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Attacks On Our Offices Won’t Stop 2023 Election – INEC Boss, Yakubu
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Monday, assured that attacks on its facilities won’t stop the conduct of the 2023 election. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, gave the assurance at a meeting with the Africa Union Special Pre-Electoral Political Mission led by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Yakubu said though some election materials were destroyed in the attacks, the commission would replace them. READ...
62 New SANs Sworn In By CJN Olukayode Ariwoola
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, on Monday, sworn in 62 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) in Abuja. Some of the lawyers conferred with the SAN rank were, Mr Mustapha Ibrahim, Mr Ikani Kanu-Agabi and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) lawyers Mr Sylvanus Tahir and Mr Rotimi Oyedepo. The CJN urged the new SANs to take...
Alex Otti’s Campaign Council Chairman, Hon. Nnanna Ngwu Is Dead
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti has lost his campaign council chairman, Hon. Mazi Nnanna Ngwu, ABN TV reports. Hon. Ngwu died on 23rd November 2022 in an undisclosed hospital in Owerri, Imo state after a brief illness. He hails from Amuvi in Arochukwu LGA, Abia State. READ ALSO: Clashes: Chief Dan Okeke Urges Ohafia...
Court Sends APGA Factional Leader Edozie Njoku To Prison
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has ordered that a factional leader of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Edozie Njoku, and one other be remanded in prison over their alleged complicity in the forgery of a judgment of the Supreme Court. Justice Mohammed Magudu, in a ruling on Monday, ordered that Njoku and his co-defendant, Chukwuemeka...
Gov. Adeleke Sacks Three Traditional Rulers Appointed By His Predecessor, Suspends OSIEC Chairman
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has dethroned three monarchs appointed by his predecessor, Adegboyega Oyetola. Former Governor Oyetola had appointed several monarch few weeks before handing over government to Adeleke. These, including Akirun of Ikirun, Oba Yinusa Akadiri, Aree of Iree, Oba Ademola Oluponle and Oba Adegboyega Famodun. The former governor also approved the appointment of 30 permanent secretaries into the...
Nigerians Always Looking For Opportunity To Leave The Country, Not That Anything Is Wrong — Presidency
Presidential aide Femi Adesina is not moved by the recent wave of migration, sayings many Nigerians have always wanted to leave the country. He spoke on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, maintaining that the situation does not apply to Nigeria alone. “The average Nigerian had always wanted to leave. And it is not just in Nigeria. It is in most countries of...
Sen. Kalu Hails Bishop Onuoha On Election As Christian Council Of Nigeria President
Former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has congratulated the Anglican Archbishop of Owerri Diocese, the Most Rev. David Onuoha on his election as the National President of the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN), describing it as a welcome development. Acknowledging the contributions of Onuoha to the spread of Christianity across the...
Clashes: Chief Dan Okeke Urges Ohafia Youths To Sheath Their Sword
The APC candidate for House of Representatives, Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency, Chief Dan Okeke has appealed to the youths in Ohafia to sheath their sword as he has initiated efforts to restore lasting peace in the community. This follows an incessant crisis between the community and the military which according to him has led to the loss of lives on both...
Aisha Yesufu Carpets Buhari’s Wife Aisha Over Twitter User’s Arrest
Social activist, Aisha Yesufu, has slammed Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, for allegedly ordering the arrest and detention of Aminu Muhammed over an alleged defamatory social media post. Muhammed, who is a final-year student in the Department of Environmental Management and Toxicology, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State, had in June tweeted in Hausa “Su mama anchi kudin talkawa ankoshi” loosely...
Honour Your Words, Free Nnamdi Kanu – HURIWA Tells Buhari
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has told President Muhammadu Buhari to free Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The Civil rights advocacy group’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement on Sunday, challenged the President to be a man of his word by leaving the judiciary to decide on Kanu’s fate without any...
