Supreme Court’s Split Judgment Vindicates Our Appeal- PDP

Supreme Court’s Split Judgment Vindicates Our Appeal- PD   The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the split judgment by the Supreme Court on the flawed nomination of Ondo state Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, shows that there is merit in its appeal against his election as governor.   The party notes that the majority judgement as presented by the Supreme Court did not address the impunity in the action of the Yobe Governor, Mai Mala Buni, in functioning as the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) while at the same time holding office as a sitting governor, contrary to the provisions

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Int’l refugee law permits Igboho to enter any country even with fake passport –Agitator’s lawyer

The International Refugee Law permits Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, to enter any country even with a “fake passport”, Olasupo Ojo, Coordinator, Legal Affairs for the agitator, has said. Article 31 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees provides thus: “The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of Article 1, enter or are present in their territory without authorisation, provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities

Nigeria has Decree 4 of 1984, not a constitution –Igboho’s lawyer

Nigeria has the Protection Against False Accusations Decree, otherwise known as Decree 4 of 1984, and not the 1999 Constitution, Olasupo Ojo, Coordinator, Legal Affairs for embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has said. He spoke on Wednesday while featuring on PUNCH Online interview programme, The Roundtable. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had introduced the draconian decree when he was head of state between December 1983 and August 1985. He had seized power through a coup on New Year’s Eve and took strong measures against the press, jailed journalists and kicked strongly against free speech

Court Acquits, Discharges El-Zakzaky, Wife, Orders Immediate Release

Justice Gideon Kurada of the Kaduna State High Court has acquitted and discharged the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El- Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat Ibrahim who have been standing trial in the court for the past four years. In a judgement delivered on Wednesday, Justice Kurada said the case was not shown nor proven by the prosecutor. El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, are standing trial on eight counts bordering on alleged culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, disruption of public peace, among others. The defendants had pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them. The

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Just In: We have offered consular assistance to Nnamdi Kanu – British Govt

British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, has said that the Commission has offered consular assistance to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. Starnews Nigeria reports that Kanu was arrested in Kenya on June 27, 2021, and extradited to Nigeria on June 29, 2021. Speaking on a programme on Arise TV, the UK High Commissioner stated that the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu who is a British citizen has received consular assistance from the British Government. On inquiry, Laing said: “On Nnamdi Kanu, all I would say is that we are on record of

Breaking: Akeredolu humbles Jegede, as Supreme Court upholds his election

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed the petition filed against the victory of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the October 10, 2020 governorship election by Mr Eyitayo Jegede, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The legal firework has now ended today as the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land upheld the election of the Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu. Starnews Nigeria had reported in June that Mr Eyitayo Jegede appealed the decision of the Court of Appeal that validated the election of Akeredolu in the poll. It was reported

Update: Tension in Jegede, Akeredolu’s camps as Supreme Court fixes 12 noon for decision

    The Supreme Court of Nigeria has fixed 12 noon for its decision on the petition filed against the victory of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the October 10, 2020 governorship election by of Mr Eyitayo Jegede, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Eyitayo Jegede had appealed the decision of the Court of Appeal that validated the election of Akeredolu in the poll. It was reported on July 16, 2021, that the Court of Appeal led by Justice Theresa Orji-Abadua dismissed the petition filed by Jegede while affirming Akeredolu as the

Tension in APC secretariat as Supreme Court decides Jegede’s case against Akeredolu

There is tension at the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the Supreme Court justices are set to make their pronouncements on the subsisting petition over the mandate being exercised by the sitting governor in Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu. Checks revealed that the candidate of the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, Eyitayo Jegede had proceeded to the apex court to challenge Governor Akeredolu declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission as the winner of the October 10, 2020, Ondo State governorship election. The Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital had last June

Breaking: JAMB releases UTME results under investigations

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cleared and released the UTME results of 14,620 candidates that were hitherto under investigation, while withholding the results of 93 other candidates. Dr Fabian Benjamin, the board Head, Media and Publicity, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, on Tuesday, said the results were released, following the consideration and approval of the recommendations of the investigators, by a management meeting held on Tuesday. “You will recall that the board, in its earlier release, stated that it will still review the results of the 2021 UTME exercise and any candidate found wanting

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