Presidential ambition: Emefiele withdraws suit against INEC, AGF

Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Monday, withdrew the suit he filed against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Attorney-General of the Federation over his presidential ambition.Emefiele, through his counsel, S.T. Maliki, told Justice Ahmed Mohammed that a notice of discontinuance had been filed and served on the defendants in the matter. The development occurred shortly after the matter was called. Maliki, who held the brief of Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, said though the matter was scheduled for mention, they had Emefiele’s instruction to withdraw the suit.“Pursuant to the instruction of the plaintiff (Emefiele),

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36 Govs lose suit against financial autonomy for local governments

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed a suit that Governors of the 36 States of the Federation, filed to query the constitutionality of regulations the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, issued to guarantee financial autonomy for local governments. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the suit lacked merit. It held that the regulations which came to effect on June 1, 2019, was aimed to ensure that funds meant for local governments are paid directly to them, rather than through a joint account controlled by governors. Besides, Justice Ekwo

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2023 PRESIDENCY: 7 parties join forces with LP against APC, PDP

ADC, PRP, NNPP, SDP, APM to contest on banner LP Jega, Utomi, Dansadau, others to lead coalition of Allied Parties Utomi urges mind shift in readiness for post APC/PDP Nigeria By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor AFTER 15 months of discussion and engagements, six parties, on the banner of Allied political parties, and the National Consultative Front, NCFront, the umbrella body of the Third Force Movement, have agreed to join forces with the Labour Party, LP, to present a joint presidential and other candidates for the 2023 polls. This adoption of the Labour Party was made possible by the new rapprochement between

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One dies, DPO attacked in Gombe Assembly PDP primaries

A youth was reportedly killed on Sunday, in Billiri Local Government Area of Gombe State, while the Divisional Police Officer of the area was injured by warring supporters of opposing camps in the Peoples Democratic Party primary election for Billiri/Balanga Federal Constituency. Confirming the incident, the Gombe State Police Commissioner, Ishola Babaita, debunked the killing during the primary election, adding that it had nothing to do with the voting process. Babaita said, “the killing had nothing to do with the primary election as it was far away from the scene of the primary election.” However, Ali Isa has been declared

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Nigeria loses N2.2tn revenue to crude production delays –Report

Nigeria lost a whopping N2.1 trillion as a result of crude oil production deferment in one year. The 2021 statistics, obtained by The PUNCH on Sunday from the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, said the huge loss was recorded in 2020. The revelation comes on the heels of perpetual low crude oil production being recorded by the country in the past two years. Deferment is the reduction in production or injection availability caused by an activity, breakdown, trip, poor equipment performance, or sub-optimum operations, resulting in a reduction in the volume sold or injected, delaying the production or injection until a later

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Why I’ll never support APC, PDP – Comedian Mr Macaroni

Popular comedian and activist, Debo Adedayo, popularly known as Mr Macaroni, has stated that he would never support the ruling All Progressives Congress and its opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party. The activist, who noted that everyone has the right to support any party they wish to, added that he’d rather join another party and hope that the party becomes “a force”. In a series of tweets on Monday, Mr Macaroni noted that things cannot change in the country if Nigerians keep “recycling” leaders from the APC and PDP. He wrote, “Everyone has the right to support any party they wish

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FG makes health insurance compulsory for employers

The Federal Government has mandated all employers and employees in public, private, and informal sectors to have access to health insurance, The PUNCH reports. This development came when the Federal Government noted that only states with established health insurance schemes and contributory schemes would benefit from the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund. The PUNCH reports that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), signed the National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2021 last week. The newly signed law by the President repeals the National Health Insurance Scheme Act 2004. Under the previous Act, states were required to pay a 50 percent counterpart fund to access

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INEC voter registration stalls at 29% one month to deadline

The plan of the Independent National Electoral Commission to register at least 20 million Nigerian voters before the end of June seems unlikely to come to fruition as only 5.8 million people representing 29 percent of INEC’s target have actually registered. According to INEC, as of May 16, 9,238,991 fresh registrants had registered online but of this figure, only 5,845,751 had completed the physical registration process. The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, had said last year that the commission was expected to register 20 million Nigerians before July this year. The intended target was mostly youths who had crossed the

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Reps summon water resources minister as agency auctions N2bn assets for N13.6m

The Office of the Auditor General for the Federation has queried the management of the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority for selling off government plant, property and equipment valued at over N2bn at a paltry sum of N13.618m.   The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts has consequently summoned the Minister of Water Resources and the Permanent Secretary of the ministry to explain the auction. The committee had on Friday grilled the Managing Director of OORBDA, Olufemi Odumosu. At the investigative hearing, Odumosu justified the disposal, telling the committee that the PPE were sold off by the auctioneers appointed

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Crises rock Rivers, Oyo, Benue APC over gov primaries

Process skewed in Rivers, no delegates’ election in Benue – Factional leaders • Adelabu, Folarin factions produce two delegates’ lists in Oyo, await NWC’s verdict The All Progressives Congress chapters in states including Rivers, Benue, Oyo and Sokoto are currently facing crises arising from last week’s election of delegates for governorship primaries holding on Thursday. Factional leaders and aspirants in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Sunday alleged that elections were not held rather delegates were hand-picked by rival groups.The APC initially scheduled its governorship primaries for Friday, but on Thursday it shifted it to May 26 following its failure

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