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Finally, President Buhari is meeting the expectations of diehard supporters. These are people who faithfully and anxiously have been loyal to that stubborn, indiscriminate and incorrigible anti-corruption fighter, the man who in 1984 bundled all the leaders of Nigeria into jail on accounts that serving civilian government of the Second Republic were adjudged to be […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki, has described his All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial challenger for Kwara Central Senatorial District, Dr. Ibrahim Oloriegbe, as a seasonal politician without content and capacity to upstage him in the February 16 National Assembly election. Oloriegbe had, while addressing a press conference in Lagos, decried the socio-economic situation of Kwara State, […]

The Nigerian government has warned against foreign interference into the nation’s affairs, capable of creating apprehension, distrust among citizens or undermining the transparency and acceptability of outcomes of the nation’s electoral process. Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, issued the warning in a statement on Saturday. The statement was […]

All but one of the remaining 15 Justices of the Supreme Court boycotted the installation ceremony of the 250 appointed Chairmen and members of the Election Petition Tribunals by the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad. www.www.aso.rocks search engine learnt that only Justice Sidi Bage attended the event. The other 14 Supreme […]

Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described as a face-saving measure, the decision by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pull the brakes on its electioneering campaign over the suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen, saying the PDP’s campaign never gained traction in the first instance. The said it has suspended its election campaigns […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open petition to the Next-In-Rank to the Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC) urging the NJC “to immediately take over from the Code of Conduct Tribunal the case of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen with a view to setting up a committee to […]

The United States of America has expressed concern about the suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen by President Buhari. US expressed its concerns on Saturday in a statement. According to the statement posted on its website, the suspension undercuts the stated determination of government, candidates, and political party leaders to ensure that […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, disclosed that that millions of dollars have been traced to the accounts of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. In a speech at the swearing in of the acting CJN, Tanko Mohammed, Buhari dwelt extensively on the corruption case against Onnoghen and how lawyers and some judges have […]

Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, one of the 73 presidential candidates in next month’s election has quit the race, in a shock announcement Thursday morning. Her spokesman Ozioma Ubabukoh, said the former minister and vice-president of the World Bank stepped aside to help build a coalition to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic […]

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki have rejected the action by President Muhammadu Buhari, suspending Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed as acting CJN. The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) called the […]

The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as dubious and misleading, a communiqué by the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo endorsing the candidacy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the February 16 election. APC spokesman, Lanre Issa-Onilu told a news conference in Abuja on Friday that the […]

In the on-going trial of the former Governor of Katsina State, Alhaji Shehu Shema and three others, a former chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, in the State, Mallam Lawal Ibrahim Dankaba, yesterday told the Katsina State High Court hearing the case that he was made an accomplice in the matter […]