Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has advised the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa, Mr Hudu Yunusa-Ari, to prove his innocence in court rather than through a news conference. Chief Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in…
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to sign into an Act, the bill for the South-South Development Commission. PANDEF, the apex socio-political body of the South-South geo-political zone, made the call in a communiqué at the end of an emergency meeting of the Board of Trustees (BOT), held in…
Gov Abba Yusuf of Kano State on Monday swore in Umar Farouk-Ibrahim as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG) in a low-keyed ceremony at the Governor’s office. The event was officiated by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Haruna Isa-Dederi. Ibrahim’s appointment comes after his predecessor, Abdullahi Baffa-Bichi, was relieved of his…
The Supreme Court on Monday reserved judgment in four separate appeals on the raging political leadership tussles in Rivers. Justice Uwani Aba-Aji, who led a five-member panel of justices reserved judgments to a date that would be communicated to parties, after taking arguments from lawyers involved in the matters. The four appeals are the Rivers…
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Monday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Atiku was accompanied on the visit by former Gov. Liyel Imoke of Cross River and Aminu Tambuwal, a former Sokoto State governor. Abubakar and his team were received at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library…
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has said on Monday that he would resign on Feb. 12, so that the parliament did not have to impeach him. Iohannis’s presidential mandate came to an end on Dec. 21, 2024. Since then he has been staying in office until the new head of state is elected, while the election…
Two weeks before Germany’s parliamentary election, the Green Party candidate, Robert Habeck, on Monday rejected accusations of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis. In a video message on social media, Habeck, who is vice chancellor and economy minister, said that an investigation by the University of Hamburg cleared him of scientific misconduct. Allegations of plagiarism are…
The annual salaries of members of the British parliament (MPs) could rise to almost 94,000 pounds ($116,490) per year, after the body in charge of their pay recommended a slightly above-inflation increase. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) made the announcement on Monday that it was proposed to increase MPs’ pay by 2.8per cent in…
Lagos State House of Assembly , on Monday, inaugurated a six-man ad hoc committee to investigate the N24 billion Light-Up Project by the state government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the inauguration of the committee followed the resolution at the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, at the assembly complex…
Ecuador’s presidential poll would proceed to a second round runoff as no candidate seems to be able to win outright after more than 90 per cent of the vote have been counted. With 92.82 per cent of the vote counted so far, Daniel Noboa, the incumbent president and candidate of the National Democratic Action, is…
