The Kano State Government on Wednesday declared a 24-hour curfew statewide. The measure is to forestall any breakdown of law and order following the nullification of election of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf by the election petitions tribunal on Wednesday. The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Hussaini Gumel made the declaration in a statement he personally signed the statement on Wednesday evening, said a combined team of security operatives has been dispatched across the city...

Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert of the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois has ordered the Chicago State University (CSU) to release all relevant records pertaining to Nigerian president Bola Tinubu to Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last presidential election. The federal court in Chicago, on Tuesday, mandated CSU to provide “all relevant and non-privileged documents” to the former Vice-president in acknowledgment of Tinubu’s lawyers’ argument against breaching their...

Former Vice President Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election, has sought the nullification of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) victory of Bola Tinubu, and lodged an appeal at the Supreme Court. In a Notice of Appeal predicated on 35 grounds, Atiku told the apex court that the tribunal in the judgment delivered by Justice Haruna Tsammani erred on the side of law and miscarriage...