The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos on Friday, affirmed Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah as the winner of the 2023 Anambra South Senatorial District Election. The court delivered judgement on the appeals filed by the Candidate of the All-Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Chris Azubogu, Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chris Uba and Candidate…
The Coalition of Igbo Unions of Nigeria has warned the Abia state governor, Alex Otti not to evacuate northerners from the cattle market in the state. They insisted that any effort made by the Governor to evacuate the northern businesses in the cattle market forcefully will have a terrible effect on igbo traders in the…
The first container freight train of the Lagos-Ibadan railway has taken off from the Apapa port in Nigeria’s commercial capital city. According to a statement on China Civil Engineering Construction Company’s website, on Thursday the container carried 40-foot containers to Ibadan. The statement read, “The Nigerian Railway Corporation plans to operate one pair of container…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against rigging the November 11 governorship election in Imo State. IPOB said it would not be silent and allow the Nigerian government to use INEC officials to carry out evil in the State. A statement by IPOB’s spokesman, Emma…
The BBN former winner, Phyna, has issued an official statement following the backlash she received over her abortion takes on social media. The past winner insinuated that every woman in Nigeria has done abortion at least once. When her views were vehemently opposed and Nigerians roasted her for making such a comment, she made further…
A young woman has been arrested for stealing a new born baby from a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. According to reports 19 year old Cuane Malaquias allegedly stuffed the one-day-old baby, Ravi Cunha into a duffle bag and smuggled him out of the hospital. She then ran back to her home in Favela…
The Anambra State Government will soon domesticate the Correctional Service bill, the State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof Sylvia Chika Ifemeje, has said. Ifemeje disclosed this when the Anambra State Controller of Correctional Services, Usifo Joseph paid her a courtesy visit in her office at Jerome Udoji Secretariat Complex, Awka. Recall that former President…
Organised labour has vowed to take action against the Imo State governor of Governor Hope Uzodimma, following the brutalisation of NLC President, Joe Ajaero, in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Wednesday. This was as Uzodimma, while reacting to the Wednesday crisis on Thursday, accused the NLC President, who is an indigene of Imo State,…
The Supreme Court has fixed January 26, 2024, for judgment in the appeal by a former member of the House of Representatives Farouk Lawan who is presently in jail. A five-member panel led by Justice John Okoro chose the date after lawyers to parties made their final submissions and adopted their written briefs. Lawan’s appeal…
Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says the problems the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is facing in conducting credible elections would be complicated by the appointment of members of political parties as Resident Electoral Officers. Falana was commenting on the newly-appointed INEC RECs confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday and Thursday, some of whom…
