A petition filed by James Faleke against the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, at the state’s election tribunal, has been thrown out. While delivering the judgment on Monday, June 6, 2016, the tribunal held that Falake has no locus stand to file any petition against the election of Bello as governor and therefore dismissed…
Election of Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has been upheld by the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ikeja. The Tribunal ruled on Friday that Gbajabiamila’s victory at the March 28 poll was valid. Gbajabiamila contested in the Surulere Federal Constituency I election in Lagos under the platform of the…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed the suit filed against one of the key suspects docked for the bomb blast that occurred at a bus station near Abuja in April 2014. The suspect, Aminu Ogwuche, son of a retired military officer in Nigeria, was extradited to Nigeria from Sudan by Interpol…