Former Military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has pleaded with presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party (LP), counterpart, Peter Obi, as well as other candidates in the 2023 general elections to allow the elections petition tribunal and the judiciary to perform its role in ...

The long-anticipated Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal will begin hearing on Monday. The court will listen to different petitions challenging the emergence of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as Nigeria’s President-elect. The date was confirmed by the National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, Ahmad El-Marzuq. According to El-Marzuq, the APC legal ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says there are growing worries that the election petition tribunals have yet to commence hearing of disputed polls as it plans to create a “hall of shame” for questionable judges. NLC president Joe Ajaero, at a news conference organised by the Labour and Civil Society Movement Front on Sunday, accused ...

The President of the Court of Appeal, Monica Dongban-Mensem, has directed that the Ebonyi State Election Petitions Tribunal be relocated to Abuja immediately. The Secretary of the tribunal, Nyior Sekulla announced this in Abakaliki on Wednesday. He said the tribunal office at the Ebonyi State Judiciary Headquarters in Abakaliki has been shut down from Wednesday, ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Saturday, April 15 for conclusion of the Governorship elections in Adamawa and Kebbi States hitherto declared inconclusive. The Commission also said all National and Assembly elections declared inconclusive will also be concluded on the same day. Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekunmi said this ...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa has said that an investigation has been launched into the alleged threat issued against Igbo by the Lagos State Parks Management Committee Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo. Owohunwa made this known while featuring in an interview with TV Arise News on the preview of ...

    Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN and President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has restated a position he has maintained before now that “… the NBA has no candidate in this election and would never have a candidate in any election; it is not a political party, has no affiliation with any political ...

Recently, I have been getting calls from journalists and reporters requesting me to give them a summarized update on the ongoing INEC/ presidential election saga, they always end it by asking me what I think could likely be the outcome of the case in the election petition tribunal and I will sincerely answer them that ...

The last presidential and National Assembly elections were as crucial to our democracy as they were controversial. A lot was riding on them, delivering more drama than anticipated. Our present reality is that going by the posturing of key political gladiators, the 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections have triggered direct judicial intervention as the ...

The African Bar Association has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission was ill-prepared for the 2023 General Elections, as monumental as it was. President of the association, Hannibal Uwaifo, said this in a statement while disclosing the observations of the continental bar on the just concluded polls. According to him, the AfBA, which served ...

Since political thugs and their sponsors have made fair elections impossible and governments have not been able to think outside the box, Nigerians should meet at their villages and select representatives who would govern them, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Jibrin Samuel Okutepa, has suggested. Okutepa, who is the founding Partner of J.S. Okutepa ...

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has said that he complied with all extant laws and did not act in contravention of any provision(s) of the law. Malami made the clarification, following criticisms over the public display of his ballot paper after voting,  in a statement issued by ...

Polls are now open for the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Nigeria and citizens who are duly registered can now go out and voted for their preferred candidates. The election is seen as the most open since Africa’s most populous nation switched from military rule to democracy in 1999. According to the Independent National Electoral ...

The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a federal lawmaker, Dr. Chinyere Igwe, with $498,100 on suspicion of attempted vote buying and money laundering. The lawmaker who represents Port Harcourt Federal Constituency 2 in the House of Representatives was arrested along Aba Road in the state capital. It was gathered that the suspect was picked ...

With four weeks to the general election, new developments have continued to unfold, raising concerns about how they may affect the polls. On Wednesday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced the death of Uche Ikonne, its governorship candidate in Abia. Hours after his death, there have been speculations about who replaces him as the party’s ...