•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...
The candidate of the Labour party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, today said his dream for a new Nigeria has not ended with the October 26, 2023 verdict of the Supreme Court. Obi spoke at a press conference in Abuja about two weeks after the apex court affirmed the February 25, 2023 […]
•LP national chairman, Julius Abure With today’s judgment of the Supreme Court affirming the electoral victory of President Bola Tinubu, the Labour Party (LP) claimes the legislative and judicial arms of government have been hijacked by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). At a press briefing hours after the apex court dismissed the app...
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