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The Court of Appeal Abuja has sacked the lawmaker representing Adamawa North, Senator Elisha Abbo. Delivering judgement, the three-member panel presided over by Justice C.E. Nwosu-Iheme, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a Certificate of Return to Amos Yohanna as the duly elected senator representing the senatorial district in the National Assembly. The appellate court vacated the tribunal judgement which …

The late rapper, singer, songwriter, ‘Mohbad’ Nigerian street hop singer and former rapper under Naira Marley’s Marlian Music record label, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad is dead. Mohbad died in the early hours of today, Tuesday, September 12, 2023. According to PulseNG, the rapper sadly passed away from an ear infection. Sources from the singer’s team told the …

Following the motion moved by a former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, on the floor of the Senate on July 5, 2023, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is set to embark on a visit to victims and communities ravaged by flood in Remo and Ijebu areas of Ogun East Senatorial District. The tour starts from Ijebu-Ode on …

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) on Monday confirmed the death of a set of conjoined twins delivered by doctors at the facility last week. The LASUTH Chief Medical Director, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, who confirmed the news to journalists in Lagos, however, said the twins’ mother was doing well. The hospital’s management had announced that the twins were delivered …

A Lagos-based medical doctor, Olufemi Olaleye, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling his wife’s niece has filed a suit asking the Court of Appeal to quash his conviction by the lower court. Olaleye, the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, who was convicted and given a life jail term by Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexual …

The Bauchi State police command has dismissed claims that the slain 500-level student of Geology at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Joseph Agabaidu, was attacked by suspected armed robbers. Agabaidu died in a hospital at about 7.00 p.m. on Saturday after he was fatally wounded by unknown persons in Yelwa area of the state. However, the state’s Commissioner of …

Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, has claimed that the results of the elections in 2023 showed that Nigerians were fed up with the All Progressives Congress (APC) which is currently in power. This was mentioned by Bakare, an APC candidate for president in 2022, on Sunday during a State of the Nation broadcast …

  A renowned human right activist and foreign-trained lawyer, Mr. Manfred Ekpe, has asked Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Umo Eno, to come clean on the Presidential Election Tribunal judgement delivered on September 6, 2023. This is just as he challenged the governor to openly congratulate President Bola Tinubu if he wants to redeem himself from the accusation. But, in …

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Police Affairs, Dr. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, has lauded the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for putting their lives, welfare, and livelihood at stake to protect the citizens, stating that members of the Force deserved the best applause in the country. The ministry’s Deputy Director, Press, Bolaji O. Kazeem, who made this known in a press statement, on …

Just recently the delegates at the Fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5), in Bonn, Germany, adopted a global framework for a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste. HELEN OJI reports. The framework is based around 28 targets that aim to improve the sound management of chemicals and waste. Governments have committed to create the regulatory environment to reduce chemical …