Author: Olabanji Ayoola

The Senate will screen Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad for confirmation as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria on Wednesday. Justice Tanko Muhammad has been serving as acting CJN since January 25 this year when the then Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, was suspended from office on grounds of alleged corrupt practices. President Muhammadu […]

Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA), has chided the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for his remarks on the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. This comes as the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) urged the former Governor of Lagos State against to desist […]

The five-man Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja on Monday watched the four video clips presented by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate for the February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,  to prove some of the  allegations  in their petition challenging the outcome of the  polls. The  video clips  were  an interview which […]

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, played a video recording before the Election Petition Tribunal to establish the allegation that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) used a central server during the February 23 polls. The film featured the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, notifying the public that the […]

Lawyers and other notable Nigerians have warned that democracy will be endangered without strict compliance with the rule of law. Speaking at the at the 2019 Annual Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Owerri branch, they said that for democracy to thrive, institutions of government must abide by the rule of law. At […]

The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned the killing of the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Funke Olakunrin as an insult to the Yoruba people. In a statement by the South West spokesman, Mr Ayo Fadaka, it said:“The National Vice Chairman of PDP, Dr Eddy Olafeso and indeed the Zonal Working Committee of […]

Chief of Army Staff, Gen Tukur Buratai, has charged troops of Operation Harbin Kunama 3 to be ruthless, aggressive and decisive against bandits in the North-West. He gave the charge when he visited the troops stationed at 1 Division Super Camp in Kuyello, Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Monday. He urged […]