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…Tells Buhari on Adams Oshiomhole: If you reward fraudsters by giving them higher office, you are an accomplice   …Says only PDP elected legislators have attracted FG projects to Edo in last 3 years …Don’t vote for legislators who sold your mandate …APC brought suffering, hunger, unemployment, herdsmen menace, vote buying etc. …Atiku is the Solution to Get Nigeria Working …

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has accused police officers of providing cover for thugs who are attacking his supporters in Kwara State. Mr Saraki also accused the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, of ‘undue interference’ in the Kwara police command He asked Nigerians to hold the police boss responsible if anything untoward happens to him and family members. He …

PREMIUM TIMES has obtained details of a statement given by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, to the Code of Conduct Bureau which is accusing him of false asset declaration. In one note seen by this newspaper, Mr Onnoghen said he “forgot to update his asset declaration, after the expiration of his 2005 declaration”. Mr Onnoghen also explained that …

The Code of Conduct Bureau has slammed corruption charges against the Chief Justice of Nigeria at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, court documents showed. Walter Onnoghen became the Chief Justice in March 2017, less than six months after the homes of several federal judges, including those of the Supreme Court, were searched in an anti-corruption raid. On January 10, the Nigerian government …

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has alerted Nigerians and the International Community that the ruling All Progressives Congress wants to destroy the Nigerian judiciary barely 30 days to general elections, in their alleged desperation to manipulate and thwart the will of Nigerians. He said that APC was afraid of an independent judiciary because of …

Opposition parties on the platform of the Coalition of United Political Parties are planning a one-million-man march to protest the planned trial of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The coalition’s first national spokesperson, Imo Ugochinyere, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Saturday. Ugochinyere said the …

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, is set to be arraigned before Justice Danladi Umar of the Code of Conduct Tribunal who was also accused of corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Onnoghen, who is the highest judicial officer in Nigeria, has been accused of failing to declare five bank accounts, in contravention of Section 15 …

Masked police operatives have stormed the hospital where Dino Melaye, the Senator representing Kogi West was receiving treatment and whisked him away, according to Premium Time report. The officers forced the lawmaker, who was on the hospital bed, into an unmarked vehicle and drove him to an undisclosed location, witnesses told PREMIUM TIMES. Mr Melaye was arrested last week after …

No fewer than 815 contractors were recently shortlisted by the Border Communities Development Agency (BDCA) for hundreds of constituency projects despite failing to meet federal contracting requirements, an ongoing investigation by PREMIUM TIMES has revealed. It is the second time in less than a month that the agency has been exposed for procurement irregularity. Being shortlisted presupposes that an applicant …

Troubled Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) has been given a seven-day ultimatum  by Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki to restore power supply to consumers in the state or risk shutdown of its offices in the state. Obaseki gave the ultimatum on Friday as he concluded the ward-to-ward campaign in Egor Local Government Area, where he urged voters in the area …