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The Election Petitions Tribunal hearing the All Progressives Congress’ Adegboyega Oyetola’s petition against the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Ademola Adeleke on Friday annulled the result of the July 16 Osun governorship poll. Justice Tetsea Kume, while delivering a majority decision, declared that the Independent National Electoral Commission did not comply substantially with the constitution and the provisions of the Electoral Act. He subsequently deducted the over-voting observed from the votes scored by the candidates and declared that Oyetola won the election, having polled 314, 921, while Adeleke’s score came down to 290, 266. He directed INEC to withdraw…

The United States has imposed visa restrictions on some Nigerians accused of undermining democracy, noting that this was part of the action to advance democracy and tackle corruption in Nigeria. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, said that the sanctioned individuals, whose names he did not reveal, would be ineligible for the US visa. The top-ranking diplomat also explained that some family members of those barred from the US may be subjected to the same restriction. He stated, ”We are committed to supporting and advancing democracy in Nigeria and around the…

Nigeria has begun an attempt to overturn the $11 billion debt awarded in favour of Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID). In 2019, a British court gave P&ID the go-ahead to seize Nigerian assets worth $9 billion over a 2010 contract. The company claimed it entered into an agreement with Nigeria to build a gas processing plant in Calabar, Cross River state; but that the deal collapsed because the Nigerian government did not fulfil its end of the bargain. The award, which has been accruing interest since 2013, is now worth $11 billion. At the proceedings in London’s high court on…

There was drama at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Monday, as two Senior Advocates of Nigeria, representing the Nigeria National Petroleum Company, (NNPC) in the N100 billion suit filed by Ifeanyi Ararume against the company walked out on the court. Kanyinsola Ajayi and Etigwa Uwa, counsels to the NNPC, walked out of the courtroom following their failure to get Justice Inyang Ekwo to hear only their application for a stay of proceedings in the suit. Mr Ajayi, after identifying his processes, prayed the court to allow him to argue his application for a stay of proceedings…

The Court of Appeal in Makurdi, Benue, has annulled the primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that produced Hyacinth Alia as the gubernatorial flag bearer of the party. The appeal was brought before the court by a gubernatorial aspirant, Terhemba Shija, who said that the APC’s refusal to hold a valid election in the LGAs was a calculated attempt to scheme him out of the contest. In a ruling delivered on Monday by Justice Biobelle Georgewill, the court agreed that the appellant was able to prove that no primary election was held in the said LGAs, and ordered…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday commissioned the Lekki Deep Sea Port, built to handle 2.5 million twenty-foot standard containers per year. The president arrived Lagos at about 3:40 p.m. and landed at the Lekki Deep Sea Port around 4:25 p.m. on Monday. The president was received by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat, and members of the State Executive Council. Those who were also there to receive the president were Governors Biodun Oyebanji (Ekiti) and Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and former Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, Service chiefs, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), among…

The National Judicial Council, at its 100th Meeting of 18 and 19 January 2023 considered the list of candidates presented by its Interview Committee and at the end of deliberation, recommended the under listed names of successful candidates as Heads of Courts and other Judicial Officers for the Federal and State Courts in Nigeria. They are as follows: 1. CHIEF JUDGE, KADUNA STATE i) Hon. Justice Muhammad Tukur Mu’azu Aliyu 2. CHIEF JUDGE, KOGI STATE i) Hon. Justice Majebi Josiah Joe 3. CHIEF JUDGE, ONDO STATE i) Hon. Justice Odusola Aiyedun Olusegun 4. CHIEF JUDGE, GOMBE STATE i) Hon. Justice…

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday fixed April 5 for judgment in a 27-count fraud charges brought against a former Head of Service of the Federation, (Ex-HoS) Mr. Stephen Oronsaye by the Federal Government. The Judge fixed the date after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’, Oronsaye and others adopted their final addresses for and against the case. Oronsaye was arraigned alongside the Managing Director of Fedrick Hamilton Global Services Limited, Mr. Osarenkhoe Afe on 49 count charges but the charges we’re later reduced to 22. Equally charged before the court by…

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday affirmed Umo Eno as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State for the 2023 election. The appellate court upheld the judgment of a Federal High Court in Uyo, which had earlier dismissed the suit for lack of merit, Channels television reported. Akan Okon, who was one of the governorship aspirants on the 25 May 2022 primary of the party in the state had asked a Federal High Court in Uyo to disqualify Mr Eno over an alleged certificate forgery. Mr Akan had alleged that the PDP…

The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, says the appointment of Usman Baba as the Inspector-General of Police (I-G) is for a single tenure of four years. A statement by the Press Secretary to the minister, Ošaigbovo Ehisienmen, on Thursday in Abuja said the clarification followed reports in some sections of the media over tenure extension for the IGP. Mr Dingyadi said the IGP was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari on 6 April 2021 and confirmed by the Nigeria Police Council headed by the president in June 2021 for a single tenure of four years. “The appointment and confirmation were…