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Plateau State Gov. Simon Lalong has said it will be stupid of him to lose the supplementary election scheduled for Saturday as he needs only 2000 out of 49000 votes to claim victory.  The Independent National Electoral (INEC) declared the Plateau governorship election, along with the elections in Bauchi, Kano, Sokoto, Benue and Adamawa, inconclusive, […]

The Residents Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Bauchi state, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would conduct a rerun governorship election in 15 affected local government areas Saturday, saying election would not hold in Tafawa Balewa local government, pending the decision of the Court. “On Saturday 23rd, rerun elections will […]

The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Ibrahim Mohammed has sworn-in the remaining 13 members of the 2019 Election Petition Tribunals. A statement from Mr Akande Festus, Supreme Court’s Director, Press and Information said that the ceremony took place on Thursday in Abuja at the Supreme Court. The members are Justices A.O. Onovo, R.O. […]

The Southern and Middle Belt leaders have thrown their weight behind the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar’s resolve to challenge outcome of the 2019 presidential poll in court. They also rejected outcome of the poll, saying President Muhammadu Buhari should bear a huge moral burden of the fraud that was […]

A High Court sitting in Yola has ordered the indefinite postponement of Adamawa State governorship supplementary election scheduled for Saturday. In his ruling, the judge, Abdul-azeez Waziri said the poll should be placed on hold pending his ruling on an interlocutory injunction barring the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting the polls. On March 14, […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has petitioned the National judicial Council (NJC) over the ex parte order, issued by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from concluding the governorship election in Bauchi State; saying the order violated the Constitution, and Section 87(11) of the Electoral […]

  Nigerian activist Deji Adeyanju on Tuesday said the founder of “Our Mumu Don Do” movement, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy is a fraud.  “Charly Boy is the number one Mumu in Nigeria. He compromised by collecting money from the government while I was locked up in prison by the oppressors,” Adeyanju said […]

After issuing a controversial order barring the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from resuming the collation and announcement of the election results in the Bauchi gubernatorial poll, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, yesterday refused to stop similar collation of results of Rivers State Governorship and House of Assembly election conducted by […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has again, on Wednesday, declined assent to five more Bills passed by the National Assembly. His latest rejection of the Bills brings to 26 the number of bills passed by the Eighth National Assembly and rejected by the President. In a letter addressed to Senate President Bukola Saraki and read at Wednesday […]

Catholic Bishops of Kaduna Ecclesiastical Province have appealed to the Kaduna State government to convene a stakeholders’ meeting to help address the incessant killings in Kajuru Local Council and other parts of the state; lamenting in a statement that, the resumption of what they considered as the mindless killings in the Kajuru area and parts […]

The Nigerian Army has faulted the position of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the role military personnel played during the governorship election in Rivers State. INEC in a recent report had said soldiers and armed gangs intimidated and unlawfully arrested the commission’s staff during the poll. But in a statement yesterday, the deputy […]

The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen has alleged that his Assets Declaration Form CCB1 submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) was tampered with by agents of the Federal Government. Onnoghen made the allegation at his resumed trial on alleged non-declaration of some of his assets before the Code of […]