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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sacked Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State and his Deputy, Dr Eric Kelechi Igwe, following their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the total number of 393, 042 votes …

Nigeria’s minister of education, Adamu Adamu, on Monday, gave a three-month deadline to the newly inaugurated committee saddled with the responsibility of renegotiating the 2009 agreement between the government and the university workers’ unions including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the National Association …

•Meets caretaker members, prunes down convention sub-committees  •Main focus is to put  party back on track for the convention •Govs abandon ex-CECPC leader, declare support for Niger colleague  •Buni, due to arrive back country tomorrow In a move meant to establish and consolidate his leadership, the Niger State Governor and acting National Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) …

The Benin Republic has granted the embattled Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a. Sunday Igboho), a conditional release. According to a statement yesterday, signed by the Communication Secretary to the umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, Maxwell Adeleye, Igboho was released by the Benin Republic government to the leader of the group, Prof. Banji Akintoye; a French …

By Femi Falana Part two of this piece published on Friday concluded with reference to a Court of Appeal ruling against vehicle inspection officers violently stopping motorists on public highways. Such conduct sends a wrong signal to the citizens who may adopt such strong-arm tactics as a means of settling disputes”.  In Femi Falana v Attorney-General of the Federation, the …

The simmering leadership crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress for several months took a different dimension on Monday in Abuja as most of the governors were said to have abandoned the Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, who had been steering the affairs of the APC since June 2020. Abubakar Bello and Mai Mala Buni …

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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed reports of the removal of Yobe State Governor, Mala Buni, as its interim national chairman. As reported by some media platforms, Mr Buni was sacked on Sunday night following allegations by members of the committee and APC governors that he has been working against the interest of the party. Quoting unnamed sources, the reports …

The Federal Government has inaugurated a seven-man committee to renegotiate the 2009 agreements it had with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions. ASUU has been on a one-month warning strike since February 14. Inaugurating the committee in Abuja, yesterday, Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, urged the members to re-negotiate, in realistic and workable terms, the 2009 …

• Party’s NEC to ratify CECPC’s chair removal next week• Bello mum as group decries dismissal• ex-PGF DG explains his misdeeds Prominent leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari actually approved the sack of the chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State. Some party …