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The Supreme Court, Tuesday, nullified the election of Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the governor of Imo State. The apex court declared Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the winner of the March 9 governorship election in the state. Mr Uzodinma originally came fourth in the election. The seven-member panel of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Tanko Muhammad gave the unanimous decision on Tuesday in Abuja. Earlier, the Supreme Court had on Tuesday,  dismissed the appeal of Uche Nwosu, the candidate of the Action Alliance in the election. Mr Nwosu, who…

Anxiety is said to have gripped six governors in the country as the Supreme Court, Monday, adjourned 13 appeals that arose from governorship elections held in the states on March 9, 2019. The apex court, which had in its cause-list for Monday, okayed hearing in appeals seeking to nullify the outcome of governorship elections in Kano, Imo, Sokoto, Plateau, Bauchi and Benue State, suddenly suspended its proceedings after one of the Justices developed an undisclosed sickness. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, who led a seven-man panel of Justices, announced a stand-down of all the appeals, midway…

The hope of improving electricity supply in the country has received a boost as the Federal Government, Monday, approved the constitution of two committees for the multi-billion naira Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Project in Taraba State. The committees, which include the Inter-ministerial Steering Committee, IMSC, and Project Delivery Committee, PDC, are expected to be inaugurated soon. A statement by Aaron Artimas, Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the Minister of Power, said, members of the Inter-ministerial Steering Committee are representatives of federal agencies and Taraba State government. It noted the Minister of Power, Mr. Sale Mamman, will chair the Inter-ministerial Steering…

As the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, completed shortlisting of successful applicants, a total of 664,934 have lost out in its job recruitment exercise. Already, NCS has short-listed162,399 applicants or 19.7 per cent out of 828,333 who applied for various positions in the organisation, last year. The Comptroller-General, Col. Hamid Ali (retd) said he would ensure a transparent recruitment exercise. The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Joseph Attah, in a statement, Monday, indicated that short-listed candidates were being notified via their e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. According to him, the candidates would write an aptitude test on the date and…

By Akanimo Sampson The low-sulfur regime of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) which kicked in on January 1, is said to be just the first chapter of what is projected by analysts to be a decade-long saga over how best to limit the shipping industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. The IMO 2020 commitment to a 0.5% sulfur limit for marine fuels is coming some 11 years after, and three years after it confirmed the 2020 start date. According to a Platts report, the majority of the shipping industry has plumped for taking whatever 0.5% sulfur fuel blends the world’s bunker producers…

By Akanimo Sampson The All Progressives Congress (APC) administration in Nigeria under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, is currently shifting the country’s upstream operation towards NGLs and natural gas, in a bid to comply with its crude production quota under the OPEC+ agreement. Under the OPEC+ deal, the size of the group’s daily production cuts target will be increased from 1.2 million barrels to 1.7 million barrels, compared to a baseline of October 2018, according to ministers including Russia’s Alexander Novak and Iran’s Bijan Namdar Zanganeh. That does not require the group as a whole to pump less oil,…

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, are currently in talks on how to aggregate and calculate the maritime and shipping sectors’ contribution to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP. Stating this in Lagos weekend, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, NIMASA’s Director-General, said that the contribution of the sector is presently scattered across different segments of the transport, trade and other sectors’ contribution to the GDP. He said the ongoing discussion aims to capture the comprehensive segments of the maritime industry including Customs’ collections at the ports into a single contribution to the GDP…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, are becoming a threat to the unity of the nation through their “exclusionist policies, divisive comments, disregard for rules, political witch-hunt and failure to bring perpetrators of violence to book.” The party lamented that all efforts by well-meaning Nigerians and groups to ensure unity and harmonious co-existence “are being destroyed by the APC and the Buhari administration through their brazing acts of nepotism, total disdain for merit and complete disregard for the federal character principle in appointments, projects and programmes, to the vexation of the…

Dangote Group is said to be targeting a turnover of $30 billion for its businesses in the next two years. Speaking with the media, weekend, Aliko Dangote, President of the Group, noted that though the company’s annual turnover was about $4 billion before now, but with the completion and running of the refinery, fertilizer, petrochemicals and other businesses, the company’s turnover would be in the region of $30 billion in the next two years. Dangote lauded the Federal Government’s efforts in the agricultural sector, saying “We have massive arable land; we have water; we have the right climate, so the…

Some Nigerians have risen against President Muhammadu Buhari allowing members of his family the use aircraft in the presidential fleet. Activist and lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN and President of Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, Dr. Osagie Obayuwana, Sunday, said the use of aircraft in the presidential fleet by members of the first family for private events is not backed by law. It will be recalled that Hanan Buhari, the president’s daughter and the first-class graduate in Photography said to have been invited to the Durbar by Rilwanu Adamu, Emir of Bauchi flew in a presidential jet…