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The acting National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Victor Giadom, has described the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC Governors Forum in postponing the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting indefinitely as commendable. Mr Giadom spoke just as an FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, on Monday, granted an interim order permitting him to act as the National …

The Court of Appeal Abuja has ordered a stay of execution of suspension on suspended National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress APC, Adams Oshiomhole. Justice Abubakar Datti Yahaya who presided over a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, gave the order on Monday while delivering a ruling in an ex-parte application filed by Oshiomhole. Oshiomole had in an …

*Toddler rescued from collapsed building *Truck driver not dead *Lagos govt probes cause, sets-up N2b relief fund *NNPC Right of Way intact — Kyari *No student died—Sch mgt * Catholic Church confirms death of Alokha *Incident beyond pipeline explosion —Aare Adams *PDP, Afenifere, ERA/FoEN call for inquiry The death toll in Sunday’s Lagos explosion, at Ado Soba, in Abule Ado, …

Nigeria’s diplomatic missions in Washington, New York and Atlanta, United States, have suspended passport interviews and biometric data capture over the coronavirus crisis. The suspension, which takes effect from Monday, is until further notice, the missions said in separate statements made available to newsmen on Sunday. According to the statements, the decision is part of precautionary measures to protect the …

•Appeal Court halts execution of suspension order •High court approves Giadom as acting chairman •Why APC postponed NEC meeting •Govs at loggerheads over legal requirements •Anger in anti-Oshiomhole’s camp; lawyers divided •Giadom unfit to sit in NWC, say Omo-Agege, others Abuja Appeal Court, on Monday, gave the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, a life …

The South-East Governors’ Forum has concluded plans to launch its own security outfit for the region in April, chairman of the forum, Governor David Umahi, has disclosed. This is coming as the former governor of the old Anambra State, Senator Jim Nwobodo, charged the governors to set up without further delay a regional security outfit that would be completely under …

Ghana moved swiftly to ban mass cluster gatherings, including prayer sessions in mosques and churches, as the country’s number of infected cases of the COVID-19 pandemic climbed from two to six Sunday. President Nana Akufo-Addo, in an address on Sunday evening, ordered the suspension of public gatherings, including religious services for the next four weeks. “I have decided in the …

Sokoto State Governor, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has advised leaders and stakeholders in Nigeria not to politicise the triple issues of the monarchy, religion and security. Tambuwal gave the advice when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, paid him a courtesy visit along with the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Saad Abubakar III, in Government House in …

•Suspends attendance at tomorrow’s NEC meeting•Tinubu backs national chairman Embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, gets a lifeline today as President Muhammadu Buhari meets with the party’s governors in Abuja. Oshiomhole, who has been battling to retain his position following his suspension by an Abuja High Court, also got a hefty relief yesterday as …

•Malami denies involvement in former emir’s travails The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission will soon invite the deposed Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II, to defend himself against charges of impropriety in an alleged N2.2 billion land scam. The scam was said to have involved the sale of some hectares of land in Darmanawa Phase I and …