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The presidential election petition tribunal has ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is at liberty to determine its mode of transmitting election results. Haruna Tsammani, chairman of the tribunal, on Wednesday, cited the judgment of a federal high court in suit FHC/ABJ/CS/1454/2022 delivered on January 23, 2023. Tsammani said the […]

The presidential election tribunal has stated that the Labour Party (LP) failed to prove that President Bola Tinubu should have been disqualified from contesting the 2023 election on account of a forfeiture agreement. In 1993, Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the US government after a Chicago court found that the money was the proceed […]

The election petition tribunal sitting in Lokoja has declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as the winner of the Kogi central senatorial district election. The tribunal, led by Kemakolam Ojiako, in its ruling on Wednesday, declared Akpoti-Uduaghan as the winner of the senatorial election conducted on February 25. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had […]

The presidential election petition tribunal has dismissed the petition of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on the eligibility of Peter Obi to contest the 2023 general election. The APC had challenged Obi’s membership of the Labour Party (LP), declaring it incompetent. Justice Abba Mohammed, a member of the five-member panel who […]

The election petition tribunal in Abuja has stated that the petition filed by Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, was vague in certain aspects.  In the lead judgment read by Justice Abba Bello Mohammed, the tribunal held that the petitioners (Obi and LP) only referred to […]

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The Labour Party (LP) says the speech delivered by Mary Peter-Odili, a retired justice of the supreme court, at a public event last Friday is dangerous to the democratic journey of the nation. During a colloquium organised in Abuja to mark the 25th anniversary of Joe Gadzama as a senior advocate of Nigeria […]

Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), says Africa’s carbon sequestration capacity must be accounted for in its overall gross domestic product (GDP). Carbon sequestration is the capturing and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in plants, soils, geologic formations, and the ocean. Speaking on Tuesday at the Africa Climate Summit […]