seven-man panel of Justices of the Court, announced the judgment date after taking arguments for and against the suit.   Amaechi, who is currently Minister of Transportation, is praying the apex court to prohibit Governor Nyesom Wike from investigating his eight-year tenure as the executive governor of the state. The former governor, represented by Prince Lateef Fagbemi SAN, predicated his ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced new dates for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.   The commission had earlier announced February 18, 2023 for the presidential election.   On Saturday, the commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, told journalists that new dates have been fixed for the elections.   Presidential and National Assembly elections have been slated for February ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law.   The President signed the Bill at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, on Friday. The Electoral Amendment Bill of 2022 is an amendment to the 2010 Electoral Act. The bill is supposed to help Nigeria improve its electoral process from the past ones. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law.   The President assented to the bill at past midday on Friday at a brief ceremony held at the Council Chamber of the Aso Villa in Abuja.   The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo; President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the long-awaited Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 tomorrow Our correspondent learnt that he will perform the act at noon. It will end speculations that the President may withhold assent again. The National Assembly transmitted the bill to him for the second time on January 31 after reviewing it. President has a 30-day window within which ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has grilled Abubakar Suleiman, the chief executive officer of Sterling Bank Plc and two other top officials of the lender over the controversial ‘hidden’ N20 billion said to allegedly belong to the Kogi State government. Recall it was reported that the federal anti-graft agency, in August 2021, said that it had credible intelligence ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPC) has released details of how it distributed a total of 387.59 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit to Nigerians in its response to handling the supply gap caused by the importation of methanol-blended petrol into the country by four oil marketers, The product was evacuated from the depot and distributed to Nigerians through ...

The Zamfara State House of Assembly has confirmed Senator Hassan Mohammed Nasiha Gusau as the deputy governor of the northwestern state.  His confirmation followed a screening by the lawmakers on Wednesday. The speaker of the House, Nasiru Mua’zu, had at the resumed plenary read a letter from Governor Bello Matawalle nominating Senator Muhammad as his deputy. Hassan was nominated hours ...

Sarah Ochekpe, a former Minister of Water Resources, has been sentenced to imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Jos over a N450 million money laundering scandal. Ochekpe, who served as Minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was sentenced alongside a former chairman of the People Democratic Party in Plateau state, Raymond Dabo, and the Plateau State Coordinator of ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has reversed its earlier decision postponing its national convention indefinitely. The convention will now hold on March 26, the date earlier slated for the conduct of its zonal congresses. The party had initially scheduled the convention for February 26, 2022, but issues such as zoning of offices and crisis in some states served as ...