The Presidential Election Petition Court on Thursday admitted in evidence data analysis of the February 25 presidential election results and their accompanying appendices. The court also admitted in evidence blurred results from 18,088 polling units from the results viewing portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The evidence was tendered by the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in the February 25 presidential election. The LP and Obi are challenging the outcome of the election wherein Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress was declared as the elected president by INEC. During the resumed hearing on Thursday, counsel…
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Following the suspension of Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa by President Bola Tinubu, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has announced Mr. Abdulkarim Chukkol as the Acting Chairman of the commission. Chukkol is an alumnus of the Federal Bureau of Investigations National Academy, Quantico, the European Center of Security Studies, Germany, and also a Fellow of the War College, Nigeria. The acting EFCC Chairman holds a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Maiduguri (2000) and Post Graduate Certificate in Criminal Justice Education from the University of Virginia, United States, as well as Graduate Diploma in Cybersecurity and Spectrum Management…
Date: 2023-Jun-15 🎯TOPIC: TAMING THE TONGUE 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BElOW👇 https://youtu.be/XiyX5my9Pss ✝️ TEXT:James 3:1-18(NKJV) 3:1. My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 3:2. For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he [is] a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. 3:3. Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. 3:4. Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are…
The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has resigned his membership of the 10th House following his resumption of work as the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu. Gbajabiamila tendered his resignation letter on Wednesday on the floor of the House before Abass and the members of the House. After laying his letter of resignation before the House, the new Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, read it out to the members The former Speaker subsequently took a bow before the new Speaker and the members before walking out of the chamber amidst cheers and standing ovation from…
Alban Bagbin, Speaker of the Ghanaian Parliament, has stressed that he will never support the legalisation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) activities in the country. Speaking with journalists in Tamale, Ghana, Bagbin vowed to fight against the rights of homosexuals, adding that their rights will not be legalised in his time. He blamed the decline of the indigenous population in most European countries on the LGBTQ+ community, adding that queer activities must stop immediately to contain this decline. “For you all to participate in it, count me out of Ghana because I will prefer to join my…
The Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, on Tuesday, confirmed the rescue of a 17-year-old girl from her stepfather, Sunday Ezeh, who allegedly tied her hands and feet, and locked her up for a month. The state Commissioner for the Ministry, Ify Obinabo, while confirming the incident to journalists on Tuesday, described the girl, who hailed from the Nise community, in the Awka South Local Government Area of the state, as a stepdaughter of the suspect. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Obinabo said she took the girl to Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Awka,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday reacted to the statement by the legal team of the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi suggesting that the commission has refused to respond to the subpoenas served on them. The LP and Obi in a petition marked CA/PEC/03/2023 are challenging the outcome of the presidential election wherein Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress was declared the elected president by INEC. During the proceedings, the petitioners had previously stated that the electoral commission had denied them access to some sensitive documents which are germane to their pleadings. While moving the motion…
Some fans have queried Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa’s invitation for Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Sierra Leone, asking for his retirement from the national team, Musa was one of the 23 players invited by Jose Peseiro for the match-day five of the AFCON qualifier scheduled for the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Stadium in Liberia June 18. Since the commencement of the 2023 AFCON qualifiers, the captain has managed a combined 36 minutes in four games. In the hard-fought 2-1 win over the Leone Stars at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja last September, the 30-year-old was an…
The Lagos State University, Ojo, has said it will give a sum of N500, 000.00 to its best-graduating student, Imoitesemeh Yusuf, of the Department of Law. Yusuf graduated with a CGPA of 5.00(First Class Honours). The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, made this known on Wednesday during the convocation press conference. She announced that the convocation would also witness the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the institution, which was founded in 1983. Olatunji-Bello added that the 2020/2021 academic session’s best graduating student was Divine Lopez of the department of Physiology, Lagos State University College of Medicine with a CGPA of…
Suspected gunmen have kidnapped a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State, Chief Eyo Edet. Edet, popularly called Eyo Aswang, was reportedly kidnapped on Monday, in his Filling Station, Eyotech Nigeria Limited, in the Oron Local Government area of the state. A source told our Correspondent in Uyo on Tuesday that Edet who served as the Deputy Coordinator of PDP’s Divine Campaign Organisation in Oron at the last election was accosted by his abductors and whisked away in a Sienna car. The source further revealed that his abductors drove their victims to a waiting speed boat and…