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…
The Leadership Scorecard’s Perspectives with Uzu Okagbue – an explosive media expository, depicting the Igbo political situation in Nigeria and the way forward out of the doldrums. If there is one Igbo leader who seems to be reading the hieroglyphics of the politics of times right in Nigeria, then that Igbo man is Uzu Okagbue….
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has warned President Bola Tinubu of the dangers ahead and cautioned him that the recent coup waves in Francophone African countries are warnings over the continuous declarations of fraudulent election results in Africa, bad governments, lack of respect to the Constitution by political elites and the West imposition…
