•Aggrieved governorship aspirant, Achimugu seeks to replace Ododo Alex Enumah in Abuja The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to disqualify, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Usman Ododo, from contesting the forthcoming governorship election in Kogi State. The request by an aggrieved governorship aspirant under the platform of the APC was … Read more
Following the successful swearing into office of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima on Monday 29 May, attention has shifted to the 13 June inauguration of the 10th Senate and the House of Representatives. With particular reference to the Red Chambers, the race for Senate Presidency is going down the wire with … Read more
The immediate past Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, has explained why he rejected the anointed candidate of former Governor James Ibori as his successor. Okowa and Ibori have been at loggerheads since the Delta Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in 2022. While Ibori supported David Edevbie, a commissioner of finance in … Read more
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and JD(U) President Rajiv Ranjan Singh, in New Delhi on April 12, 2023. (PTI) From Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal to Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, regional leaders feel the Congress must stick to seats it can definitely win and not muddy … Read more
By Peter Rudegeair and Angel Au-Yeung May 27, 2023 7:00 am ET Vivek Ramaswamy was explaining to conservative commentator Glenn Beck why he was running for president when he veered off into a tangent about the flaws in a 65-year-old economic theory. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Continue reading … Read more
Action Alliance has said that retired Major-general Lincoln Jack Ogunewe is not its candidate for the upcoming governorship elections in Imo state. Ogunewe made headlines last week after he was announced as the candidate of the party, a report that the leadership of the party has debunked. In a press statement issued on Saturday, May … Read more
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has fined former presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, the sum of N40 million for filing a frivolous suit to stop inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on May 29. The post Court fines ex-presidential candidate N40m for seeking to stop Tinubu’s inauguration appeared first on The Guardian … Read more
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the former presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, Chief Ambrose Owuru to pay a fine of N40 million for filing a frivolous suit. The ex-presidential candidate had in a suit marked CA/CV/259/2023 asked the court to stop President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar … Read more
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday awarded a heavy fine against a former presidential candidate in the previous 2019 election cycle who filed a suit to stop the inauguration of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, on 29 May. The court awarded a whopping N40 million as fine against Ambrose Owuru, a lawyer, for pursuing … Read more
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has slapped a fine of N40milion on the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Ambrose Owuru, for filing a suit against the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s inauguration. The Abuja-based lawyer, Owuru, had filed a law suit with which he had sought to prevent the May 29 … Read more
A civil society organisation, Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM), has urged the Nigerian government to issue an international warrant of arrest on Ladi Adebutu. Mr Adebutu was the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State in the 2023 election. A police report indicted him for allegedly deploying two … Read more