Confusion has been rising in the House of Representatives as two leaders of the House disagreed over public hearings on the Water Resource Bill. The House Deputy Majority Leader, Peter Akpatason, in an interview with ThePunch, said a public hearing would be held on the controversial bill, which was abandoned by the eighth National Assembly. On the contrary, the Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business, Abubakar Fulata, who reintroduce the bill on...

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the election of Governor Yahaya Bello as Kogi State governor. A seven-man panel of the court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, made the declaration in two judgments, where it dismissed separate appeals filed by the people’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP). The Nigeria apex court affirmed the earlier judgments of the Court of Appeal in Abuja on July 4, 2020,...