The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, seeking access to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s sever. The Dattijo Muhammad-led five-man panel, in a unanimous judgment, dismissed the appeal, saying there was no basis to interfere with the earlier decision of the Presidential […]

The immediate past governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday said that he is not worried about the search on his residence by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the morning. “The former governor wishes to assure his supporters and the generality of Lagosians to continue to remain calm […]

Nigeria’s former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says there is no cause for alarm over the Supreme Court’s ruling dismissing his claims to inspect the INEC server. Atiku, who addressed a news conference through his lead counsel, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, […]

Some lawyers said on Tuesday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) tried to implicate former Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, with some foreign currency. Officials of the anti-graft agency had on Tuesday raided the Epe and Victoria Island homes of the former governor in continuation of investigation of an alleged fraud said […]

The Nigerian Bar Association in Rivers State has threatened to withdraw its members from the courts over the increasing rate of assassinations and abduction of some of its members in the state. It noted that the frequency of the incidents was taking a toll on the legal profession, hence should be curtailed immediately. The Association […]

Former Lagos Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has urged his supporters to remain calm and law-abiding as there was no cause for alarm. Ambode, in a statement by his media aide, Mr. Habib Aruna, spoke on the backdrop of a search by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on his Epe Country home and Parkview Ikoyi […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday said its operatives did not raid the residence of the former governor of Lagos State Akinwunmi Ambode in Epe. The Commission said, “whatever” it was doing was within its constitutional right and part of the investigations of former governors. The denial contradicts what the EFCC spokesman said […]

• ‘Investigation diversionary’ In recent times, there have been an upswing in the calls by various interests groups and organisations urging the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to revisit and probe the $16 billion power project initiated under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, whose administration left office 12 years ago. But the development has got many Nigerians […]

Rev. Fr Paul Ofu, of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu killed by unidentified Gunmen, has been buried. Until his death, Ofu 49, who hailed from Okpatu in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu, was the Parish Priest of St. James Greater Parish Ugbawka. In his homily at the burial mass held at the Holy Ghost […]