The Social and online media are awash with the story that the move by Senate to probe Tertiary Education Trust Fund is responsible for the halt in the Recall process of the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial Zone, Senator Dino Melaye. Investigations exclusively revealed that INEC did not stop the …
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Ondo: Jegede calls for calm over A/Court decision, heads to S/Court
Governorship Hopeful under the Platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 26 2016 Governorship election in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede SAN has called for calm among his supporters following the indefinite adjournment of the case by the Appeal Court justices sitting on the party’s governorship candidate tussle earlier scheduled for …
Read More »Teenager bags six-year imprisonment for phone theft
An Oredo Magistrates’ Court in Benin, Edo State, has sentenced an 19-year old man identified as Happy Okotie to six-year imprisonment for stealing. Okotie was jailed along with a 25-year-old man, one Kingsley Ebose, for six years each without an option of fine. They were convicted by the trial magistrate, …
Read More »Ex-NSA, Sambo Dasuki, floors Nigerian govt at ECOWAS court
Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, on Monday triumphed at the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) court in the first leg of his court action challenging his alleged unlawful arrest and detention since December last year by the Nigerian government. Against the objection of government, the court ruled …
Read More »Obama nominates moderate, veteran Judge for Supreme Court
President Barack Obama nominated veteran appellate court judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, setting up a potentially ferocious political showdown with Senate Republicans who have vowed to block any Obama nominee. Considered a moderate, Garland, 63, is currently chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals …
Read More »Budget 2016 full of errors, can’t be passed,says NASS
The two arms of the National Assembly, NASS, declared, yesterday, that the 2016 budget was full of errors, saying the document could no longer be passed on February 25 as earlier promised. This came on a day the Senate Committee on Gas Resources rejected the N200 million allocation demanded by …
Read More »Exclusive: How Senator Akpabio, Governor Emmanuel procured Controversial S’Court Judgement
An inside source within Akwa Ibom State Government has spoken to SaharaReporters about a shady deal Governor Udom Emmanuel and his predecessor, former Governor Godswill Akpabio, struck with justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria prior to the apex court’s judgment on Wednesday February 3, 2015 validating the state’s …
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