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•Court reserves judgment on Obi, LP’s appeal, dismisses APM’s case •Atiku insists on CSU evidence, ex-VP’s disposition invalid, says Tinubu The Chairman of the Supreme Court panel hearing the appeals against the election of President Bola Tinubu, Justice John Okoro, said on Monday that the Peoples Democratic Party standard bearer in the February presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, must prove the …

Yocheved Lifshitz, who was released by Hamas on Monday, told reporters on Tuesday that she “went through hell” in Gaza. Yocheved Lifshitz speaks to members of the media in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 24. Janis Laizans/Reuters Lifschitz, an 85-year-old grandmother, was held captive in Gaza for more than two weeks before being released and returned to Israel late Monday evening. …

The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers has accused terminal operators of incessantly increasing the price of gas, exploiting and limiting its availability to Nigerians. FILE PHOTO: Gas plant The marketers, led by the association’s president, Oladapo Olatunbosun. on Monday, told the Senate that the Nigeria Natural Liquefied Gas has been consistent with its supply but the cabals have …

Michael Cohen was once one of Donald Trump’s most loyal allies But after going to jail for tax crimes and lying to Congress, Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” became a star witness against his former boss, testifying before Congress about the hush-money payments he made to women claiming affairs with Trump and writing books highly critical of the former president. Tuesday, Trump and Cohen are expected …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Edo State Police Command said it has arrested the trigger-happy vigilante alleged to have accidentally shot to death, at a funeral in Benin City last weekend, his colleague who was ready to fly to United Kingdom after securing a five-year work visa. The command also stated that the locally made single barrel gun and the expended cartridge …

Nigeria has won its bid to overturn an $11 billion damages bill involving the controversial Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) deal. Nigeria claims that the collapsed gas processing project was procured by a campaign of bribery and fraud. Nigeria has now succeeded in halting the enforcement of the $11 billion arbitration award in favour of P&ID. In a judgment Monday, a UK …

The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, against the tribunal’s judgment affirming President Bola Tinubu’s election. The seven-man panel led by John Inyang Okoro after listening to the submissions of the parties involved in the matter said the judgment date would be communicated to them. Other members …

The Nigerian government has announced a new date for the implementation of the Access to Higher Education Act, otherwise known as the Students Loan Law, recently assented to by President Bola Tinubu. Since signing the bill into law in June, many Nigerians have criticised its introduction, describing it as a ground for the introduction of tuition fees in the nation’s tertiary …

Some experts express mixed feelings about the impact of the CBN policy on the state of food security in the country. Last Thursday, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced that it had lifted the restriction on the 43 items prohibited, in 2015, from accessing foreign exchange (FX) from the official foreign exchange windows. “Importers of all the 43 items previously restricted by the …

As the Supreme Court gets set to hear appeals seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 2023 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that nothing ought to stop the apex court from accepting his fresh evidence. Atiku stated this in a reply on the point of law …