of Sowore without recourse […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Kano State has dismissed the bribery suit instituted against the Kano state governor, Mr. Abdullahi Ganduje, for lack of evidence. The bribery suit was instituted by a Kano-based lawyer, Bulama Bukarti Esq. The lawyer asked the court to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate Ganduje […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana SAN, has written a letter to demand the immediate release of Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters and the convener of RevolutionNow Movement. Falana said, his call for Sowore’s release was necessary after two lawyers from his team, who visited the Department of State Services, DSS, to effect […]
Continue ReadingOluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, and his Jamaican wife, Chanel Chin, have ended their marriage. The marriage between the royal father and the Jamaican produced a son named Oduduwa. A statement by Oluwo’s Press Secretary, Alli Ibrahim, obtained on Sunday, said the couple ended the marriage “after irreconcilable differences.” Ibrahim, also in a telephone […]
Continue ReadingPaul Ibe, spokesman of former vice president and the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has shared a photo of a man who allegedly changed his son’s name from Buhari to Suleiman. Paul Ibe alleged that the man is from Dutsinma in Katsina which is President Buhari’s home State, and further disclosed that the man […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s EFCC, on Saturday, December 14, marked properties belonging to former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu. In a statement released, the antigraft agency says the marking is to ensure that the properties are not dissipated, following the December 5, 2019 order of Justice Muhammed Idris sitting at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos […]
Continue ReadingNollywood actress Angela Okorie has narrowly escaped death. She was attacked by armed men on the 12th of December, as she was returning from a show. Bullets were rained into her G-Wagon, but luckily for her none hit her. At the hospital she was rushed too, 14 bullet pellets were removed from her wig. She […]
Continue ReadingImmediate past Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has lost his mother, Mrs Muyinat Mimiko to the cold hand of death. The ex-governor’s mother died on Friday night during a brief illness at her residence in Ondo town, at the age of 88. Mr Paul Akinduro, an aide to Mimiko, who confirmed the death […]
Continue ReadingImmediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen, cannot travel out of the country because he has been barred by the President, Muhammadu Buhari According to Punch, the move may be part of a fresh probe into Onnoghen’s affairs. The former CJN was convicted by the Code of Conduct Tribunal in April, for […]
Continue ReadingEx-president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and emeritus Catholic Bishop, Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi-Okogie, has said in a statement, that Nigeria is gradually returning to the era of military dictatorship where there is disobedience to the rule of law. Okogie, a former Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, decried the frequent disobedience to court orders by […]
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