Guardians of Democracy and Development; Partners for Legislative Agenda for Nigeria; Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiative; and a coalition of civil society and youth groups in Nigeria have challenged the Senate Deputy President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, to present court papers absolving him of the allegations of perjury.
The coalition, in a statement yesterday by its Convener, Solomon Adodo, said it has also submitted a petition to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the National Security Adviser; and the Chief of Staff to the President, insisting that it would only rest when the right thing is done.
The groups had earlier …
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has called on his players to “step up” and fill the goalscoring void left by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s absence after the forward’s three-match ban was upheld.
The Gabon international, who opened the scoring in Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace, was booked for a tackle on Max Meyer but the video assistant referee upgraded the punishment to a red card.
Arsenal appealed against Aubameyang’s dismissal but the punishment stands.
The former Borussia Dortmund player, 30, has scored 14 of Arsenal’s 29 Premier League goals this season.
“Players have to step up,” Arteta said on Wednesday when asked …
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is preparing a legal counterpunch against new moves by American regulators to bar the company from accessing $8.5 billion in US federal funds for services and equipment, a report said Friday.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week branded Huawei and its Chinese rival ZTE as threats to US national security and blocked them from the fund.
It also proposed that other service providers be required to cancel or replace existing services and equipment from the companies.
Huawei plans to file a lawsuit in the United States next week, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified …
Lagos State lawmakers probing former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode over the purchase of 820 buses as part of the state’s Bus Reform Project said on Wednesday that the suit the ex-governor filed against them lacks merit.
The lawmakers further added that the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the suit.
The lawmakers, represented by Mr Lawal Pedro,SAN, are opposing an injunction Ambode seeks to restrain them from investigating him.
“We have filed a notice of preliminary objection highlighting the incompetence of this suit,” Pedro stated on behalf of the lawmakers. “We are as well challenging the jurisdiction of the court …
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Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday granted leave to a former Senate’s Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to challenge a suit seeking his removal along with 53 others from office.
The suit was instituted on July 2018 by an advocacy body known as Legal Defence and Assistant Project (LEPAD).
The lawmakers, which include Senator President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of …
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to challenge yesterday’s verdict of the Court of Appeal that upheld the election of Mr. Gboyega Oyetola as governor of Osun State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Oyetola, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the election.
But the Election Petition Tribunal nullified Oyetola’s election and declared Senator Ademola Adeleke of the PDP winner of the poll, consequent upon which Oyetola challenged the tribunal’s ruling at the appellate court.
The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, upturned the tribunal’s ruling and affirmed Oyetola’s …
Forty-two political parties on the platform of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) Kano State chapter are set to challenge the re-election of the state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje in court.
Kano State CUPP chairman Muhammad Abdullahi Raji stated this while addressing journalists on the outcome of the rerun election won by Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Southern and Middle belt leaders have thrown their weight behind the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar’s resolve to challenge outcome of the 2019 presidential poll.
They also rejected outcome of the poll, saying Jubril (President Muhammadu Buhari) should bear a huge moral burden of the fraud that was perpetrated in the elections.
The former vice president has challenged the re-election Buhari in court.
He met with the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders on Wednesday in Abuja where he expressed confidence in the ability of judiciary in doing the right thing on the matter.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in
the February 23 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his party on Tuesday in Abuja, commenced legal process challenging the victory of Jubril Al- Sudani being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the polls.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared
President Buhari and his party, APC, winner of the poll, having scored
a total of 15,191,847 as against 11,262,978 by Atiku and the PDP.
The AtikuObi Vanguard Nigeria 2019 has called on the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to challenge INEC’s declaration of Jubril Al-Sudani (being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari ) as winner of the February 23 Presidential election.
