President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said despite the people of the Federal Capital Territory rejecting him by voting for Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar in the February 23 presidential poll, he would secure the territory, being the President. Buhari jokingly said this when a delegation from the FCT paid him a Sallah homage at the…
Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has restated his commitment to serve the people of the state, stressing that the time for sharing public funds to “a few greedy politicians” in the state was over. The governor, according to a statement on Tuesday, said this when he received Muslim faithful who were at the Government…
A court has seized the sum of £211m traced to the late General Sani Abacha, which was found in a Jersey bank account on Channels Island. According to Metro UK, the late Head of State laundered money through the US into the Channel Islands. The money was put in accounts held in Jersey by Doraville Properties…
The Coalition of United Political Parties on Tuesday backed the use of secret ballot system to elect the leadership of the Ninth National Assembly. The spokesman of the CUPP, Imo Ugochinyere, told journalists in Abuja that the secret ballot is the only way to stop desperate godfathers from imposing their stooges as leaders of the…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday praised Nigerians over the “conduct of peaceful elections” this year. He said this was in spite of what he called “doomsday predictions of social disharmony” that there might be no elections at all. His position was contained in a message to mark today’s Eid-el-Fitr celebrations. A statement by his Senior…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday fixed Friday for judgment on a suit filed by the immediate-past governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission’s refusal to issue him a certificate of return as the senator-elect for the Imo West Senatorial District. Justice Okon Abang fixed the date for…
President Muhammadu Buhari has finally opened up on the National Judicial Council’s recommendation on the erstwhile Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. The court documents filed on behalf of the Federal Government, Attorney General of the Federation and Buhari revealed that the NJC recommended Onnoghen’s compulsory retirement. The documents obtained by our correspondent on Monday,…
The Imo state governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has given the immediate past Governor of Imo, Rochas Okorocha up to midnight of Tuesday, June 4, 2019, to do a proper handover to his government. Ihedioha spoke at the Government House in Owerri, during the swearing into office of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Uche Onyeaguocha…
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Odigie-Oyegun, has criticised the leadership style of his successor and incumbent National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. According to him, Oshiomhole lacks the temperament and capacity to run a political party. Odigie-Oyegun stated this in his response to a communique issued by the South-South APC State Chairmen,…
The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have appealed to the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, to appoint her replacement on the five-man panel of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. They stated in a letter sent to Bulkachuwa on Friday (May 31), a copy of which was…