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Our Reporter, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has suspended its Resident Electoral Commissioner REC in Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa-Ari from office. This follows his illegal declaration of the All Progressives Congress APC Governorship Candidate, Aisha Dahiru Binani, as Governor-Elect in last weekend’s rerun election. As a result, the REC has been ordered to stay away from the office of the commission in Yola, Adamawa State. INEC in a letter dated April 17, 2023, and signed by its Secretary, Rose Oriaran-Anthony, has therefore directed its Administrative Secretary in the state to take charge of its affairs. The suspension letter read in part: “I hereby…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A member of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team, Prince Mandela Umegborogu, has raised an alarm over the alleged relocation of a tuberculosis inmate near the cell where the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is detained at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of State Services, DSS. Kanu has remained in DSS custody since his extraordinary rendition from Kenya in June 2021. Kanu’s lawyer who raised the alarm Monday after a routine visit to the IPOB Leader, expressed deep worry over the grave health implications of having a tuberculosis patient near Kanu’s cell. He said…
Agency Report Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has constituted a 23-member transition committee to prepare the ground for the smooth handover of power to the Governor-Elect, Dr Alex Otti. The committee, which is headed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Chris Ezem, include an eight-member team nominated to represent Otti’s interest. The Leader of Otti’s team, Rev. Fr. Christian Anokwuru, told newsmen in Umuahia that the committee would be open and transparent in their deliberations for proper documentation of facts. Anokwuru said, “For a smooth and seamless handover of power and the sake of interfacing, eight members of…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former Lagos Governor and Minister for Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has finally opened up on the dual citizenship of the President-elect, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Fashola who was responding to an online revelation that Tinubu has Guinea passport, said “the Nigerian constitution allows Tinubu as well as Nigerian citizens to have dual citizenship.” The former Lagos Governor who featured on a national television was the first APC stalwart to respond to the controversy over Tinubu’s dual citizenship. According to Fashola, having dual citizenship will not prevent a citizen from…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Anglican Diocese of Nike in Enugu State, has vowed to take strong and far-reaching actions against anyone indulging in same-sex marriage and homosexuality among its members. “In addition to consequences of homosexuality as explicitly stated in the scriptures, the Diocese shall take strong actions against anyone indulging in the act, including handing such a person to the law enforcement agencies,” Rt. Rev. Christian Onyia, Bishop of the Diocese, said. Onyia said this on Monday at the end of the five-day Second session of the 6th Synod of the Diocese at the Church of the Beatitudes,…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Campaign for Democracy South-East (CD) and the Human Rights Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE) say time has come for the British government to leave Nigeria alone to mind her business. The group was speaking over what played out in the reported arrest and detention of Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate at Heathrow Airport, London. The groups in a statement over the weekend in Abuja said the latest development has confirmed British Government’s conspiracy to continue to sustain bad, obnoxious and corrupt leadership in Nigeria. In the statement endorsed by the South-East…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declined comment on the recent discovery and media report that Mr Peter Obi of Labour Party, and not Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), won the presidential poll in Rivers State according to results uploaded on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV). INEC National Commissioner and Head Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Festus Okoye, Monday, told Ikengaonline in an exclusive interview, that the electoral umpire would not comment on the matter which is already a subject of litigation. He said that since the matter was already pending…
By Owei Lakemfa Prince Bolasodun Adesumbo ‘Bola’ Ajibola, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, and ex-judge of the International Court of Justice, ICJ, passed away on April 9, 2023 at 89. Deservedly, lots of encomiums have been showered on the late founder of Crescent University and former Nigeria High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. However, nagging questions remain: should a good man serve a bad government? Should an honest man be the chief legal adviser of a dishonest government? Should a learned man immersed in the rule of law, serve a lawless government steeped in executive lawlessness? When…
EDITORIAL Since he traded his khaki uniform for an Agbada, President Buhari and his image makers have worked relentlessly to launder his image from a cold-blooded military dictator to a reformed democrat who is ready to submit to the rule of law. Thus far, he has failed woefully, not because it’s such an onerous task to accomplish, but mostly due to a lack of willingness to even try It has been almost twenty-one months since Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Biafran separatist movement, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was illegally abducted from the East African country…
An unusual silence has echoed from the camp of President-elect Bola Tinubu after his Guinean diplomatic passport surfaced on social media, sending internet users into a frenzy over how the new leader of Africa’s largest economy lied to the nation’s electoral commission while under oath. On Saturday night, minutes before midnight, independent journalist David Hundeyin uploaded images of a Guinean diplomatic passport bearing “Bola Ahmed Tinubu” on his Twitter account. The passport also carried Mr Tinubu’s image and said it was issued in October 2015, expiring five years later in October 2020. The passport was apparently issued to Mr Tinubu…