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A Federal High Court sitting in Gusau, the Zamfara State has nullified the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship primary election that presented Dauda Lawal as the Governorship Candidate. In a judgment delivered by Justice Aminu Bappa, the court granted all the prayers by the plaintiff which is to nullify the primary election. The Jurist ordered fresh primary election in line with the constitution of PDP and guidelines of the party: “The court has granted the prayers submitted in this honorable court by the plaintiffs and hereby ruled in their favour”. “The 109-page judgement will be presented to the counsels…
The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has encouraged Nigerians to remain confident in the face of lingering crisis affecting the party. Charles Aniagwu, a spokesman of the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign organisation, says internal wrangling is one of the many characteristics of democratic governance. Aniagwu spoke during an interview on Arise Television. He said the Party is committed to the ideals of freedom of speech as guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution adding that aggrieved members of the party are exercising their democratic rights. “Atiku is a man of character who keeps his word. If he says look, we are going to…
President of NANS, Comr Umar Faruk Lawal, has dragged the Federal Government and ASUU to industrial court over the lingering ASUU strike. Details shortly….
Information available to SPY Reporters has confirmed exchange of gunfire in Aladja community, Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. According to eyewitness account, the people of Ogbe-Ijoh community in Warri South-West Local Government were allegedly shooting sporadically in Aladja community. An indigene of Aladja community, Comrade Ighotegwolor Bezi who spoke to DAILY POST correspondent raised the alarm in a telephone conversation. According to Bezi, “no one has been wounded or killed at the moment, but the area is tensed. We are calling on the relevant security agencies, including the Delta State Government to come to the rescue of the…
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke have disclosed that the union is willing to end its seven-month old strike. Osodeke gave the assurance in Abuja at a National Town Hall Meeting on Tertiary Education tagged: ‘ The Locked Gates of our Citadels -A National Emergency.’ Read the conditions below: “On all these issues, we have given the government a minimum that we can accept, but they have not responded on issue of revitiliszation and on issue of earned allowance and other issues that we have all discussed. “We negotiated and agreed…
Premium Times reports that no fewer than 1,868 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto State have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of next year’s general elections. This was contained in a statement issued by the state PDP spokesman, Malam Hassan Sanyinnawal, in Sokoto on Thursday. According to Sanyinnawal, the defectors, who are businessmen from 10 communities across the state, were received by the state PDP Chairman, Alhaji Bello Goronyo. He quoted Goronyo, who was represented by the party’s zonal Chairman, Sokoto Central, Alhaji Muhammad Dangoggo, assuring the new entrants of equal treatment with other…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has vowed to drag the foremost Fulani socio-cultural group, Miyetti Allah, to the International Criminal Court, ICC, over invasion and killings in the state allegedly carried out by armed Fulani herdsmen. The resolution was made known by the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Michael Gusa, who hinted that killings going on in the state has escalated. He explained that it was important for the government to take necessary action since from available records, the masterminds of genocide in the state were already known by their victims. The Commissioner who noted a recent…
Governor Nyesom Wike has ended the era of denial of women rights of inheritance in Rivers state as he signed into law three new bills passed by the State House of Assembly. He signed the Rivers State Prohibition of the Curtailment of Women’s Right to Share in Family Property Law No. 2 of 2022 alongside the Rivers Compulsory Treatment and Care of Victims of Gunshots Law No. 3 of 2022, and the Rivers Pension Reform (amendment) Law No. 4 of 2022. Hinting on the significance of the law, the Governor said he could not comprehend why it…
The National Security Council has declared the National Task Force on Prohibition of Illegal Importation/Smuggling of Arms, Ammunition, Light Weapons Chemical Weapons and Pipelines Vandalism (NATFORCE) an illegal organisation. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the Council’s meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. He said the highest executive security body passed a vote of confidence on the security chiefs in the ongoing fight against terrorism. Aregbesola, who jointly addressed correspondents along with the Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Maigari Dingyadi, said the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration hopes to end security challenges…
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to present Nigeria’s 2023 budget in October. Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila gave the disclosure in Abuja after inspecting hearing rooms 028 and 234 of the Lower Chamber. SPY Reporters gathered that the rooms will serve as the temporary chamber due to the ongoing renovation of the House complex. “I am hoping that the budget will be presented latest by first week of October”, NAN quoted him saying. The lawmaker added that configuration of the temporary chamber would be done before September 20, date for resumption of plenary. “We…