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Acting CJN Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed with Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari after swearing-in in Abuja Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen and swore-in Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed as the acting CJN. Onnoghen is currently facing trial over refusal to declare some of his assets in breach of the provision of the Code of Conduct Bureau Act. However, here are quick facts about the acting CJN Ibrahim Mohammed: Until his appointment as acting CJN, Mohammed was a justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He was formerly a justice of the Nigerian Court of Appeal Justice Tanko was born on December 31, 1953, at Doguwa-Giade, a local government area in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria He attended Government Secondary School, Azare where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1973 before he later proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University where he received a bachelor’s degree in Law in 1980. He l...

Hon. Obatunde Oladapo is a philanthropist, humanitarian, builder of men, effective public servant and profound contributor to the much anticipated renaissance of a better Ido Local Government State Constituency and Oyo State at large with hope and spanning equal opportunities for all. For want to a proper word, I would say without equivocation that Hon. Obatunde Oladapo is pure gold. He is as straight as a pin. Hon. Obatunde Oladapo is unyielding on truth, integrity, transparency, accountability and fulfillment of promises but quite mobile in achievements, he is an A rated political pioneer, standing as a living Angel to the solution of Ido State Constituency of Oyo State, some say, a living monument of never-seen-before greatness of a better Ido State Constituency of Oyo State.  He is wholesome. Once in a generation a superb being walks the earth, confirming the possibility of greatness and the solution to Ido State Constituency of Oyo State, especially to those w...

Court affirms Zamfara APC primaries, asks INEC to accept candidates A high court in Gusau presided over by justice Muhammad Bello Shinkafi on Friday affirmed that the ruling All Progressive Congress in Zamfara state had conducted primaries elections on 3rd and 7th October 2018. The court also asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept the primaries for the APC’s governorship, senatorial, house of representatives and state Assembly seats. The National Secretariat of the All Progressive Congress was also barred from replacing the names of those who won the primary elections of the party on 7th October 2018. In case with a suit number ZMS/GS/52/2018, Sanusi Liman Dan Alhaji and 37 others vs APC and 143, the plaintiffs had asked the court to compel the All Progressive Congress and the Independent National Electoral Commission accept the results of the party’s primaries election in the state conducted on the 7th of October 2018 among others. ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a former Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) Administrative Secretary in Kwara State, Christian Nwosu and a former INEC official Mr. Tijani Bashir, to seven years imprisonment. Both men were sentenced for allegedly accepting N264m bribe offered by former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, to compromise the 2015 elections.   The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday convicted both men after finding them guilty.