archiveMarch 2019

A civil Rights group, Our Mumu Don Do Movement has sacked Co-convener, Charlyboy over allegations of receiving money from President Muhammadu Buhari’s Campaign Director, Festus Keyamo to attack Atiku Abubakar. It was reported  via video on Friday that Charlyboy had confessed to have collected money from Keyamo to promote his...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Presidential Implementation Committee on Autonomy of the State Legislature and State Judiciary. During the inauguration held at the State House, Abuja on Friday, President Buhari said his administration was committed to strengthening democracy by ensuring separation of powers among the three arms of...

  Reactions have continued to trail the Friday verdict of the Election Petition Tribunal that declared Senator Ademola Adeleke the authentic winner of the 2018 governorship election of Osun State.   APC rejects tribunal’s verdict The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has rejected the verdict of the Election...

The Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal has declared Ademola Adeleke of the PDP as the winner of the controversial state election. The tribunal also declared the September 27 rerun election in the state illegal. The three-man panel of the Tribunal gave the judgement on Friday following the petition filed by...

  …as non-arrival of slips worries parents   The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says candidates who have yet to receive notification for its Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) might not have indicated interest at the point of registration. The Head, Media and Information of the board, Dr...

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday insisted that it would not issue the governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Congress (APC) a return certificate as an elected senator unless a court of competent jurisdiction gives the order. “The position of the commission has not changed....

The Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has held the petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Isiaka Adeleke and the PDP, challenging the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Governor Gboyega Oyetola at the September 2018 governorship election, lacked merit....

  Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) on Friday called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the supplementary elections on Saturday that it must ensure that the mistakes inherent in the earlier conducted governorship elections in the affected states are not repeated. Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, TMG, Chairperson, in a...

The Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja on Friday dismissed the separate objections filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Gboyega Oyetola, as well as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against the petition challenging their victory at the September 2018 election. The Peoples Democratic...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the disunity in Nigeria poses danger for the future. “When we look at this country today, even during the civil war, we were not as divided as we are today,” Obasanjo said at the annual retreat of Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks...