•Libyan and Nigerian flags Following the verdict delivered by the Confederation of African Football in response to the complaint lodged by the Nigeria Football Federation over the recent inhumane treatment meted out to the Super Eagles in Libya, members of the Nigerian community have reported mass arrests and fines in the country. The Nigerian...
•Nigeria’s Super Eagles Nigeria were awarded three goals and three points, and Libya was fined $50,000 as the Confederation of African Football finally announced its verdict on the botched 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Group D qualifying fixture scheduled for October 15 in Benina, Libya, yesterday. The verdict followed an intense and seemin...
•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...
•Nigeria’s Supreme Court More states of the federation have affirmed dates for the conduct of local government elections in their domain. The move is seen as a bid to put the states in a good stead to evade any possible hammer in the wake of the July 11 ruling of the Supreme Court on local […]
•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...
•Some governors Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State says governors will review the Supreme Court verdict that granted financial autonomy to local government councils. Soludo spoke yesterday after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the State House in Abuja and described the verdict by the apex court as “great”, reports Channels TV. “T...
The Supreme Court has refused to order the release of the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. The panel of justices of the court today nullified the earlier order of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which ordered Kanu’s release on bail. In the judgment written by Justice […]
The Niger Delta Youth Congress (NDYC) yesterday Saturday, December 9, faulted the decisions of the Court of Appeal on the governorship disputes in Plateau, Kano and Zamfara states. The youths, which cited verdicts on governorship elections in Kano, Plateau and Zamfara states, said discriminatory application of legal standards between the North...
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