The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, sitting at Maitama has granted bail to the suspended Senator for Kogi Central, Mrs.Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, to the tune of N50 million. In a ruling by Justice Chizoba Orji, the court rejected Federal Government’s application that Akpoti-Uduaghan be remanded in prison custody pending the determination of the case against her. She was arraigned …

The suspended senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Friday dismissed the allegation that she violated the court order restraining her from granting interviews or posting anything related to her sexual advances claim against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on social media. Natasha was responding to Akpabio’s fresh suit demanding an apology for her ‘tongue-in-cheek apology’. On 27 April, Akpoti-Uduaghan …

Sorry, I digress. Gradually, the Nigerian presidency is putting finishing touches to its own sculpture of a village liar, Ìbídùn, it is busy carving. Or writing itself into the pathetic biblical story of an early Christian community in Jerusalem which witnessed a lying couple by the name, Ananias and Sapphira. Ìbídùn was the proverbial woman who, determined to make deception …

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has described as ‘baseless, false, and inflammatory’ allegations made against him by Senators Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Elisha Abbo. Akpoti-Uduaghan represents Kogi Central in the current session, while Abbo represented Adamawa North until he judicially lost his seat in October 2023. In a statement on Friday, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Senate President, Mr. …

The Senate, on Tuesday, threw its weight behind its President, Godswill Akpabio, as the Senator representing Kogi Central District, Mrs. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, filed a N100.3 billion defamation lawsuit against the former. The suit was a fallout of the clash between Akpabio and the female Kogi lawmaker last week over the relocation of her seat. In her suit marked CV/737/25, Akpoti-Uduaghan …

The election petition tribunal sitting in Lokoja has declared, Barrister Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the 25th February Kogi Central senatorial election. In his ruling on Wednesday, the tribunal Chairman, Justice Kemakolam Orjiakoin said that Akpoti-Uduaghan scored 54,064 votes to defeat his closest rival Abubakar Sadiku Ohere of the All Progressives Congress, who …