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…
Although the appeal filed by Peter Obi and Labour Party to the Supreme Court against the Judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) is based on fifty-one (51) grounds of appeal, the major complaints they raised against the Judgment are as follows; that: The PEPC was wrong when it struck out the witness statements…
THE Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday sacked Governor Abba Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) while declaring the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasiru Gawuna, winner of the election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared that the NNPP polled 1,019,602 votes to defeat the APC with…
By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi I detest political cultism, which the Kwankwasiyya movement represents, and also resent Governor Abba Yusuf’s incipient governance by destructive vengeance, which saw him remorselessly destroying multimillion-naira buildings belonging to political opponents in his first few weeks in power, but the verdict that overturned his victory strikes me as deficient in…
Nnewi – A pastor of Deeper Life Bible Church, 84, Nnobi Road, Nnewi, Anambra State, Ogueze Venitius Chinyerugo, has resigned as the district pastor of the church on account of the apparent support of the general superintendent and head of the church, William Kumuyi, for the government of President Bola Tinubu, exemplified by recent comments…
By Bolanle Olabimtan The court of appeal in Abuja has set aside the judgment of the national and state houses of assembly election tribunal in Asaba. The tribunal had declared Ndudi Elumelu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the 2023 election for Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency, Delta state. In a judgment on…
By Law Mefor The 2023 General Election will go down in history as the most significant opportunity lost in the country’s electoral history. Going by the presidential tribunal judgement, the general election is just another disturbing illustration of the tactics utilised by the cabal in Nigeria that has been in control of the country’s state…
