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Members of the 2019 election petition tribunals have been warned to avoid sentiments in handling the various cases brought before them. The President of the Court of Appeal, Zainab Bulkachuwa, gave the warning on Wednesday at the induction of the tribunal members in Abuja. Ms Bulkachuwa inaugurated the tribunal members before they were sworn in by the acting Chief Justice …

An opposition presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, claims he won in four of the states that the electoral commission, INEC, declared were won by President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Abubakar stated this in his “state to state computation” contained in his electoral petition filed earlier this week. The states Mr Abubakar is laying claim to are Kogi, Kaduna, Gombe and Niger. Backstory …

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday rejected a request by the African Action Congress and three of its members for an order of interim injunction stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission from going ahead with the collation and announcement of the results of the March 9, 2019 Governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections in Rivers State. Instead …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) computer server shows that Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the February 23 election with about 1.6 million votes to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari, the opposition candidate claims. This is contained in the petition filed on Monday by the PDP and Mr Abubakar, to challenge the victory of Mr Buhari and …

The Senate has suspended its plenary for two weeks to allow lawmakers to attend to budget matters. The motion for the adjournment was moved by Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, on Wednesday. Mr Lawan (APC, Yobe North) prayed the lawmakers to suspend their plenary until Tuesday, April 2. The senators adopted the prayer via a voice vote. After the passage, the …

Some details of the petition filed on Monday by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the February 23 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, emerged on Tuesday. The 141-page petition contained five grounds, one of which resuscitates the allegation that Buhari was not qualified to run …

Nigeria’s 2019 budget was on Tuesday passed for second reading at the Senate. The N8.8 trillion budget will now be worked on by the committee on appropriation. The committee was given two weeks to report back to the whole house. On January 28, the House of Representatives passed the bill for second reading. Passage of the budget comes after a …

The Nigerian Army has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC of betrayal, following its report on the suspended Rivers governorship and State Assembly elections, regretting that the body it sacrificed so much to assist towards a very successful conduct of election turned its back against it. The army also expressed disappointment over the action of the Nigeria Police regarding …

The Federal Government appears to be in a dilemma on how to source funds to pay the new N30,000 minimum wage to workers. The development is generating tension as the government fears that this might lead to another round of crisis between it and organised labour. Vanguard reliably gathered that between N200 billion and N300 billion is required annually to handle …

The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has maintained that suspended Justice Walter Onnoghen, remains the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. Muhammad said he would step aside once the Code of Conduct Tribunal or the Appeals Court rules in favour of Onnoghen. He, however, insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari did not need the permission of the National Judicial …