2023 Archives - Page 11 of 147

Oct

25

2023

The Supreme Court will rule on Atiku and Obi’s petitions on October 26.

News2023, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Court, Peter Obi

The Supreme Court has finally scheduled Thursday, October 26, for the delivery of final rulings in the two surviving cases contesting the validity of President Bola Tinubu's declaration as the victor of the most recent presidential election. These are the petitions that Atiku Abubakar, the PDP's presidential candidate, and Peter Gregory Obi, the Labour Party's candidate, both filed. Dr. Awemeri Festus Akande, the Supreme Court's Director of Press and Information, verified the news on Wednesday.According to him, sufficient security measures have been put in place to guard against security lapses both inside and outside the courthouse.On Monday, attorneys for the…

Oct

25

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Condemns Chief Edwin Clark’s Divisive Rhetoric and Calls for National Unity

Opinion, Politics, Sponsored2023, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Opinion, Politics

PRESS RELEASE Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, strongly denounces Chief Edwin Clark's recent vituperative rhetoric and exclusionary stance towards Abia, Imo, and Ondo States in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). We view his remarks as an affront to national cohesion, unity, and a promotion of ethnic bigotry. Chief Clark's proposal to expel Abia, Imo, and Ondo States from the NDDC based on their geographical location and quantity of oil deposits is not only misguided but also reeks of parochialism. Such exclusionary suggestions are detrimental to the progress and unity of our great nation. We call on President…

Oct

23

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Group condemns Gov. Lawal’s demand for President Tinubu to step down.

Opinion, Politics2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Court, Crime, Opinion

The governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal, has come under fire from the Arewa APC Vanguard for calling on President Bola Tinubu to resign due to his alleged certificate fraud, which is currently being considered by the Supreme Court. The organization called Governor Dauda Lawal's call nasty, aggressive, and harmful, and described the governor's actions as contempt of court. Newsmen in Gusau, the capital of Zamfara State, were provided with a press statement by Jonathan Audu, the chairman of Arewa APC Vanguard, disclosing this information. The group claimed that President Bola Tinubu should be permitted to carry out the excellent…

Oct

22

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Consider Nigeria first, Timi Frank tells Justices of Supreme Court

Opinion, Politics2023, Breaking, Opinion, Politics, Timi Frank

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has called on Supreme Court Justices to put the interest of Nigerians first for the sustainability of democracy as they adjudicate on the appeals challenging the eligibility of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President. Frank made this call in a statement in Abuja, in reaction to hearing notices from the court to parties in the case fixed for Monday and the setting up of a seven-man panel of Justices to hear the appeals filed by three presidential candidates challenging the outcome of the February 25 election and…

Oct

13

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Chicagogate: A ‘Severe And Irreparable’ Damage

Politics2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Opinion, Politics, Sheddy Ozone

By SHEDDY OZOENE It has happened in the past that some men, great and small, were able to predict looming unsavoury fates. While some of such predictions end up as flukes, others have come in pin-point correct. A few, like Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln, went to the extent of predicting their own deaths. It is called premonition. As the case instituted by Atiku Abubakar at the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, to compel the Chicago State University to disclose Bola Tinubu's academic records proceeded to a decisive end, the Nigerian President had…