Ramadan: Atiku urges Muslims to seek spiritual guidance, peace
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has called on Muslims in Nigeria and the world to use the holy month of Ramadan to seek spiritual guidance and sacrifice to the cause of peace. Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate in the just concluded elections, gave the advice in a statement personally issued by him on Thursday in Abuja. Abubakar, who...
UK court finds Ekweremadu, wife, others guilty of organ harvesting
Former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, wife, daughter and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. The 60-year-old politician, 60, his wife, Beatrice, 56, daughter Sonia 25, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with...
2023 governorship polls: How election was won, lost in States
The 2023 governorship and State Houses of Assembly Elections may have ended and winners declared in most of the States of the federation but many questions have been left unanswered. Prominent among the questions is the capability of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct free, fair and credible elections Nigerians can be proud of. Most Nigerians, international communities, non-governmental...
INEC used 3rd party device to switch results for Tinubu — Atiku
Atiku, in a 66-page petition lodged before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, further alleged that INEC had prior to the election, redeployed its in-house ICT expert, Mr Chidi Nwafor, and replaced him with an IT Consultant that helped it install the third-party mechanism. According to Atiku, the said IT Consultant, Mr...
Polls: Delta YPP gov candidate to drag Nigeria to EU, others
The Delta State governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, Sunny Ofehe, has expressed his dissatisfaction with the just concluded February 25 and March 18 elections in the country. The governorship candidate of the People Democratic Party, Sheriff Oborevwori, who is the Speaker of the state House of Assembly had 360,234 votes to defeat other candidates including the candidate of...
Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Thursday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has finally concluded plans to release all N1,000, N500 and N200 notes in its custody to Deposit Money Banks. This decision is expected to end months of hardships and pains Nigerians have been going through following a controversial CBN naira redesign policy that has...
Aggrieved parties file 25 pettions before Lagos election tribunal
Aggrieved parties have so far filed 25 petitions before the Lagos State National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the petitions were pasted on the wall of the Rosaline Omotosho Courthouse Ikeja, venue of the tribunal sitting. In one of the petitions, the candidates of the Labour Party for Federal House...
No cash in banks despite CBN’s N1tr in circulation claim
DESPITE a claim by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele that the apex bank has pushed nearly N1 trillion into circulation, Nigerians continue experience scarcity. Many branches of the Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) complain of inadequate allocation of cash from the CBN on daily basis. Emefiele told reporters after the end of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting at...
Hoodlums set court ablaze in Ebonyi
Hoodlums suspected to be political thugs have set ablaze a state High Court in Owutu-Edda, Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi. Mrs Oluchi Uduma, the Registrar of the court confirmed the incident to newsmen in Owutu-Edda on Tuesday. She said that the hoodlums invaded the court on Tuesday and set the building ablaze. Uduma explained that the court building, documents and...
FG loses suit to recover N70tn loot over poor handling
Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out the Federal Government’s suit seeking to recover and forfeit the sum of N70tn it alleged was stashed in 29 bank accounts by looters. The judge stated that the Federal Government’s lawyers and the private lawyers which it subsequently gave a fiat, did not diligently prosecute the case. The...
