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Nigeria’s main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is facing renewed internal tension as Nyesom Wike has declared that the party’s planned national convention will proceed as scheduled, dismissing a last-minute legal challenge by a rival faction. Wike, who currently serves as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), said the appeal filed by a…
Today Monday, 16th December the Apex Court in Nigeria will deliver a verdict in a new lawsuit that aims to have President Bola Tinubu removed from office as Nigeria’s President. The lawsuit, marked SC/CV/667/2023, prays the supreme court to remove Tinubu from office on two main grounds: he is allegedly unable to serve as Nigeria’s…
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The Supreme Court on Friday, affirmed the victory of Usman Ododo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 11, 2023 governorship election held in Kogi. A five-member panel of the apex court, in a judgment, held that the appeal by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its candidate, Muritala Ajaka, marked: SC/CV/654/2024 was…
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The Supreme Court of Nigeria will tomorrow Friday, August 23, deliver final judgments in the disputes that arose in the conduct of governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States in 2023. The apex court had on Monday took arguments from lawyers representing various candidates in the disputes and reserved judgments. However, the Justice Garba Lawal-led…
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The Supreme Court has rejected an application by Yakubu Muritala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in the last governorship election in Kogi State, asking the court to await the outcome of his request for a full panel to hear an issue raised in his appeal. Ajaka and his party have filed an appeal…
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Former Special Adviser to ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, Doyin Okupe, has said the Supreme Court ruling on local government autonomy on Thursday was wrong.Doyin Okupe said the local governments are not federating units of Nigeria. He said the ruling was an aberration and would create political confusion. Okupe on Thursday said local governments belonged to the…
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The Supreme Court has, today, delivered judgement in the case brought to it against the 36 state Governors by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government . Very many report has gone out from several media platforms. Find below, three cardinal, actionable details of the verdict. The court held that it is illegal for Governors…
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Lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara have declared intention to appeal the recent Court of Appeal judgment regarding the jurisdiction of the Rivers State High Court in suit number PHC/1512/CS/2024, describing the ruling as a miscarriage of justice. Speaker of the pro-Fubara lawmakers, Victor Oko-Jumbo announced this during…
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The Supreme Court, on Thursday, ordered the Governors of the 36 States of the Federation, to within seven days, enter their defence to the suit the Federal Government filed to secure full autonomy for the 774 Local Government Areas, LGAs. The order followed an application that FG, through the Attorney General of the Federation and…
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The Federal Government has filed a lawsuit against the Governors of the 36 States of the Federation at the Supreme Court over alleged misconduct in the administration of Local Government Areas, LGAs. In the suit marked: SC/CV/343/2024, which was filed by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, the…
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