The Court of Appeal in Abuja has nullified the March 18 governorship election that brought Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State to power. The governorship poll was a hard-fought contest between Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Bello Mattawale of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Lawal won the election with a total of 377,726 votes while the APC candidate polled 311,976 votes, according to official results. Matawalle, now serving as the Minister...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared the March 18, governorship election in Zamfara State which returned Dauda Lawal as the elected governor, inconclusive. In a judgment on Thursday, a 3- man panel of Justices of the appellate court unanimously voided and set aside the declaration of Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP as the lawfully elected governor. In a lead judgment read by Justice Sybil Nwaka Gbagi, the panel ordered that...

…Now face six procurement charges out of Initial 20 charges The immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele is to face six procurement charges out of the earlier 20 charges filed against him by the Nigerian government. The Federal Government in the original charge filed in August charged Emefiele alongside a female CBN employee, Sa’adatu Yaro, and her company, April 1616 Investment over procurement fraud to the tune of N6.5 billion....

Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo has lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that party doesn’t exist in Anambra State. Soludo who spoke through his Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Aburime, was responding to the claims by the APC that the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) will die a natural death in 2025. Aburime, made the remarks in Awka on Wednesday, pointing out that the APC state chairman Mr. Basil Ejidike, spoke from the figment...