In order to address the crisis bedeviling Edo Assembly,  the Senate has ordered the Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki to issue a fresh proclamation for its inauguration. Obaseki on Tuesday said that he would not issue a fresh proclamation letter for the inauguration of the 7th Edo State House of Assembly. He stated that the Nigerian Constitution 1999 as ...

The Supreme Court has adjourned hearing until Aug. 20, a suit filed by the PDP and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, against the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s rejection of their request to access the INEC “central server”. PDP and Abubakar, alleged that the ”server”, housed the results of the poll electronically transmitted by the Independent National Electoral Commission during the ...

The Supreme Court has struck out an appeal filed by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State, Samuel Nnaemeke Anyanwu challenging the emergence of Imo Governor, Emeka Ihedioha as the party’s candidate for the last governorship election. A five-man panel of the court, in a unanimous judgment on Tuesday morning, upheld the earlier concurrent judgments of ...

Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has opened his defence at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, calling 13 witnesses. Ikpeazu is the second respondent in the petition filed by Dr Alex Otti, the Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), challenging his(Ikpeazu) declaration as the winner of the March 9 poll. Witnesses, including Messrs Hagler Okorie, ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Senate to ensure that only persons with clean records were cleared as ministers. The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, also urged the Senate to give credibility to its ministerial nominees’ screening. It said the Senate would be doing this by sending the names of the ...

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has lambasted those criticising the 43 ministerial list submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Senate for screening. Oshiohmole made his position known when he addressed State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Buhari at the State House, Abuja. The APC party leader, who was reacting ...

The Lagos State House of Assembly has set up a 16-man committee to screen cabinet nominees submitted by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The House had on July 22, read the list of 25 nominees for appointments as commissioners and Special Advisers sent by the governor to the House. The Speaker of the House, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, who read the list of ...

The Supreme Court has struck out a suit filed by Alhaji Mustapha Shehuri challenging the nomination of Gov. Babagana Zulum by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governorship candidate for the 2019 general elections. Justice Mary Odili, in a lead judgment, held that the case was statute barred and therefore dismissed the motion on notice brought by Shehuri. “This ...

President Muhammadu Buhari, has met with the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, behind closed doors. Oshiomhole arrived the forecourt of the State House at 3.25pm, The Nation reports The meeting began in the President’s office around 3.30pm. Discussions at the meeting may not be unconnected with party issues and efforts to move the ruling party forward. ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that inviting witnesses to defend its conduct of the Feb.23 general election would amount to becoming a partial umpire. Mr Yunus Usman, SAN, said this in his oral application urging the five-man panel headed by Justice Mohammed Garba to close commission’s defence. “My Lords, will not ...