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The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Uyo Thursday confirmed Udom Emmanuel of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the duly elected Governor Of Akwa Ibom State. The tribunal, therefore, dismissed case filed by Mr Nsima Ekere, All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom governorship candidate. Ekere had challenged the election of Emmanuel during the March 9 governorship election. The Petitioners approached the tribunal, after several amendments on two grounds, to wit; a) That the Election was invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2015 (sic); or b) That the 1st Respondent, Mr Udom Emmanuel was not…

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, to proceed on an indefinite leave. A statement issued on Wednesday by the Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Willie Bassey, said the leave is to allow the conclusion of the investigation being carried out by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Consequently, the President has also approved the appointment of Dr. Mrs. Folashade Yemi-Esan as the Acting Head of the Civil Service of the Federation with immediate effect. Meanwhile, there’s also been an approval…

So far, the Federal Government has evacuated 501 Nigerians following xenophobic attacks on them by South African locals. Last Wednesday, 187 Nigerians alighted from the Air Peace Boeing 777 aircraft that flew them into Lagos and were the Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa. This as the second batch of 314 Nigerian returnees fleeing from xenophobic attacks in South Africa arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday, September 18. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fleeing returnees were aided by the Federal Government with the assistance of a Nigerian carrier, Air Peace. The B777 aircraft, with…

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has urged the Federal Government to make history by signing or submitting instrument of ratification of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, TPNW, on September 26, 2019, in New York. A high-level ceremony for signatures and for the treaty will be held during leaders’ week on September 26, 2019, at the United Nations General Assembly.  All governments across the globe have been invited to participate at the ceremony by the co-sponsoring governments of Austria, Brazil, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa and Thailand. President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, in a letter to the…

A bill for an Act to establish a centre for cancer prevention and other related matters scaled second reading Thursday. The bill, sponsored by Ossai Nicholas Ossai (PDP-Delta), was passed at a plenary presided over by the speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila. The essence of the bill, according to Ossai, is to “provide a platform for information gathering on the mortality rate of cancer disease and a basis for compilation of statistical record of incidence of cancer in the country.” It is also expected to “provide a direction of cancer survival studies and research programme and information on the personal, clinical and…

Only two women of the four who applied for Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN this year, have been successful. Out of the 117 legal practitioners who applied for the SAN rank this year, only 38 including the women succeeded at the end of a rigorous screening exercise. Among the successful applicants, three are academics, while 35 are advocates. The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC, had on July 5, stated identities of the 38 lawyers that were conferred the SAN rank. Among the new silks are the Solicitor-General of the Federation, Mr.  Dayo Apata and Lagos based human rights activist, Mr. Ebun-olu Adegboruwa.…

By: Nestor B. Udoh South Africa has always made headlines that stand on their head. For centuries, the whole world raved and ranted at a stiff-necked white minority that held the country by its jugular, to dismantle its strange system of government called apartheid. It was a system that also stood logic on its head. The minority officially usurped everything and used a combination of coercion, subterfuge, chicanery, carrot-and-stick, murder, kidnapping and blackmail to sustain what has been widely regarded as the most oppressive system of government known to man, save for Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany. Needless to say,…

In what is seen as altruistic feat to Nigerians, the House of Representatives Wednesday suspended protocol to receive Mr. Allen Onyema, the chairman of Air Peace Airlines into the Hallowed Chambers of the house for an address. This was as the House had on Tuesday recommended Onyema to Federal Government for National Honours Award and made Air Peace an official airline for all its members. Air Peace Airlines successfully evacuated the first batch of willing Nigerians from Johannesburg, South Africa Wednesday last week following the xenophobic attacks on foreigners. A total of 312 Nigerians fleeing the vicious attacks in South Africa…

The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, is alarmed by the brazen attempt by former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, to rewrite history and portray himself as victim of persecution regarding the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s investigation of the OPL 245 Settlement Agreement. Magu in a statement issued by spokesman of the agency Tuesday, said: ”In the last few days the Nigerian media has been awash with previews of Adoke’s book, entitled: Burden of Service: Reminiscences of Nigeria’s former Attorney General, in which he took aim at…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Mohammad, Tuesday urged Judges in the country to redouble their effort and ensure that cases pending before their various courts were speedily disposed off. While declaring open the 2019/2020 Annual Judges Conference of the Federal High Court in Abuja, the CJN, who was represented by Justice Mohammed Shuaibu of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, said he was optimistic that most of the pending cases would get deserved attention now that judges have returned from their annual vacation. “Having rested for over two months; we are expecting much more from all of you.…