NNAMDI KANU's Sokoto Prisons Transfer Bid Fails
Kanu’s legal representative, DEMDOO ASAN, who is from the Legal Aid Council, informed the court about his decision to withdraw from the matter due to what he described as “irreconcilable issues”.
Kanu’s legal representative, DEMDOO ASAN, who is from the Legal Aid Council, informed the court about his decision to withdraw from the matter due to what he described as “irreconcilable issues”.
"I did not join the ADC to make Nigeria progressively worse so my beliefs and conscience won’t allow me partner with the evil that Atiku and his people represent" BANACHIR DAVID LAWAL stated.
The drug convicts, including seventy-five women, were awarded a combined jail term of two hundred and fifty-four years.
The Judge also ordered that the convict be registered in the Public Offenders Register, in addition to signing an undertaking with the EFCC never to commit any financial crime within and outside the shores of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The NNPP maintained that the leadership crisis in its fold had nothing to do with APC, or the Tinubu-led administration but borne out of the betrayal of trust by Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Elder Buba Galadima.
Following the development, the trial judge adjourned the case till October 27 for the defendant to open his defence, warning that the six days granted Kanu to conduct his defence, which began on October 23, will not be extended.
The convicts journey to the Correctional Centre began with their arrest in a sting operation by operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the EFCC due to their involvement in fraudulent internet activities.
The Governor gave the assurance during the inauguration of the newly built Judges' Quarters within the Old GRA in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area. The housing facility was started by the immediate past administration under Governor Nyesom Wike.
Lyon officials including owner John Textor, met with the DNGC on Tuesday but failed to convince the body that the club had sufficiently improved their financial situation to lift the punishment.
The PSC Chairman made the observation during a meeting with members of the Committee for the Implementation of State Police, led by the Chairman, Professor OLU OGUNSAKIN.
Prosecuting lawyer, ADEGBOYEGA AWOMOLO, announced the closure of the prosecution’s case after its fifth witness concluded his testimony.
Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan took the matter to the global stage, during her participation at the Women in Parliament Session during the Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting (IPU) at the United Nations in New York.
The Minister mandated the Director in the office of the Permanent Secretary, MUSA IBRAHIM, to work towards inaugurating a committee next week to ensure timely completion of the rail project in Kaduna State.
NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, FEMI BABAFEMI, paraded the suspects before newsmen at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, joined by the Director of Assets and Financial Investigation, ABDUL IBRAHIM, and the Director of Prosecution and Legal Services, THERESA ASUQUO.
President TINUBU expressed his views in a half-hearted statement, nearly forty-eight hours after the deadly terror attack on residents of Angwan Rukuba district in Jos, Plateau State.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, OSA DIRECTOR, the NDC said the scandal raised fundamental questions about the level of transparency, accountability and integrity of the Tinubu Administration.
Sunday Dare, the Special Adviser to the President, Media and Public Communication, announced the new appointments in a statement, saying the appointments are with immediate effect.
The commission said that the ponzi scheme operators pose as investment entities in a bid to lure and defraud innocent Nigerians of their hard-earned money.
Justice ITSUELI, however, gave each of the convicts an option of fine of Two Hundred Thousand Naira and a written undertaking to be of good behaviour.
This comes more than six weeks after CSP HUNDEYIN announced the arrest of forty-four-year-old AKINWANDE on June at his hideout in the Agbado area of Ogun State 20, following he called a coordinated tactical operation code-named ‘Silence, Speed and Surprise’.
Governor Alex Otti spoke at the flag-off of the reconstruction of Obehie-Umudobia-Owaza Road in Ukwa West Local Government Area, stressing that the 11.1km road would enhance connectivity and economic opportunities within communities in Ukwa West.
KELVIN and AUSTIN have a custom-built glass cubicle specially designed for them in the middle of New York's Times Square, where they are not just required to watch every match, but also to create content for fans.
Today, some of those same lawmakers are being trapped by the very laws they passed.
The position of the South-South Governors was contained in a statement signed by their Chairman and Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, which was made known to newsmen in the state capital, Yenagoa.
This comes less than three months after President BOLA AHMED TINUBU signed into the tax reforms laws on June 26, 2025.
Abdulmuiz Adeleke, who netted the first goal in the 2-1 win over Edo State on Monday, came up big with a brace against Ebonyi State in Friday morning’s quarter-final encounter, which the Eaglets won 5-0 to sail into the last four.
Details of the payments were made known in a statement by MARY-ANN DUKE; the Senior Special Assistant on Communication and Press Secretary to the Honorable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy. Contractors considered for payment are those owed N100b or less.
The State Chief Judge, Justice SIMEON CHIBUZOR-AMADI, had approved the Easter vacation with effect from Monday, April 14 to Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
Justice AJOKU convicted and sentenced the defendants to thirty months imprisonment each, with an option of Two Hundred Thousand Naira fine respectively.
They were arrested in K-Vom and Rayfield areas in Jos, Plateau State on Saturday March 8, 2025, following credible intelligence on their suspected involvement in internet-related activities.