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  Nigerian activist Deji Adeyanju on Tuesday said the founder of “Our Mumu Don Do” movement, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy is a fraud.  “Charly Boy is the number one Mumu in Nigeria. He compromised by collecting money from the government while I was locked up in prison by the oppressors,” Adeyanju said […]

After issuing a controversial order barring the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from resuming the collation and announcement of the election results in the Bauchi gubernatorial poll, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, yesterday refused to stop similar collation of results of Rivers State Governorship and House of Assembly election conducted by […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has again, on Wednesday, declined assent to five more Bills passed by the National Assembly. His latest rejection of the Bills brings to 26 the number of bills passed by the Eighth National Assembly and rejected by the President. In a letter addressed to Senate President Bukola Saraki and read at Wednesday […]

Catholic Bishops of Kaduna Ecclesiastical Province have appealed to the Kaduna State government to convene a stakeholders’ meeting to help address the incessant killings in Kajuru Local Council and other parts of the state; lamenting in a statement that, the resumption of what they considered as the mindless killings in the Kajuru area and parts […]

The Nigerian Army has faulted the position of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the role military personnel played during the governorship election in Rivers State. INEC in a recent report had said soldiers and armed gangs intimidated and unlawfully arrested the commission’s staff during the poll. But in a statement yesterday, the deputy […]

The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen has alleged that his Assets Declaration Form CCB1 submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) was tampered with by agents of the Federal Government. Onnoghen made the allegation at his resumed trial on alleged non-declaration of some of his assets before the Code of […]

The acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad has said that President Muhammadu Buhari does not require the permission of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to appoint him as acting CJN. He also made a startling disclosure that he was not aware CJN Walter Onnoghen was suspended before he (Tanko) was sworn in. […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have filed a petition challenging the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the Feb 23, 2019 presidential election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).  The petition was filed at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on the premises of the Court […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday insisted they both would win Saturday’s supplementary election in Benue, Sokoto, Kano, Plateau, Adamawa and Rivers States. In separate statements yesterday the ruling and opposition parties advanced arguments to prove that only a favorable outcome was possible. “In Benue, it is clear that […]

For the second time within one week, Bauchi Governor, Mohammed Abubakar on Monday stormed the Presidential Villa in Abuja to brief President Muhammadu Buhari on the security implications of the decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), to cancel supplementary elections in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of the state; which will all but […]

The Nigeria Police Force has debunked rumors that it has commenced exercise screening for applicants who applied as police constable last November. “The Commission…is surprised to note that some Nigerians besieged the State Commands of the Nigeria Police throughout the country for a screening exercise not scheduled by the Commission and for which no applicant […]

The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen on Monday was present for his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), after attending to health challenges. His trial had been adjourned on Tuesday, 12 March following his absence on health grounds. According to Onnoghen’s lawyer Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), the suspended CJN was suffering […]