•IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu and his lawyers in court Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu who is currently being detained has opposed the request by the federal government for the resumption of his trial. Kanu’s lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, revealed in a post on X yesterday. According to him, his client Kanu […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected the request by Rivers State Government to stay proceedings in a suit seeking to stop allocation of funds to all the Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Rivers State. In a ruling today, Justice Joyce Abdulmalik held that the application for stay made by lawyer to the Government […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has agreed to move the inspection of election materials to tomorrow to allow the party prepare itself. The chairman of the APC in Edo State, Jarret Tenebe and the legal counsel, Victor Ohiosumwan, confirmed to journalists that they did no...
World football’s governing body FIFA made no verdict either way today on a Palestinian request to suspend Israel, instead launching committee investigations to inform an eventual decision. At FIFA’s congress in Bangkok in May, the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) called for its Israeli counterpart to be suspended and for Israeli teams to...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has declined assent to a bill seeking to extend the tenure of service of legislative officers at the National Assembly, as well as the 36 state Houses of Assembly from 35 to 40 years and their retirement age from 60 to 65 years. The president’s declined assent was conveyed in a […]
•Jimi Lawal A Magistrate’s Court in Abuja has granted the application of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to keep Mr. Jimi Lawal, an ally of ex-Governor Nasir El-Rufai, in custody for 14 days. The commission opted to detain Lawal because he could not meet the bail terms, reports The Nation. [&helli...
•House of Representatives Following a request by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to add N6.2 trillion to the 2024 budget, the House of Representatives has passed the amended budget, increasing it from N28.7 trillion to N35.5 trillion. President Bola Tinubu in his letter last week sought the National Assembly to add N6.2 trillion to the existing [&...
•Embattled Emefiele Justice Hamza Muazu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), sitting at Maitama, Abuja, today dismissed the application filed by former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, seeking the leave of the court to travel abroad for medical leave. The embattled Emefiele is being prosecuted by th...
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has urged the federal government to immediately propose amendments to the Samoa Agreement or withdraw from it, if such amendments were not accepted. This is contained in a statement titled, ‘Threats to the sovereignty and values of Nigeria in the Samoa Agreement’ issued today and jointly signed...
•House of Representatives There was a heated debate at the House of Representatives today over the request by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to extend the implementation period for the capital component of the N21.83trillion 2023 budget and those of the N2.17trillion 2023 supplementary budgets to December 2024. The letter to that effect was read ...
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