The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has confirmed its readiness to commence probe into a petition against former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, for allegedly using Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) to divert public funds between 1999 and 2007. Minister of State Read more…
A High Court of Benue State sitting in Makurdi, State capital, has issued an interim injunction restraining Dr Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The presiding judge, Justice W.I. Kpochi, gave Read more…
Nigerian Law Professor, Dr Gideon Christian, has petitioned the International Criminal Court, to conduct an investigation into series of ethnically motivated violence resulting in injuries and death during the just concluded Presidential and Governorship elections in Nigeria and inciting ethnic Read more…
The camp of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has disclosed that it would be absurd for him to respond to the petitions filed at the election tribunal by Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his counterpart in Peoples Democratic Read more…
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has backed calls for the televising of the presidential election tribunal proceedings. He made the comment while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics following calls by the National President of the Nigerian Bar Read more…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the disqualification of Senator Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima as the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Read more…
The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has congratulated the Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke over the judgment of the Court of Appeal which upheld his victory at the July 16, 2022 Governorship election. In a statement Read more…
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Kayode Ariwoola was on Friday spotted observing his prayers at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Central Mosque in Abuja. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqLWIB4MvJa/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=f65b96ea-cc0c-40ee-a9e9-3828c3f902c0 This is coming in the wake of speculations that he is in London to meet president-elect Read more…
Artyom Uss, son of the governor of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Region, Aleksandr Uss, has fled house arrest near the Italian city of Milan, the ANSA news agency reported on Thursday. The Carabinieri – an Italian law enforcement agency that also acts Read more…
Ekweremadu, Beatrice, their daughter, Sonia, and Obeta had been standing trial at the Old Bailey for organ trafficking. Their conviction on Thursday was the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ekweremadu and his wife were last Read more…
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of installing a third-party device he said was used to intercept and switch results of the presidential election that was held on February Read more…
President Muhammadu Buhari has refused assent to Constitution amendment bills on the power to summon Presidents and Governors. Refusal of presidential assent on the Constitution alteration bill and 18 others by President Buhari was lamented on the floor of the Read more…