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BREAKING! Rivers Crisis: Appeal Court nullifies expulsion of 25 Pro-Wike Lawmakers from House of Assembly
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the expulsion of Martin Amaewhule and 24 others from the Rivers State House of Assembly by the Rivers State High Court. WESTERN POST reports that a three-member panel of the appellate court held that the lower court lacked the jurisdiction to grant the exparte order. The court held that Section 272(3)…
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BREAKING! Edo Guber: Court nullifies PDP primary election
The Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election that produced Asue Ighodalo as its governorship candidate. WESTERN POST reports that the primary election conducted on February 22, 2024, was voided on the ground that 378 delegates who were supposed to vote at the primary election were unlawfully excluded by PDP. Justice Inyang Ekwo…
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VIDEO: Senate Minority Leader allegedly confesses to vote buying in 2023 elections
Senate minority leader Olalere Oyewumni has allegedly admitted to engaging in vote buying in the 2023 election. Olalere made the alleged confession in a trending video online. The Osun Senator while receiving defectors into PDP, said “I tried all the tricks I knew to win at Onilu House (Ile Onilu) polling unit but these people didn’t allow me”. View this…
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Open letter to Northern politicians, By Salihu Lukman
The living reality in Northern Nigeria is very explosive. If anyone is interested in finding the practical meaning of the Hobbesian description of life being ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’, just look at what life is in Northern Nigeria. Indices of poverty, unemployment, inequality are beyond description. Conditions of schools and hospitals is, to say the least, depressing. The…
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LG Polls: KWASIEC insists on supervision of party primaries
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASIEC) has said it must involved in the primaries of the political parties ahead of the local government elections. The election body threatened to invalidate results of primaries its officials do not supervise. Chairman of the Commission, Baba Okanla, made this known in a statement on Friday in Ilorin. “Kwara State…
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FCT Council Chairmen, Councillors will remain in Office till 2026- INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the council chairmen and councillors in the Federal Capital Territory would remain in office till 2026. Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the clarification at a meeting with the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) on Friday in Abuja, following the agitation for the conduct of fresh elections in the FCT.…
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LG Polls: KWASIEC extends deadline for party primaries to July 4
By Mosunmola Ayobami,Ilorin Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASIEC) has announced the extension in the date of political parties primaries to Thursday July 4th this year. The Umpire has earlier pegged the date for deadline of primaries to Sunday June 30th. This was contained in a statement signed by the Chairman of the Commission Baba Okanla on Thursday in Ilorin.…
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Senate passes bill for Act to amend 2023 supplementary appropriation bill till Dec 31
The Senate on Thursday passed a bill for an Act to amend the implementation of the 2023 supplementary appropriation bill till December 31st, 2024. The passage followed the emergency plenary convened which was presided by the President of the Senate, Senator Godwill Akpabio. After clause by clause consideration of the bill and after the Committee of Supply, the bill was…
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Former Kogi Gov. Bello requests trial in state court
By Innocent Raphael The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has requested to be tried by the state’s high court, after he was absent from his scheduled arraignment and plea bargain at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday. In a letter presented to the court, Bello expressed a preference to be tried in his home state.…
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LP, best platform for Obi to emerge victorious in 2027- National Vice Chairman
The Labour Party’s National Vice Chairman, Ayo Olorunfemi, has said the party offers the best platform for Peter Obi to contest and emerge victorious in the 2027 presidential election. Olorunfemi said this on Channels TV on Wednesday. He added that true Obidients won’t advise Obi to dump LP. “Well, I will just use the word delusional, those ones that are…
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