Hon Olajide Oguntodu, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the House of Assembly for Akure South Constituency 1, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently sign the new Electoral…
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The presidency has debunked speculations purporting that President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the reviewed Electoral Act Amendment Bill. Recall that as of Saturday evening, there were insinuations that the President…
Killers of Deborah Samuel committed barbaric, un-Islamic act β Aragbiji
The Aragbiji of Iragbiji, Oba Abdur-Rasheed Ayotunde Olabomi Odundun IV, has described the killing of Deborah Samuel as an unIslamic act. Oba Olabomi, who condemned the killing of Miss Samuel,…
BREAKING: Electoral Act: Supreme Court fixes May 19 for Buhariβs suit against National Assembly
The Supreme Court on Monday invited President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it on Thursday, May 19 for a hearing in a suit he instituted against the National Assembly challenging…
Deborah Samuel: Thereβll be reprisal, civil war if you fail to act now β HURIWA to Buhari, Tambuwal
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has condemned the conspiratory silence for over 24 hours of President Muhammadu Buhari over the brutal hacking to death of a 200 level…
Taraba Senator, Bwacha reacts to Appeal Court judgement on Electoral Act
Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, representing Taraba South Senatorial District, on Wednesday, reacted to the Court of Appeal judgment on the Electoral Act, saying it’s a good development for the nation’s democracy.…
FCTA reads riot act against extortion, fees hike in Abuja schools
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has issued a salient warning to schools in the territory to desist from working with the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) to extort money from…
BREAKING: Senate amends Electoral Act to allow President, lawmakers, govs vote at party primaries
The Senate, on Tuesday, amended the Electoral Act 2022, to allow βstatutory delegates’, all those elected to participate and vote in the conventions, congresses or meetings of political parties. This…
Electoral Act: Amended section doesnβt exist, appointees wonβt resign β Akpabio
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has declared that the Section 84, sub-section 12 of the Electoral Act as amended, does not exist. The section of the Electoral Act…
Buhari appoints five Senior Advocates to battle PDPβs suit on Electoral Act dispute
In a bid to have section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act 2022 deleted, President Muhammadu Buhari has enlisted the services of five Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to battle…
Electoral Act: I did not order Senate to remove Section 84 (12) β Buhari tells Federal High Court
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday told a Federal High Court in Abuja that he did not order the Senate to remove the contentious section 84 (12) from the amended Electoral…
2023: Take advantage of electoral Act, seek political offices β Imo lawmaker to women
The Imo State House of Assembly has said womanhood does not inhibit participation in politics, urging women in the state to seek more political offices in 2023. A member representing…
“If nothing is done, it is projected that by the summer of this year, 350,000 of the 1.4 million severely malnourished children in the country, will perish,” warns Adam Abdelmoula…
Electoral Act: Court stops AGF, others from frustrating appeal against judgment
The Court of Appeal has ordered the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and others to desist from taking steps capable of frustrating hearing in an appeal filed against judgment…
2023: Electoral Act has thrown thugs out of business β Rep Abejide
Member representing Yagba East/West/Mopamuro Federal Constituency of Kogi State, Hon Leke Abejide, has said the amended Electoral Act has thrown thugs out of business in 2023 elections. He said one…
Buhari signs Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers Act, 3 others
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to four bills recently passed by the National Assembly. They include the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Act, 2022 and the Nigeria Law…
Becker told the jury his career earnings of $50m (about Β£38 million) were spent on an expensive divorce from his first wife in 2001, child maintenance payments, and “expensive lifestyle…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised alarm over an alleged plot by the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to alter the newly passed Electoral Act 2022 to…
APC consensus candidates for party executives violates Electoral Act 2022 β Lawyer
A constitutional lawyer, Dr Kayode Ajulo, says the consensus arrangement by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for its national executive officers is a violation of the Electoral Act 2022. Ajulo…
The Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG, in charge of South-West zone, Johnson Kokumo, has urged police officers in Ondo State to jettison the idea of embarking on a strike…