Except for divine intervention, the incumbent deputy governor of Ondo state, Hon Lucky Aiyedatiwa, may be shoved out of office any moment from now following the commencement of an impeachment process against him by the state House of Assembly over Read more…
Category: Judiciary
President Bola Tinubu has filed an application with the District Court to stop the Chicago State University from releasing his academic records to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. A United States Magistrate Court had made an order directing the Chicago Read more…
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue state has upheld the election of Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 18 election. The tribunal dismissed the petition of the Read more…
A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Amina Adamu Augie on Thursday, called on the Godswill Akpabio-led 10th National Assembly to amend the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended to enhance the functioning of courts Read more…
The Abure-led Labour Party (LP) has declared that it will appeal the Enugu Governorship tribunal judgement to the Supreme Court. The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Enugu State on Thursday upheld the election of Governor Peter Mbah of the Read more…
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is seeking an overturn of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) on the February 25 presidential poll over its failure to Read more…
The Ondo State House of Assembly yesterday began a process of impeaching the Deputy Governor of the state, Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, over alleged abuse of office. The Assembly, during an emergency plenary yesterday, directed the clerk of the House, Read more…
A 24-hour curfew has been declared in Kano State following the judgment of the State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, which sacked the state governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf. The state Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Usaini Gumel, in a statement he personally Read more…
University to release the academic records of President Bola Tinubu to his rival presidential candidate in the 25 February election, Atiku Abubakar. Jeffrey Gilbert, a US magistrate judge, gave the ruling on Tuesday, ordering the university to produce “all relevant Read more…
Determined to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his counterpart in the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, on Tuesday, lodged separate appeals before the Supreme Court. The Read more…
There were hints yesterday that the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele and other top officials of the bank may face trial after all. This follows the stalling of the plea bargain move between the Federal Government Read more…
A human rights group, Campaign for Democracy (CD), the in South East, has condemned the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), describing it as a miscarriage of justice and a deliberate plot to kill democracy, constitutionalism and the Read more…