A group, the Access to Justice (A2Justice), has sued President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief Justice Ibrahim Muhammad at the Federal High Court in Abuja over the nomination of four justices for elevation to the Supreme Court. It is praying the court to stop the process for violating applicable […]
The Presidency has welcomed the elucidation of the Supreme Court ruling on the PDP petition. In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, the Presidency reiterated that the onus of proof must necessarily fall on those that challenge the vote. He […]
The Supreme Court has held that President Muhammadu Buhari was right not to have submitted his academic credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The court, while giving the reason for dismissing the appeal by the PDP and Atiku Abubakar, held that Buhari was eminently qualified to […]
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar are absent in court as the Supreme Court begins proceedings to explain the dismissal of an appeal by the party and its candidate against an earlier decision of the Presidential Election Petition Court […]
Atiku Abubakar and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will know why their appeal challenging the judgment of two lower courts was dismissed by the Supreme Court on November 15. They had in a petition to the presidential election petitions tribunal challenged the victory of President Muhammadu […]
Renowned constitutional lawyer Prof Ben Nwabueze (SAN) on Wednesday faulted the Supreme Court judgment which validated President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the presidential election. He said former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was denied fair hearing. Nwabueze, in a statement, questioned the claim by […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to use his electoral victory at the Supreme Court on Wednesday to reconcile warring members of the party across Nigeria. Chief Eze Nwachukwu, state Chairman of the party, gave the advice on Thursday in Abakaliki while […]
The United States has seized a jet belonging to a Nigerian indicted in multi-million dollar international fraud. The jet was seized at the Peachtree DeKalb Airport in Georgia with a sealed sign placed on it. The sign reads: “This property is under detention and/or seizure, United States Customs Service.” The jet belonging to an unnamed […]
An operative of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, on Wednesday, narrated to a Federal High Court in Abuja, how a bank account and several properties were discovered in the name of Faisal, son of a former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. The official, Mohammed Goje, is a member of the Pension Fraud Team […]
Members of the National Assembly would henceforth be allocated N2.1trillion to execute constituency projects if a Bill that seeks to set aside 20 percent of the nation’s annual budgets for that purpose becomes law. The Senate on Wednesday passed for second reading a bill which seeks to legalize constituency projects and also dedicate at least […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday condemned the terrorist attack in Inates, western region of Niger Republic, near the Mali border, which resulted in the killing of 67 military personnel, with 34 people still unaccounted. Expressing deep shock and sadness over the heinous and despicable attack by terrorists that reportedly crossed in from neighboring Mali, President […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that nationals of all African countries can now enter Nigeria without a visa. Buhari said this in Egypt at the ongoing Aswan Forum, according to Ambassador Ahmed Awad, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Federal Republic of Somalia. Awad, who was at the Aswan Forum in a tweet said […]
