The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has upturned the unanimous decision of the tribunal and affirmed Amobi Godwin Ogah as Reps member representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on February 27, declared Labour Party’s Ogah winner with 11769 votes against former Deputy Chief Whip who was gunning for a fifth…
Kenneth Okonkwo, a Nigerian Actor, Lawyer, Columnist and Politician has replied to the purported petition written by the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ajibola Basiru, to the NBA against him for disagreeing with the judgement of the Supreme Court on the petition appeal of HE Peter Obi and the Labour Party. In…
IT IS TIME FOR US TO BUILD OUR GREAT NATION TOGETHER I welcome the verdict of the Justice John I. Okoro-led Panel of the Supreme Court on the Presidential Election petitions filed by the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party, challenging the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. The court…
By Kalu Idika The Supreme Court of Nigeria will finally deliver judgement in the appeals lodged by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi and his PDP counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Thursday, 26 October 2023. The legal teams of both the PDP and the LP candidates confirmed to NewsBand that…
A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has said that the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, won the February 25 presidential election and not Bola Tinubu as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Lawal made the declaration in a statement recently. According to him, available…
The people of Obuno Autonomous Community in Akpugo Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State have expressed surprise and disappointment over the attitude of Deacon Okey Ogbodo, Commissioner for Chieftaincy Matters in Enugu State over purported issuance of certificate of recognition to one Chief Jack Nwatu. The event which was said to have taken…
Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike has warned ambassador of European Union (EU), telling her not to insult Nigeria regarding the report of the 2023 general elections results. Recall that in June, EU wrote a report about the 2023 general elections and faulted the exercise in numerous fronts. But Wike said the report did…
_Written by Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis and Abdulrahman Zakariyau._ The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 poll, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, said he did not betray President Bola Tinubu, over the allegation of certificate forgery he levelled against him at the court. Rather, he said the former Lagos State governor abandoned him as…
Kenneth Okonkwo, a Nigerian Actor, Lawyer, and Politician has replied to the National Broadcasting Corporation in response to Friday’s warning to Arise Television over what it called the use of derogatory and incendiary remarks on its programmes. In an open letter addressed to NBC’s Director-General, Dr. Balarabe Ilelah, Okonkwo said that the DG’s statement…
Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Tuesday said President Bola Tinubu weakened his education privacy rights when he submitted a contentious certificate to run for office in 2022. The judge said the need to confirm the genuineness or otherwise of the certificate Mr Tinubu submitted…
