Mobile Courts To Try Perpetrators Of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

Severe measures will be taken against perpetrators of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria as a move to curtail the growing rate of violence against women and girls. Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye stated this at a news conference in Abuja to kick-start this year’s 16 days of Activism with a theme “Invest to prevent violence against women and girls.’’ She said plans are underway for the establishment of mobile courts backed by...

Court Rules In Favor Of Enugu Governor, Awards N5Million Damages Against NYSC

The Federal High Court Abuja has ruled in favor of the Enugu State Governor Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah confirming his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate as authentic. Delivering judgment on Monday, Justice Nyang Ekwo held the Director-General of the NYSC and the institution guilty of misrepresentation of material facts. Justice Ekwo further awarded N5 million in damages against the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, for alleging that the corps’ discharge certificate held by Governor...

Army kills wanted bandits’ gang leader Mai-Nasara in Kebbi

A team of Nigerian soldiers stationed in the Danko Wasagu local government area of Kebbi State has reportedly killed a suspected notorious bandits’ commander Mai-Nasara. Mai-Nasara was gunned down in Sengeko forest in Kebbi State on Tuesday during a fierce exchange of fire between his gang and men of the Nigerian Army. The team also arrested five other members of the same gang who tried to escape during the gun duel. The gang is behind...

Supreme Court set to deliver verdict on 2023 presidential election, Thursday

The Supreme Court has set aside Thursday, October 26, as the judgment day in the appeals by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP). The Court announced this in a statement signed by its Registrar, Zainab M Garba and dated October 25, 2023. The Supreme Court’s impending judgment followed the appeals filed against the September 6 judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), which affirmed...

Supreme Court to hear oppositions’ appeals against Tinubu’s election on Monday

The Supreme Court will on Monday [Oct. 23] hear the appeals against President Bola Tinubu’s election in February. The Court served hearing notices to Peoples Democratic Party’s [PDP], Atiku Abubakar; Labour Party’s [LP], Peter Obi and the Allied Peoples Movement’s [APM] candidate Chichi Ojei on Thursday. The notices were signed by the court’s registrar, Zainab Garba. The three rival candidates are challenging the result of the last presidential election that favoured Tinubu and the verdict...

Court of Appeal sacks Sen Abbo, representing Adamawa-North

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Monday sacked the Senator representing Adamawa-North Senatorial District, Elisha Ishaku Abbo, from the National Assembly. The appellate court has consequently declared Amos Yohanna, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the validly elected Senator for the zone. Reacting, Abbo, in his official Facebook page has appealed to his supporters and constituents to remain calm. Elisha Abbo’s ordeal started after the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly...

Anambra Community Launched War Against Drug Abuse

Nteje Community in Oyi Local Government Area has launched War Against Drug Abuse, WADA as they inaugurated a committee that will champion Zero tolerance to drug trafficking in the community. The President General of the community, Dr Nnamdi Iloduba said that the target is to rescue the community from the activities of drug peddlers. Dr Iloduba said that the society is losing good number of youths to drugs abuse as many have abandoned schooling and...

Atiku applies to use Tinubu’s CSU records as evidence in Supreme Court

Atiku Abubakar has applied to file fresh evidence in his ongoing legal tussle with President Bola Tinubu that has been escalated to the Supreme Court. Atiku, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last general election, has remained steadfast in challenging Tinubu’s election despite the verdict of the presidential election petition tribunal on September 6. He exported the matter to the United States, requesting that Tinubu’s alma mater the Chicago State University release...

Nigerian Army kills Boko Haram’s second-in-command Ari Gana

Troops of the Nigerian Army’s 144 battalion have killed Ari Gana, a top Boko Haram commander in Borno, a northeastern state in Nigeria. Gana, the second-in-command to the Boko Haram leader Ari Ngulde, was killed alongside five of his bodyguards. The terrorist commander and his men met their Waterloo on Monday (Sept. 25) after running into an ambush by the gallant troops in Takaskala, a community in the Gwoza local government area of Borno, according...

APC, Nnaji V.  Governor Peter Mbah: Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal

The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Uche Nnaji, against Governor Peter Mbah. Delivering the judgment on Friday, the 5-member panel of judges upheld that the APC and Nnaji legal team filed invalid brief of argument and failed to convince the court with cogent reason why the appellants’ incompetent brief should be allowed. Justice Tijani Abubakar held that since the appellants’ brief was found to be invalid,...

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