The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has challenged the competence of a petition the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Peter Obi, filed to nullify his election. Tinubu, in a preliminary objection he filed alongside his Vice-President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, maintained that Obi was bereft of the locus standing to file a...
Labour Party (LP) said its presidential candidate Peter Obi is being impersonated in London which forms the basis of his detention. According to the Labour Party, Obi, just back from London, United Kingdom where he celebrated Easter, confirmed that he was harassed by London immigration officials and placed for detention...
The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has filed a petition before a Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for declaring Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) winner of the March 18 election. The petitioner in a...
The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating alleged crude oil sales revenue loss has summoned the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami to appear before as part of it’s ongoing investigation. Chairman...
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, was detained in London, United Kingdom, where he celebrated Easter, Head, Obi-Datti Media, Mr. Diran Onifade, has revealed. Onifade in a statement on Wednesday also said Obi was harassed by London immigration officials and placed on detention. According to him,...
says Prosperity Government has done well confident of re-election in November Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has emerged the standard bearer of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) for his re-election in November this year. In the guber primaries conducted by the PDP panel headed by the Governor of Osun...
Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa has described the Forensics Laboratory of the Commission as the best in Sub-saharan Africa. He stated this in Abuja on Wednesday, April 5, 2023 when members of the Cadet Course 72 of the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA,...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) is asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dismiss the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Mister Peter Obi. APC faulted the petition on many grounds. It also challenged the court’s jurisdiction to hear the petition on the grounds that it...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has rubbished Senator Dino Melaye’s alleged governorship ambition, saying the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain does not have what it takes to contest for the Kogi state’s governorship. Wike disclose this during a live media chat with selected journalists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. He...
The immediate-past managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, has disclosed that the renewal of the capital dredging contract and the service boat management contract were responsible for her removal from office by a former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. Bala-Usman was suspended from office in May...