A Federal High Court in Warri, Delta State, has restrained the Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Lauretta Onochie, from exercising executive powers in the day-to-day running of the Commission.The court, in a judgment delivered on May 9, consequently barred Onochie from further exercising any
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The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC were locked in an argument at the presidential Election petition court, PEPC over the alleged refusal of the latter to release the necessary documents to the former.The respondents in the petition marked CA/PEPC/PC/03/2023 are
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President-elect Bola Tinubu reportedly extended ministerial position options to former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, during their meeting on Tuesday in France.The purpose of the meeting, held in Paris, was to strengthen ties and seek support from Kwankwaso and former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.Sources familiar with the
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In a courtroom drama at the Presidential Election Petitions Court in Abuja on Wednesday, the names put forward as representatives of the Labour Party were dismissed by the court.During Wednesday’s proceedings, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, stood up to announce his appearance as the first petitioner.
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by Uchechukwu Okoroafor, AbujaWhat could have become an untidy affair was sanitized by the President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) when the party leadership decided to zone the key leadership positions ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly.The
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The Senate has asked the Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA) to transmit a bill seeking to provide for independent candidacy in presidential, governorship, national and state assemblies and local government councils’ elections to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent in line with the provisions of the Authentication Act.The proposed legislation
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Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the February 25 presidential election, met for four hours in Paris, France, on Monday, according to a report by TheCable, an online newspaper.The report said the discussion between the two centred on
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Following the failure of the government to meet its demands, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has declared a five-day warning strike from 8am on Wednesday, May 17 to 8am Monday, May 22.The decision was reached at the NARD's extraordinary National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held virtually on Monday.The
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Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and former Minister of Finance, has noted that “a lot of trust” was broken following the 2023 general elections, maintaining that no government can achieve growth and progress without first of all building trust.”Okonjo-Iweala who spoke on Monday at an
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President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, the chairman Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and governors of Lagos, Rivers and Plateau, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Nyesom Wike and Simon Lalong are billed to unveil a book on Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai on Saturday.The book titled:
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