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Supreme Court affirms the election of Bala Mohammed of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of Bauchi State in the 2019 general elections. But the atmosphere remained calm in Bauchi on Monday in spite the confirmation of Gov.Bala Mohammed of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) as the duly elected governor of the state by the Supreme Court. People went about their normal businesses, just as there were no incidents of wild celebrations as anticipated. It would be recalled that the State Police Command had prohibited any form of celebration as a precautionary measure to guard against any breach of the…

The Economic and Financial Crimes, EFCC, Maiduguri Zonal Office on Monday, January 20, 2020, arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil better known as “Mama Boko Haram”. She was arraigned alongside Tahir Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyade, before Justice Aisha Kumalia of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on an amended five-count charge, bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money by false pretence and cheating to the tune of N111, 650,000 (One Hundred and Eleven Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). Investigation by the EFCC reveals that, the defendants sometime in 2018 conspired and falsely presented to one Mohammad Umar Mohammed, purported contracts…

MultiChoice Nigeria has announced that its flagship creative shared value (CSV) initiative, MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF), will hold another the New Year with Masterclass. The Masterclass, which holds in Lagos on Wednesday 22 January, will be in Steadicam operations. Speaking on the upcoming masterclass, Femi Odugbemi, MTF Academy Director, West Africa said, Ari de Beer, an international award-winning cameraman, will be at the masterclass to teach participants drawn from various bodies across Nollywood on new techniques of Steadicam operations. Odugbemi, who explained that Ari has been in the camera department of the film and television industry for about forty years,…

The immediate past speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, says he is set to release a three-hour documentary, “exposing Mr Adams Oshiomhole’s dark waters.” But the Oshiomhole camp says the former Edo governor has done no wrong. Speaking in an interview with NAN in Benin on Monday, Adjoto said the documentary would be showed to the public on January 30 in Abuja. Adjoto, who descried Oshiomhole as his long-time political confidant, said the documentary would expose Oshiomhole’s “dirty malfeasance in his days as governor of Edo State. He said that the documentary was part of…

The world’s richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined in 2019, while unpaid or underpaid work by women and girls adds three times more to the global economy each year than the technology industry, Oxfam said on Monday. The Nairobi-headquartered charity said in a report released ahead of the annual World Economic Forum of political and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, that women around the world work 12.5 billion hours combined each day without pay or recognition. In its “Time to Care” report, Oxfam said it estimated that unpaid care work by women added at…

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Sunday said that two bodies had been recovered from the explosion site of a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline at Ile Epo axis of Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, NEMA, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. NAN reports that the raging fire caused panic among the residents of Abule Egba, Ile Epo and Ekoro Road due to the thick smoke which oozed out from the explosion scene. Farinloye said that several buildings and articulated vehicles were…

The Supreme Court, on Monday, affirmed the election of Aminu Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the duly elected governor of Sokoto State in the March 2019 governorship election. The apex court dismissed an appeal of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Ahmed Aliyu, filed to challenge Tambuwal’s re-election. A seven-man panel of justices of the court headed by Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, held that the appellant failed to adduce any credible evidence to prove his petition against the outcome of the governorship election. Supreme Court upholds Ganduje’s election…

The Supreme Court, on Monday, upheld the election of governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State. The apex court, in a unanimous judgement by a seven-man panel of Justices that was led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, dismissed an appeal the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abba Yusuf, filed to challenge the outcome of the last governorship election in the state. Yusuf had in his appeal marked SC/1450/2019, prayed the Supreme Court to set aside the concurrent decision of both the Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal, which affirmed Ganduje’s…

There is anxiety in the northern states of Kano, Sokoto and Bauchi ahead of Monday’s Supreme Court judgement on the 2019 governorship election disputes. In Bauchi State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Mohammed Abubakar, are challenging the declaration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Bala Mohammed as winner. In Kano, candidate of the PDP, Mr. Abba Yusuf, is challenging INEC’s declaration of Abdullahi Ganduje of the APC, while in Sokoto, the APC and its candidate, Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto, are challenging INEC’s declaration of Aminu Tambuwal of the PDP as governor. The Election Petition Tribunal, as…

The Governors of the North Western States say they are ready to copy their Southwest counterparts by launching a security operation to checkmate the growing insecurity in the region including kidnapping and banditry activities. Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina state who is also the chairman of the governors in the Northwest region made the above disclosure on Thursday during a media chat with news correspondents in the state. The Governor further admitted that the North West Governors have a lot to learn from the arrangements by their south west colleagues, adding that he will invite them for a meeting on…