INEC: No 2023 election timetable without new Electoral Act
The nation's electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that it won't release the 2023 general election timetable until the Electoral Act Amendment Bill is signed into law. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the revelation on Tuesday in Abuja, during the commission's first quarterly consultative meeting with political parties. His words: "On the Electoral Amendment Bill currently...
BREAKING: Court grants Mompha N200m bail
The Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, has granted popular Dubai-based billionaire, Ismaila Mustapha, well known as Mompha, a bail of N200 million with two sureties in the like sum. Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court, on Tuesday, granted the bail application filed by Mompha’s lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole, SAN. In her ruling, Justice Dada ordered that one...
Kanu’s trial: Security operatives harass journalists
There was pandemonium around the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday as the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) harassed and pursued journalists who gathered at the court to report the proceedings of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Nnamdi Kanu, who...
PDP’ll definitely produce Nigerian’s next President – Ayu
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has urged Nigerians to keep faith with the party, saying that it is poised to produce the nation’s next president. Ayu gave the assurance in Port Harcourt at the gala night hosted by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers for PDP governors. The governors met on Monday but had the gala...
2023: Why I’m supporting Osinbajo not Tinubu – Presidential Adviser, Babafemi Ojudu
Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has justified why he is not supporting the presidential ambition of National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Ojudu, an associate of Tinubu, has pitched his tent with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, in the race for the APC ticket. The journalist turned politician on Tuesday stated...
Lawyer faces trial over N105m money laundering
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a female lawyer, Anumati Stella Ojevwe, before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State. Ojevwe was arraigned on a 14-count charge of money laundering on Friday, January 14, 2022. The defendant is alleged to have received the sum of N105 million from SA-FX Global investment. One of the...
Electoral Bill: Override Buhari’s veto, PDP govs tell N’Assembly
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors have charged the National Assembly to quickly conclude deliberations on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill either by overriding Mr President's veto or deleting areas of complaints. In a communique issued on Monday after the meeting of the PDP Governors’ Forum in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, they advised that the option of sustaining...
APC crisis consumes Govs’ Forum DG, Salihu Lukman
The Director-General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has resigned. PGF is the umbrella body of governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Lukman has been vehement in his criticism of the Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee over the party’s national convention. The former DG had accused the committee of tactically delaying the convention. The...
Dismissed soldier, other to die by hanging for robbery
An Ado Ekiti High Court on Monday sentenced Damilola Olasoji, a dismissed soldier and Koiki Benson, 32, to death by hanging for robbery. The police said Olasoji, Benson and Ogbesetuyi Tunde, 30, on March 10, 2016 conspired and robbed Mr. Oluwadare Adebayo at a Filling Station in Odo-Ado, Ado Ekiti and stole N1.2 million. Delivering judgement, Justice Lekan Ogunmoye held that the...
COVID-19 forces 160m more people into poverty – Oxfam
Oxfam, an international charitable NGO, has revealed that the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic seen the incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall with over 160 million more people forced into poverty. The pandemic has, however, helped in doubling the fortunes of the world’s 10 richest people. The NGO gave the statistics ahead of the World Economic Forum’s...
