The federal government has set up a 10-member committee to enforce the Supreme Court judgment delivered on July 11, 2024 granting financial autonomy to Local Governments in Nigeria. Director, Information & Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation OSGF, Segun Imohiosen disclosed this today in Abuja...
•Sylva and Ajaka A five-man panel of the Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the Kogi and Bayelsa States governorship elections appeals filed by Muritala Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Both Ajaka and Sylva challenged the declarations made by the Independent Electoral Com...
•Justice Ariwoola Olukayode A Valedictory Court Session for the retiring Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola (GCON), will be held on Thursday, August 22, 2024, a spokesman for the apex court said. Festus Akande also said the Supreme Court’s 2023/2024 legal year ended on Friday, July 19, 2024, reports Channels TV. He said the [...
•Biden US President Joe Biden announced plans today for urgent reforms to the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, in a bold but long-shot move as he seeks to make a mark in his last six months in power. The 81-year-old Democrat is calling for a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court’s recent ruling backing Donald Trump’s [&hel...
•Justice Amina Augie A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Amina Augie, and senior lawyers have decried the growing practice of indecent dressing by female lawyers in the country. Justice Augie, former Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice in Sokoto State, Suleiman Usman (SAN) and a member of the Governing Council of the Niger...
•Governor Ademola Adeleke Four hundred and one chairmen and members of caretaker committees running Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas in Osun State have all resigned their positions. Those that resigned include; 69 caretaker chairmen and 332 caretaker members drawn from each of the 332 wards in the state. Letters of re...
•Ghanaian Flag Ghana’s Supreme Court today deferred its ruling on a request to restrain parliament from transmitting a highly contested anti-LGBTQ bill to President Nana Akufo-Addo for his final approval. The ruling means debate around the bill, which has dominated Ghana’s political discourse since parliament passed it in February, will be sid...
•APGA chairman, Edozie Njoku The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Edozie Njoku, has adduced reasons why those he referred as big men, are kicking against the Supreme Court judgement that granted financial autonomy to the 774 Local Government Areas, LGAs, in the country. Njoku, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja after ...
•Atiku A support group of former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, under the aegis of The Nigeria Youths For Atiku (NYFA), has flayed the Supreme Court ruling granting local government autonomy, describing it as a smokescreen to distract Nigerians from the real issues of hunger, terrorism and starvation currently ravaging the country. The suppor...
Uncertainty surrounds the fate of local government caretaker committees in 20 states of the federation following Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment that outlawed their existence. In the landmark judgment, the apex court granted local governments both administrative and fiscal autonomies, declaring that they can only be governed by democraticall...
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