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The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the February 23, election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have kept their vow to appeal the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s rejection of their request to access the “central server” which they alleged housed the results of the poll electronically transmitted by the Independent National …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, called its third witness in a Federal High Court Lagos, in the trial of Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, facing money laundering charges. Nwoboshi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, is the senator representing Delta north in the National Assembly. EFCC had re-arraigned …

Ahead of the judgment of the Supreme Court on the Osun State governorship tussle scheduled to be delivered next Friday (July 5), an Abuja-based civil society group, the Guardian of Democracy and Development Initiative, has alleged that some persons particularly top politicians have been dropping President Muhammadu Buhari’s name in …

The Presidential Election Tribunal on Monday rejected the request by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his party to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission to allow them access to the server used for this year’s presidential election. In a ruling on the application, the …

Justice Ayokunle Faji of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest and production in court of CEO of Innosson Nigeria Ltd, Innocent Chukwuma and two others, over fraud allegations. The Nation Newspaper

The Supreme Court on Friday voided laws enacted by the states’ Houses of Assembly which allow governors to sack elected chairmen of local governments and councillors and replace them with appointed administrators, according to Therepublicannews.net reports. It has become a tradition among governors to dissolve the Executive Councils of the …

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has declared that no part of Nigeria is safe. NBA President, Paul Usoro, SAN, made the declaration while delivering an address at the association’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting, which held at the NBA secretariat in Abuja. Usoro cited three instances where members of the …

IJAW Youth Council, IYChas decried alleged poor representation of Ijaw in the Bench in Delta State, alleging that at the moment out of the 30 judges in the state, only three were Ijaws. National President, IYC, Pereotubo Oweilaemi, in a statement , called on the state judiciary to redress the …

The charges were filed by the Office of the Department of Public Prosecutions, Federal Ministry of Justice on Monday. A copy of the charges was obtained on Thursday. It shows that Nwaoboshi is to be tried for allegedly making false assets declaration in his Form CCB1 submitted to the Code …

The Code of Conduct Tribunal on Tuesday fixed July 4 for the arraignment of former Speaker of Bayelsa State, Kombowei Benson and four other serving and former staff of the assembly over alleged abuse of office. Those to be charged alongside the speaker are former Clerk of assembly, Aaron Timiye …