When the presidential election court process began in March 2023, Nigeria’s Supreme Court comprised 13 justices. The court had received a bumper injection of seven new justices in November 2020 after the conclusion of the disputes arising from the presidential election of the cycle. That was the last set of appointments to the Supreme Court. Since then, six justices have …

No fewer than 40,000 ad hoc staff would be deployed by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the November 11, 2023 governorship polls in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states, according to The PUNCH. The tenure of the incumbent Governor of Imo State will end on 14 January 2024, while those of Kogi and Bayelsa states end on 26 January 2024, …

The Chicago State University (CSU), on Thursday, confirmed that President Bola Tinubu attended the institution and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor’s degree. In a statement issued to CBS Broadcasting Inc. (generally referred to as CBS News), one of America’s biggest and most influential news network, the institution pointed out that United States’ federal law, prevents it us from providing …

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed confidence that the Supreme Court would rectify what it considered “errors” in the judgement delivered by the Presidential Election Petitions Court. Last week, the five-member election court struck out the various petitions filed by the PDP and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, against President Bola Tinubu’s victory …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s legal team over its header on the Certified True Copies (CTC) of the Presidential Election Petition Court’s judgement, describing the defence by the legal team as an act of self-indictment. Their response is coming 48 hours after the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar …

The General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya has cautioned clerics who are in the habit of predicting the outcome of elections in the country. Faulting the practice of prophesying election results, Olukoya noted that the pulpit is not meant for politics. According to him, the pulpit is meant for teaching the …

The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Jigawa State, has declared the outcome of the House of Representatives election of the Birnin Kudu/Buji Federal constituency as inconclusive. The chairperson of the tribunal, Justice A. Okeke ordered a re-run election in eight polling units in Birnin Kudu and Buji Local Government Areas within 90 days. The Independent National Electoral Commission …

Former Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has congratulated President Bola Tinubu on the presidential election petition court’s verdict. On Wednesday, the Presidential Election Petition Court dismissed the three petitions brought against the election of President Tinubu. All the five justices on the panel – Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani (chairman), Justice Stephen Adah, Justice Monsurat Bolaji-Yusuf, Justice Moses Ugo and Justice …

The Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT) has dismissed accusations that the certified true copy of the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court contains watermark of the team. Describing the allegation as untrue, unkind, unfair, and unfortunate, the legal team explained that, while it received its copy from the court registry without watermark, it “immediately scanned and water-marked with the …

Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola has predicted that the Supreme Court would affirm President Bola Tinubu’s victory at the 25th February presidential poll, should his opponents take the judgement of the President Election Petition Tribunal to the apex court. At a reception held in his honour by his community in Iragbiji, Osun State on Saturday, following …