•Trump The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration yesterday to freeze for now more than $4 billion in foreign assistance appropriated by Congress. The conservative-dominated court said upholding the president’s authority to conduct foreign affairs appears to “outweigh the potential harm” faced by the intended recipients of the aid m...
Nigeria’s Supreme Court held its first hearing in a high-profile blasphemy case today that defence lawyers hope will lead to a ruling that puts curbs on sharia law. Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a Sufi Muslim musician, was sentenced to death by a sharia court in Nigeria’s northern Kano State in 2020 for sharing song lyrics deemed to […]
The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Osun State chapter, has disclosed that the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation is plotting to “preempt the Supreme Court” by allegedly preparing to pay withheld local government allocations in Osun into the accounts of court-sacked All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmen...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has thrown its weight behind the indigenous Ijaw and Urhobo people of Warri Federal Constituency, strongly condemning what it described as the deliberate and illegal attempts by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to subvert the Supreme Court’s clear and binding judgemen...
•Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State The Osun State Government has filed a fresh suit at the Supreme Court against the Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), over the alleged unlawful withholding of statutory allocations due to its 30 local government councils since March 2025. The fresh suit filed on Monday comes months ...
•US President Donald Trump A divided US Supreme Court gave President Donald Trump the green light yesterday to resume dismantling the Education Department. The conservative-dominated court, in an unsigned order, lifted a stay that had been placed by a federal district judge on mass layoffs at the department, reports AFP. The three liberal just...
•Akpabio and Okpebholo President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON has congratulated the governor of Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, on his confirmation as the duly elected candidate in the September 2024 gubernatorial elections in Edo State. Akpabio, in a congratulatory message personally signed by him and copy made available...
•Godwin Obaseki Former Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has expressed strong reservations over the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld the election of Governor Monday Okpebholo, warning that the judgment could have serious implications for Nigeria’s democratic process. In a statement issued following the Supreme Court decision, Obaseki sa...
•Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Edo State, upholding the decision of the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The five-man panel led by Justice Mohammed Garba Lawal held that the appellants could not establish their […]...
•Asue Ighodalo and Monday Okpebholo The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in the legal tussle on Edo State Governorship Election Petition. The apex court adjourned the judgement sine die after taking arguments for and against the election that produced Senator Monday Okpebholo as the duly elected governor, reports Channels TV. Justice Garba...
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