•Senator Victor Umeh The Senator representing Anambra Central in the National Assembly, Victor Umeh, says the Supreme Court judgement on the Labour Party (LP) leadership crisis has shut the door on Julius Abure as the party’s chairman. Umeh, who was a guest on Channels Television yesterday, said that Abure should take the admonishment of the [...
•Supreme Court The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the Supreme Court to redeem the judiciary’s waning public image by adjudicating judiciously on the matter challenging President Bola Tinubu’s proclamation of a state of emergency in Rivers State and the suspension of Siminilayi Fubara as governor of the state...
•Tinubu A total of 11 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party have approached the Supreme Court challenging what powers President Bola Tinubu has to suspend a democratically elected structure of a state. The suit filed by the governors also challenges the declaration of a state of emergency rule in Rivers State. While the media previously [&...
•Julius Abure The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja recognising Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP). In a unanimous judgment, a five-member panel of the apex court held that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to have pronounced Abure National Chairman […]
•Benue State House of Assembly complex The Benue State House of Assembly has passed a resolution to approach the Supreme Court for the interpretation of Section 292 (1) A (11) as it pertains to the removal of a Chief Judge. The Majority Leader of the House, Saater Tiseer, during the plenary yesterday, described as an […]
•Samuel Anyanwu The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, today, gave Senator Samuel Anyanwu seven days to tender before it, the judgement of the Supreme Court he said restored him as the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the directive after Anyanwu’s lead counsel, Chief Ken Njamanze, SAN, drew [&...
Piqued by the alleged misinterpretation of the Supreme Court on the PDP National Secretary, some lawyers have decried what they described as the mischievous stand of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson, Hon Debo Ologunagba on last Friday’s judgement of the Supreme Court which reinstated Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the party’s nation...
Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have filed a lawsuit at the Supreme Court challenging President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. The president on March 18 declared the emergency rule, citing Section 305(5) of the Nigerian Constitution, 1999 and suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy N...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received the judgment of the Supreme Court which affirmed that the issue of Party leadership positions, including that of the National Secretary is entirely an internal affair of the Party requiring only the Party internal mechanism to which the courts have no juris...
•Wike and Anyanwu The spokesperson for the Opposition Coalition, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, has declared that the recent Supreme Court judgment regarding the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has given the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) the authority to remove him without the possibility of legal...

