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9th Senate: Breaking New Grounds Under Ahmed Lawan

December 8, 2019 3:02 am

You may argue that it is early days yet in the life of the 9th Senate of the Federal republic of Nigeria, presided over by Senator Ahmed Lawan and you will not be wrong. Inaugurated on 11, June, 2019, the current session of the upper chamber of the National Assembly is barely six weeks old. Even then, two days after our inauguration, we proceeded on a short recess to enable the leadership and the bureaucracy carry out some housekeeping, especially the allocation of offices to all Senators. We resumed duty on 2 July and were scheduled to embark on …

Atiku’s 66 grounds of appeal against tribunal verdict

September 24, 2019 11:26 am

As exclusively reported by THISDAY on Sunday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the February 23 Presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Monday filed 66 grounds of appeal at the Supreme Court against the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal judgment delivered on September 11, 2019.

The grounds of appeal are as follows: Ground 1 – 10: Ground 1: ERROR IN LAW
The Learned Justices of the Court of Appeal erred in law when they relied on “overall interest of justice” to hold that the 2nd Respondent’s Exhibits R1 to R26, P85 and P86 were properly admitted in …