A Rivers State High Court sitting in Isiokpo Division, Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state, has issued an interim order restraining the Rivers State House of Assembly and the Speaker of the House, Martin Amaewhule, from carrying out any actions with respect to the impeachment of the Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. Court also restrained the...
•Gabriel Suswam The Court of Appeal in Abuja has sacked the former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, from the Senate. In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel led by Justice Abimbola Adejumo, the court said it was satisfied that Suswam was not the valid winner of the senatorial election that was held in […]
•Sylva The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has reversed the nullification of the candidacy of Chief Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Binta Zubairu, who delivered the lead judgement held that Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, was wrong in ordering the sack of Sylva as a candidate of the APC […]
The United States (U.S.) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has foreclosed the possibility of making public any documents or information relating to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The FBI stated its position on the issue in a suit it filed before the United States District Court of Columbia by one Aaron Greenspan, who is seeking to […]
The court hearing involving Nigeria’s former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke in the United Kingdom, over bribery allegations has been adjourned to November 2025. The Westminster Magistrates Court adjourned hearing on the suit on Monday, October 30. 63-year-old Alison-Madueke is on trial for allegedly accepting a £...
Being text of a World Press Conference on the Presidential Election Petition Judgement by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Waziri Adamawa, former Vice President of Nigeria (1999-2007) and Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 Election, at the PDP Headquarters in Abuja on Monday, 30th October, 2023. Protocol. Gentlemen of the ...
•Atiku Abubakar The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has said that Nigeria as a nation is doomed. This is coming about 72 hours after the Supreme Court dismissed the former vice president’s appeal for lacking in merit and affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu, as the […...
•Diezani Alison-Madueke Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison- Madueke, will be hauled before a Southwark Crown Court judge tomorrow Monday to answer bribery charges and allegations of corruption from the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA). Earlier this month, she appeared before a Westminster Magistrate Court, from...
•Aishatu Dahiru and Hudu Yunusa-Ari An application by the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Senator Aisha Binani, seeking to stop the prosecution of the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commission, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, has been struck out by an Abuja Federal High Court. The court had previously given an interim...
•The 7 Supreme Court Justices A cross section of Nigerians – leaders of ethnic nationalities, religious leaders, lawyers and other groups have expressed mixed feelings over Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment which declared President Bola Tinubu winner of the election against the Presidential candidates of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Lab...

