The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has demanded an apology from the governor of Ebonyi State, Engr Dave Umahi for describing the court judgment that sacked him and his deputy as jungle justice and Justice Inyang Ekwo as a hatch man. ...
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Russia bombs maternity and children’s hospital in Ukraine
Russian forces bombed a maternity and children’s hospital in southern Ukraine, authorities there said Wednesday, an attack described by the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky as an “atrocity. “The attack came despite Russia agreeing to a 12-hour pause in hostilities to allow refugees ...
Read More »Senate rejects Buhari’s request to delete clause ‘disenfranchising’ appointees in electoral act
The Nigerian Senate today rejected President Buhari’s request for the house to delete the clause in the newly-signed electoral act that in his opinion disenfranchises political appointees. During the signing of the bill on February 25, President Buhari had criticized the ...
Read More »Two candidates emerge from PDP governorship primaries in Osun State
Two candidates, Senator Ademola Adeleke and Prince Dotun Babayemi are laying claim to the People’s Democratic Party’s ticket, after being elected in separate primary elections in Osogbo, the state capital. It was gathered that while one primary election took place at the Osogbo City ...
Read More »Police DIG in charge of Force Criminal Investigation, Egbunike slumps, dies in his office
A deputy inspector general and the head of the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Joseph Egbunike is dead, SaharaReporters reports. Egbunike collapsed inside his office in Abuja in the late hours of Tuesday, 8th of March. Until his ...
Read More »PDP submits Umahi’s replacement to INEC, sacked Gov Umahi sits tight
Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday declared as illegal, the defection of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and his deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe, from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. ...
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