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Afe Babalola wants election tribunal judges separate from regular court
Legal luminary Aare Afe Babalola said sitting judges should not preside over election petitions tribunals. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said judges who preside over election tribunals should be separate from regular court judges to avoid the halt of cases unrelated to elections reports The PUNCH. While speaking at an event on Monday in Ado-Ekiti
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Appoint party loyalists as ministers, APC stalwart urges Tinubu
A stalwart of the All Progressives Congress, Bukie Okangbe, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to consider the appointment of party loyalists who worked for his victory as a priority when appointing his cabinet. This was even as she congratulated Tinubu on his emergence as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African
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Aboru Aboye purely Yoruba language, not for Ifa priests – Tope Alabi
Popular Nigerian gospel singer, Tope Alabi, has reacted to the controversy trailing her viral video where she was heard singing in Yoruba language using the word ‘Aboru Aboye’, a form of greeting among Ifa initiates. In the viral video, Alabi referred to herself as ‘ebo’ literally meaning sacrifice, while also singing the words, “Abiye ni
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Election petition: APC already planning for re-run, says LP
The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Julius Abure on Monday said he got information that the All Progressives Congress was already preparing for a possible re-run of the 2023 presidential election urging members of the party to be alert. Abure said this during an online meeting held with Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and
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Adebutu, others arraigned for alleged vote buying
The Federal Government on Monday arraigned the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 governorship election in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu in absentia for alleged vote buying. Five other persons were arranged alongside Adebutu before an Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta Our correspondent gathered that the All Progressives Congress, through its Ogun
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Lagos records 1,642 fire outbreaks in six months
The Lagos State Fire Service says the state recorded one thousand, six hundred and forty-two (1,642) fire incidents between January and June 2023, with 42 persons killed. Similarly, 177 persons were rescued, while N14.62 billion properties were destroyed. In its mid-year activity report, the Director, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, explained that
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Students no longer believe they can pass without cheating – LUTH psychologist
A Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Dr Charles Umeh, speaks with LARA ADEJORO on how to deal with forgery in the country Is there any psychological issue with forgery? Forgery could be age falsification or
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Businessman tackles bank over N5.9m unauthorised withdrawal
An account holder with the Keystone Bank, Bala Ibrahim, has been finding it difficult to meet his financial needs after an erstwhile manager of a branch of the bank in the Agege area of Lagos State, Tijani Saleh, allegedly made an unauthorised withdrawal of N5.9m from his corporate account. Ibrahim, while speaking with our correspondent,
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Tony Elumelu to join King Charles, Biden at climate forum
The Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, will join King Charles III of the United Kingdom, and United States President, Joe Biden, at the Climate Finance Mobilisation Forum. The forum holding in London would help to attract a new generation of capital to combat climate change. A statement said, in achieving the goals of the
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NLC meets govs over fuel subsidy palliatives
Weeks after the removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu, some state chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress have commenced moves to negotiate with respective state governments on ways to cushion the effects of the removal of subsidy, The PUNCH has learnt. This is as the organised labour at the national level vowed to
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