[responsivevoice] A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja presided over by Justice Ahmed Mohammed will on Saturday deliver judgment in the certificate forgery case against Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki brought before it by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and one of its members, Williams Edobor. Mohammed, on Thursday announced the date for his verdict…
Edo 2020: Legal Cross-Fire as State High Court Nullifies Ize-Iyamu, Gani Audu’s candidacy
[responsivevoice] …Three weeks after Federal High Court cleared Audu of forgery. The legal battle for the governorship of Edo State following the outcome of the September 19, 2020 governorship election is getting messier. Incumbent governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Godwin Obaseki was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,…
Alleged Money Laundering: Court Discharges Atiku’s in-law Partly for Discrepancies in Prosecution’s Statements
[responsivevoice] Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos, judicial division, on Monday struck out the money laundering charge proffered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Abdullahi Babalele, the son-in-law to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, for being defective and disclosing no primafacie case. The judge suo motu raised the issue…
Battle for Edo APC: Obaseki’s Faction in Dilemma as Ojezua Hints of Governor’s Feud with PDP
[responsivevoice] Against all expectations that the dissolution of all executive committees of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC across the country would resolve the protracted crisis in the Edo State chapter of the party, the development has indeed aggravated the crisis with the two factions laying claim to being the authentic state executive that would…
Hope Dims for Hosting of Sports Festival as Edo Govt Dissolves Sub-Committees
[responsivevoice] Edo Government has dissolved all the Sub-Committees set up for the organisation of the 19th National Sports Festival (NSF), tagged Edo 2020. The dissolution of the committees now casts doubt over the likelihood of the sports fiesta still holding in spite of billions of Naira that had been committed into its organisation. The news…
Collapse of Server: UNIBEN Post-UTME Candidates in a Fix over Admission
[responsivevoice] About 3,500 candidates who sat for the University of Benin, UNIBEN Post-UTME on Tuesday December 8 may be in a quandary following the announcement by the authority of the institution that its server had collapsed and the affected candidates would have to return to retake the test. With this development, the chances of their…
I Have no Interest in Coming Back as Chairman – Oshiomhole
[responsivevoice] Former National Chairman of the All Progressives congress, APC and immediate past governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole says he remains resolute about his position of accepting the dissolution of the national working committee, NWC of the party led by him. According to Oshiomhole, “That chapter of my political life is closed”. Oshiomhole stated…
Shekarau Knocks Buhari over Service Chiefs
[responsivevoice] Former minister of education and two term governor of Kano State, currently the senator representing Kano Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Ibrahim Shekarau has faulted the presidency on the tenure of service chiefs, stating that by continuing to keep them, President Muhammadu Buhari is in breach of the law. Shekarau asserted that…
Marginalisation of Igbos Deliberate After-war Policy – Nwodo
Says without Igbo presidency in 2023, “Our continued participation in the politics of Nigeria is highly questionable” As agitation heightens for a president from the South-east geopolitical zone ahead of the 2023 general elections, a leader of the Igbo nation and President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, John Nnia Nwodo, has called for an urgent affirmative…
Recession: Peter Obi Predicts Long Haul for Nigeria, Warns Economy may Run Out of Control
Former vice presidential candidate in the 2019 general election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and one-time governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has predicted that the present recession that Nigeria has slipped into would be worse than what it was in 2016. Obi, a businessman and financial expert, also painted a…
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