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The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has suspended a medical practitioner, Dr. Michael, for six months for malpractice and infamous conduct by enticing his patient, a housewife, Ifeoma Orji. The five-member Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal announced the sanction on Wednesday in Jos after the doctor’s trial. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Owoicho-Odeh pleaded not guilty. …

From the scheming and permutations currently going on in the two major political parties ahead of the 2023 elections, there seems to be a calculated and deliberate conspiracy, particularly from some powerful politicians from the North, to deny the South-East the parties’ presidential ticket. Abubakar Atiku and Governor Aminu Tambuwal, both of whom contested in 2019 when the ticket was …

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, says the regulations and guidelines for the 2023 general election will be ready ten months before the election. The elections commence in February 2022, an indication that INEC plans to release the guidelines before the end of April. This is contained in the INEC Daily Bulletin issued on Tuesday. Mr Yakubu …

The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal says the Peoples Democratic Party should give its presidential ticket to a candidate that can win the election, not minding what part of the country the candidate comes from. “I’m appealing to my party that we should be talking about how to win the election. Not just not zoning of where the President is …

• Fears exclusion could lead to litigations• Yari warns President Buhari against imposition• Party to rake in N1 billion from sale of forms As All Progressives Congress (APC) National Convention Screening Committee began its work on Tuesday evening, there are strong indications that all the national chairmanship aspirants will be cleared to face the delegates despite talks of consensus option. …

The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Mr. Anthony Ojukwu, SAN, has revealed how suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, was shielded from facing numerous cases that were filed against him since 2008. Ojukwu, who spoke at a capacity building retreat of the House of Representatives Committee on Human Rights, organised by the Policy and …

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has said he met “about N300 to N400 million” in the state treasury but inherited about N109 billion debt when he assumed office. Mr Soludo disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared on The Morning Show on Arise News Television. The governor said the state’s finances were not robust, but that his administration would not …

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, deferred hearing on the application seeking to extradite the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari to the United States of America, USA, to face trial over his alleged involvement with a notorious internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, till April 27. Abba Kyari and Hushpuppi Kyari is …

The House of Representatives is considering reporting Justice Evelyn Anyadike of a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, to the National Judicial Council for nullifying the provisions of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022. Justice Anyadike’s nullification thereby empowers the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), to delete the section from the …

*I won’t allow the parliament to be ridiculed, Gbajabiamila vows The House of Representatives at the plenary, Wednesday condemned the recent judgment by a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, which ordered deletion of Section 84(12) of the newly amended Electoral Act 2022.Justice Evelyn Anyadike, had in the judgment, held that the Section of the Act was unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, …