•Embattled former CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele The Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has fixed December 12 for the hearing of an application filed by the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, challenging the jurisdiction of the court. Justice Rahman Oshodi fixed the date after his attention w...
•Senator Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele The Senate yesterday, revised the bill aimed at prohibiting the export of maize, introducing a provision for a minimum one-year jail term for individuals convicted of exporting unprocessed maize in large quantities. The amended bill, originating from the House of Representatives, seeks to ban the exportation o...
•Election in Nigeria The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) has announced that elections in the 18 local government areas and 203 wards of the state will be conducted on January 18, 2025. The Chairman of the Commission, Dr Joseph Aremo, announced the new date at a Stakeholders’ meeting held at the Commission’s headquarters in ...
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Kano has set nomination fees for chairmanship aspirants at N500,000 and N150,000 for willing councillors, with expression of interest fees set at N100,000 and N50,000, respectively. The party’s Chairman in Kano State, Hashim Sulaiman Dungurawa, made this known while briefing newsmen today. He expressed ...
A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilọrin, the Kwara State capital, today fixed August 2, 2024 for judgement in the bloody April 5, 2018 Offa robbery attack. The development is coming after a protracted trial that had lasted over five years, reports Daily Trust. Presiding judge, Haleeman Salman, today adopted the final written addresses [&hel...
•APC national chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today slated September 18 to deliver judgement in a suit seeking the removal of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after counsel for the respective parties adopted their brief of a...
•A ballot box In the wake of series of crises which have rocked the state, the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) has fixed October 5, 2024, for local government elections in the oil-rich state. RSIEC chairman Adolphus Enebelisaid this during a stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt today, reports Channels TV. Enebeli emphas...
•Abdullahi Ganduje Justice Abdullahi Muhammad Liman of the Federal High Court, Kano, has set May 28 as the date for the hearing of a substantive application filed by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje. Ganduje is contesting his suspension from the party by factional ward executives led by Basiru Nuh...
•Ganduje A High Court in Kano State, on Tuesday, fixed May 27, 2024, to hear three applications regarding the suspension of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. It will be recalled that on April 17, the court granted an order directing parties to maintain the status quo […]
•Education Minister Prof. Tahir Mamman The federal government has directed that admission to tertiary institutions should not be given to candidates less than 18 years. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, gave the directive today during a monitoring exercise of the ongoing 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Bw...

