The Election Tribunal sitting in Enugu on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by the Action Democratic Party (ADP) seeking to stop the swearing in of Dr. Barr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, as the Enugu State Governor on Monday 29th May 2023. The Tribunal in its ruling citing section 285 subsection 2 of the 1999 constitution said it lacks jurisdiction to delve into issues outside its constitutional mandate and on that note dismissed the petition. Speaking to...

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has desribed President Muhammadu Buhari as a hero to the people of the South East following the commissioning of the Second Niger Bridge. He stated this in Onitsha, the commercial nerve of Anambra State, during the official commissioning and handover of the bridge renamed after President Muhammadu Buhari, and the federal secretariat complex built in Awka named after the first female engineer and Head of Civil Service, Mrs Ebele...

The Anambra State Federal Secretariat built and completed by the Federal Government in Awka has been commissioned today, by the Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige. The Secretariat named after Engr. Ebere Ofunneamaka Okeke, who was Nigeria’s first civil engineer and the first female Head of Service of the Federation, is now open for use by federal government Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Anambra State. During the commissioning of the secretariat, the Nnewi born Engr....

South East/Igbo APC Progressives Roundtable, SIAPRO, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the construction of the Second Niger Bridge, which was commissioned on Tuesday. SIAPRO, in a statement jointly signed by its Director General, Dr Uche Diala; National Secretary, Mr Emmanuel Molokwu; and the National Publicity Secretary, Mr Charles Kaye Okoye, described the Bridge as the “biggest and most significant singular infrastructural project in the Eastern region since after the civil war.” The group recalled...

Uncertainty over Bola Tinubu’s inauguration on Monday, May 29 looms as the Supreme Court has fixed Friday, May 26 to deliver its judgment in a suit seeking the nullification of the President-elect and the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima’s candidature in the 2023 presidential election. The suit was filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on July 28, 2022. The party challenged the validity of the Tinubu/Shettima ticket for the February 25, 2023, presidential election because...

United States President Joe Biden has released a list of officials to represent him at the upcoming inauguration of Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, on Monday, May 29. This is according to a press release by the White House on Monday. The nine-member presidential delegation are as follows: Honorable Marcia L. Fudge, secretary of the United States department of housing and urban development; Mr. David Greene, Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., U.S. Embassy, Abuja; The Honorable Sydney Kamlager-Dove,...