As the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, kick-starts hearing on Monday, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have filed an application for an order to allow live coverage of day-to-day proceedings on the case they Read more…
Pan-Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-political group, Igbo Patriotic Forum (IPF), has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kayode Oriwoola, to shelve plans of swearing in politicians whose cases are before the tribunal, in the just concluded general polls. Atiku Abubakar of the Read more…
Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has reacted to the sentencing of her parents to prison with sadness and a feeling of guilt. A court in the United Kingdom, on Friday, sentenced Ekweremadu to nine years Read more…
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), has backed the Archbishop emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan over his remarks that no politician whose electoral victory is being challenged in court should be sworn in until Read more…
Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, presided by Justice Adolphus Enebeli (now retired), has ordered Chief Cletus Ibeto to refund the sum of N3, 295,000,000 being the sum received in naira for the failed land transaction with Dozzy Oil and Read more…
The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola, to boycott the inauguration ceremony of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on May 29, Read more…
A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and their “middleman” have been jailed for an organ-trafficking plot, after bringing a man to the UK from Lagos. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, wanted a new kidney for their Read more…
The Senate on Tuesday appealed to the United Kingdom government for clemency as a UK court prepares to sentence Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice. The Red Chamber made the appeal barely 48 hours before Read more…
The Archbishop emeritus of the Catholic Dioceses of Abuja Cardinal John Onaiyekan,has criticised the government rush to swear in Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President, despite the case in court. According to Onaiyekan, “it doesn’t make much sense” for President-elect Read more…
Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has reacted to comments by Bishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan against the upcoming May 29 swearing in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. Recall Vanguard had earlier published Read more…
The Senate on Tuesday appealed to the United Kingdom government for clemency as a UK court prepares to sentence Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice. The Red Chamber made the appeal barely 48 hours before Read more…
The Abuja division of the Federal High Court has ordered all parties to the suit against Seplat Energy Plc not to take further steps that would affect the subject matter for litigation before the court until issues in the case Read more…