ASHENEWS reports that the Sokoto National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, on Friday, dismissed the petition against the election of Abdussamad Dasuki.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
ASHENEWS reports that a German government-funded capacity building programme, the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Competence Centre, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, has donated an Automatic Hydrological Sensors equipment to the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) and Benin-Owena River Basin Development Authority (BORDA) through its affiliate FUTA WASCAL.
The Chairman of the Committee on Senate Services, Sen. Sunday Karimi (APC–Kogi) told newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, that in questioning the senators’ possession of the SUV vehicles, Nigerians should also raise the same questions about Ministers having four official vehicles.
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede has directed the staff of the Commission to declare their assets.
ASHENEWS reports that the Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani has described religious leaders have become “beggars to political leaders.”
ASHENEWS reports that one of Nigeria’s ace lawyer, and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Afe Babalola, has classified politics as the only lucrative business in the country.
ASHENEWS reports that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has dismissed President Bola Tinubu’s claims that he (Atiku) forged his certificates.
When a friend read the list of agriculture-related products among the 43 items that can be imported using the country’s meagre foreign reserves, he quipped, “Nigeria bade farewell to national food security.”
ASHENEWS reports that the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has called for an amendment to the Electoral Act, 2022 that would disallow the President of the country to appoint chairman of the electoral umpire.
ASHENEWS reports that the Nigerian government has threatened that it will adopt the principle of reciprocity in issuing visas to foreigners seeking to enter the country.