In a recent interview on Channels TV, renowned human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, has passionately urged President Bola Tinubu to take a firm stance in ensuring that the 2027 elections in Nigeria are not marred by the same old problems that have plagued past elections. Falana emphasized that it’s high time to end the ...

  Robert Clarke, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the lawyers who represented the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in suits challenging President Bola Tinubu’s election did not display a good sense of legal practice. The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Thursday affirmed the election of President Tinubu in the 2023 ...

A Nigerian US-based lawyer, Mr Chris Okobah, on Tuesday, charged the Independent National Electoral Commission to improve the nation’s electoral system to stop the judiciary from deciding the fate of election results. Okobah, speaking in Asaba, said the court has become a refuge for the political elite who manipulate the electoral system to achieve their ...

  The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Nasarawa State has invalidated Governor Abdullahi Sule’s election victory on Monday. The three-man panel led by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi, while delivering the judgment via Zoom, said Emmanuel Ombudagu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is the winner. In a split decision, two justices sided with the PDP as ...

In a bid to beat the 180 days deadline Governorship Election Petition Tribunals for most states have delivered judgments on the outcome of the March 18, 2023, governorship elections. They include Kano, Bauchi, Zamfara, Plateau, Benue, Enugu, Lagos, Benue, Cross River, Gombe, Akwa-Ibom, among others. The judgments have continued to elicit mixed reaction from different ...

There was confusion over the judgement of the Kaduna State governorship election petition tribunal delivered on Thursday. The three-man panel led by Justice Victor Oviawe had delivered judgement on the petition filed by Mohammed Isa Ashiru of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) via Zoom. While several reports in the media claimed that the tribunal nullified ...

  Prior to last week’s series of judgments by the Governorship Election Petition Tribunals (GEPT) across the country, the political mood of the country was anything but pensive. It was a moment of great expectation. The ordinary voters who trooped out to vote for their preferred candidates but had different candidates declared as winners, expected ...

The Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has said he was surprised that the Federal Government led by President Bola Tinubu has not been able to ‘perform well’ since it took over office on May 29, adding that all is not well with the country. He urged Nigerians to pray for the country, noting ...

A former chairperson of the Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL) of the Nigerian Bar Association, Monday Ubani, has said the Nigerian Judiciary is overburdened with election matters. Mr Ubani, a lawyer, spoke when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday. “SPIDEL just finished a conference in Lagos, ...

The United States says it has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on individuals in Nigeria who disrupted the recently concluded elections. Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, announced the development in a statement on Monday. Blinken clarified that the sanctions were specific to certain individuals and not the Nigerian people or the government as ...

    Festus Keyamo, the immediate past Minister of State for Labour and Employment, said the European Union Observer Mission (EUOM) 2023 general elections report does not delegitimize the process. Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, disclosed this on Monday while reacting to the report through his official Twitter handle. Recall that the EUOM, in ...

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN has constituted Election Appeal committees saddled with the responsibility of resolving issues arising from the Branch And Sections Elections. While the Branch Election Appeals Committees are to receive and resolve complaints and disputes, from their respective Zones, arising from the conduct by ...

  The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola on Thursday swore in 39 additional judges to man the election petition tribunals currently sitting across the federation. The CJN, during the ceremony which took place at the Supreme Court, said the judges were found worthy to be appointed as additional members of tribunals that have ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court on Thursday in Abuja fixed May 18, 2023, for a hearing of a motion on notice seeking a live telecast of the proceedings of the court. The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, alongside his party, filed the motion. At Thursday’s proceedings, counsel to Atiku, Chief ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court has dismissed the petition by the Action People’s Party which challenged the victory of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, at the February 25 presidential elections. The court dismissed the petition marked CA/PEPC/02/2023 following its withdrawal by the party. The PEPC adjourned to Wednesday the continuation of the pre-hearing of the petition ...

    The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, affirmed Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the validly elected Governor of Osun State. The apex court, in its lead judgement they were delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, dismissed an appeal that was lodged against Adeleke’s election victory by the former governor of the state, ...