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…Says Oshiomhole has no authority to constitute the committee as a suspended party member Embattled National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole suffered another setback on Friday as the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Apo, Abuja, Nigeria granted an order restraining the reconciliation committee that he constituted, from acting on the activities of the …

Edo State Government has renamed Textile Mill Road as Eribo Way, in honour of Late Pa Egiebor and Late Madam Omosede Eribo. Governor Godwin Obaseki declared this at the funeral service held in honour of Late Madam Eribo at her residence, in Benin City, Edo State. He extolled the entrepreneurial qualities of the late Eribos, noting that the Edo Textile …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “strongly condemned the violent re-arrest today of Omoyele Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare by officials of the State Security Service (SSS), and the apparent harassment and intimidation of Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu.” Armed SSS officials reportedly stormed the courtroom, causing pandemonium at the court and physically assaulting Mr Sowore. The judge reportedly had …

Operatives of Department of State Services wrestling Mr. Omoyele Sowore to the ground as they rearrested him inside the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday Embattled activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 general election, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has said that Nigeria belongs to every Nigerian and that no Nigerian should be afraid in …

The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board has approved the suspension of seven senior officers and one junior official of the Nigerian Correctional Service over the electrocution of five inmates of the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Ikoyi, Lagos. This, it said, was to facilitate unfettered investigation into the sad incident in which seven other inmates were also injured …

The State Security Service (SSS) has invaded the Federal High Court in a controversial bid to rearrest the Omoyele Sowore, PREMIUM TIMES can report. The SSS officers stormed the Abuja Division of the court on Friday morning, with attempts being made to break into the facility. Already aware of the development, Mr Sowore is held in the court with his …

An Edo State High Court has extended the order directing that Anselm Ojezua be recognized as chairman of the Edo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The extension was granted by Justice O Oviawe, on Thursday, December 5, ordering that the status quo as at 10th of November, 2019 with regards to the chairmanship of the APC be maintained. She …

Rights Activist and pro-democracy campaigner, Omoyele Sowore has regained freedom more than three months after he was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS). Sowore was arrested and charged to court by the Nigerian government for planning a nationwide tagged #RevolutionNow. He was released on Thursday evening after the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered his release for the …

Justice Muhammed Idris on Thursday sentenced a former Abia State governor, Orji Kalu, to 12 years in prison for stealing public funds while in office. Mr Kalu, a serving senator, was jailed alongside Udeh Udeogu, his Director of Finance and Accounts at the Abia State Government House during Mr Kalu’s tenure. Mr Udeogu was sentenced to 10 years in prison. …

The Senate has passed the 2020 appropriation bill. The passage was a sequel to the presentation of a report by the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Barau Jibrin. The budget was increased from N10.33 trillion presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on October 8 to N10.6 trillion (10,594,362,364,830). In the report presented by Mr Jibrin, N560.47 billion is for …