No one should be surprised by today’s ruling in the Atiku vs Buhari case –Fani Kayode

Following Wednesday’s verdict by Nigeria’s presidential election petition tribunal which dismissed Abubakar Atiku’s petition against Muhammadu Buhari, the former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode tweeting @realFFK, wondered why Nigerians were surprised at the outcome of the tribunal. He alleged that Buhari rigged the courts in his favour. He said, “If anyone is surprised by […]

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Tribunal verdict: If Abiola could move from a winner to a prisoner, nothing shocks me again -Dele Momodu

Ovation International Magazine CEO, Dele Momodu, wrote on his Twitter page: “I will be most happy and impressed if the Supreme Court can give a better interpretation to things so obvious and if they don’t, I will move on in peace. “Experience is the best teacher, Our country is too complex and complicated. If MKO […]

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PDP rejects judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, says its subversion of justice

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday said it “completely” rejected the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, describing it as “provocative, barefaced subversion of justice and direct assault on the integrity of our nation’s justice system.” In a statement signed by the National Publicity of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, immediately after the judgement, the PDP […]

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Nigeria’s presidential election tribunal dismisses Atiku’s petition in its entirety

Although the judgment in Atiku Abubakar and PDP against Muhammadu Buhari and 2 others is still on, the lead Justice, Garba Mohammed has concluded his judgment and has dismissed Atiku, PDP’s case. “This petition is accordingly, and hereby dismissed in its entirety,” says the lead justice. The other members are still reading their judgments or […]

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Falana accuses Buhari of cramping many innocent Nigerians in illegal detention

Many Nigerian citizens marked the first 100 days in office of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term in police and military detention facilities across the country. These citizens, according to the National Chairman, Peoples Alternative Forum, Femi Falana SAN, were victims of the indiscriminate arrests and illegal detentions by the police and other security agencies. Falana, […]

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FUOYE students protest power outages, Fayemi’s wife allegedly attacked

Wife of the Ekiti State Governor, Mrs Bisi Fayemi, on Tuesday is reported to have escaped physical attack by protesting students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE). The students were protesting against incessant power outages on their campuses and want the government to do something about it. Though, the protest, considered as being peaceful […]

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Reasons corruption did not abate in Nigeria —Lumumba

Former director of the Kenyan anti-corruption agency known as Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC), Prof. Patrick Lumumba, on Tuesday said the reason why corruption still thrived in Nigeria was because the people were not yet tired of the practice. Lumumba said, in a society such as Nigeria where people still celebrated those that fraudulently enriched themselves, corruption […]

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Tribunal declares Olujimi winner of Senatorial poll in Ekiti, Adeyeye loses

National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State has nullified the election of Senator Dayo Adeyeye as the winner of the February 23 National Assembly election in Ekiti South Senatorial District. The tribunal in a unanimous verdict, therefore declared former Senate Minority Leader and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), […]

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My husband has denied me sex for 5 years –Woman tells court

Nigerian housewife, Talatu, 35, on Monday approached a Sharia Court ll sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State for a divorce with her husband, Nasiru Sulaiman, for being sex-starved by him for five years. She said, “We have six children but he has refused to enrol them in school. “I enrolled them but he pulled them […]

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Court grants permanent forfeiture of Diezani Alison-Madueke’s $40m jewelleries

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has on Tuesday, ordered the permanent forfeiture of the 2,149 pieces of jewellery and a customised gold iPhone, valued at $40m, recovered from the Abuja home of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. In a ruling on Tuesday, Justice Nicholas Oweibo held that Diezani, through […]

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Judge accuses Sowore’s counsel of interrupting court proceedings

A Federal High Court judge in Nigeria, Justice Nkeonye Maha, had on Monday accused a counsel, Abubakar Marshal, representing pro-democracy activist and convener of RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, of disrupting her court session. Marshal, who is a member of the legal team from Femi Falana chamber, had approached the judge in the open court shortly […]

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Atiku vs Buhari: Election Tribunal delivers judgment on Wednesday

Nigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Tribunal will on Wednesday deliver judgment in the case instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the outcome of the February 23, 2019 election. Atiku and PDP asked the five-man tribunal led by Justice Mohammed Garba to nullify President Buhari’s victory at the poll […]

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Election Tribunal removes Orji Kalu from Nigerian Senate

National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abia state has sacked former governor, Orji Uzor Kalu as senator representing Abia north in Nigeria’s National Assembly. Kalu, who is currently the senate chief whip, had been elected under the banner of the All Progressives Congress (APC). But the tribunal nullified his election at its sitting on […]

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Middle belt of Nigeria does not belong to the North –MBF

Emmanuel Zopmal, National leader of the youth wing of the Middle Belt Forum in a statement he issued in response to an interview by a retired police commissioner, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, has noted that there is no sense in continuing being together with the north, a people who persistently seek their total destruction and annihilation […]

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640 Nigerians signify to return home from South Africa –Abike Dabiri-Erewa

As a result of the recent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other nationals in South Africa, the Nigerian government has revealed that 640 Nigerians have registered to come back home from the rainbow nation. Nigerian government had deferred the date for the evacuation of Nigerians living in South Africa, following the need to get travel […]

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Jonathan was under pressure to prosecute Buhari over certificate, genocide, human rights violations, Adoke says in new book

President Goodluck Jonathan came under pressure to prosecute Candidate Muhammadu Buhari over various allegations in the run-up to the 2015 presidential election — but he declined and eventually lost to the former military head of state. Mohammed Bello Adoke, who was attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice under Jonathan, made this revelation in […]

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Presidential election Tribunal to deliver judgment this week

Nigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Tribunal will deliver judgment in the petition by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the February 23 general election, according to Daily Trust. Chairman of the five-man panel, Justice Mohammed Garba had while reserving the judgment on August 21 stated […]

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Wike did not demolish any mosque building -Fayemi, chair govs forum

Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has declared that he could not see any evidence that a building existed on the disputed land in Rainbow Town, Port Harcourt, where some persons alleged that the Rivers State government demolished a mosque. Speaking with journalists after a joint assessment of […]

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After office, I almost commit suicide, says Adoke, ex-AGF

A former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, who is currently on a self-exile, said he contemplated suicide due to alleged persecution he was subjected to after he left office in 2015. Adoke also listed Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu; and Senator Ali Ndume as […]

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