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3 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Wale Akinselure |Deborah Musa
Prominent economist Prof. Pat Utomi has expressed frustration over what he described as the government’s continued attempts to “shut his voice.”Utomi spoke with The PUNCH on Wednesday following a fresh application filed by the Department of State Services at the Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking to restrain him from making public comments or staging rallies linked to the proposed formation of a shadow government.
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1 month ago | 
punchng.com | Solomon Odeniyi |Deborah Musa
A group of lawyers have strongly condemned the arrest and continued detention of social campaigner and activist Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan. VDM was purportedly arrested by agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission shortly after visiting a Guaranty Trust Bank branch in Abuja on Friday. He was accompanied by his friend, Stephen Avuara, and his mother.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Deborah Musa |Dirisu Yakubu |Dennis Naku |Dele Ogunyemi
•Fagbemi drafts S’Court response, PDP berates President, Ibas, Tompolo hints at Fubara’s returnThe Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has sprung into action and commenced drafting the response of President Bola Tinubu to the People’s Democratic Party’s governors’ suit challenging the declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Deborah Musa |Adeyinka Adedipe |Solomon Odeniyi
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party at last year’s election in Edo State, Asue Ighodalo, says he will appeal the judgment of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, which affirmed Governor Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress the winner of the September 21, 2024 poll.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Adeyinka Adedipe |Deborah Musa
The All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, on Tuesday, dismissed as fake the copies of the purported judgment of the Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal that flooded the internet on Tuesday. APC Publicity Director, Bala Ibrahim, who is confident that the ruling party will win today’s judgment, claimed that the PDP leaked a fake judgment, knowing they would lose.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Gift Habib |Deborah Musa |Gbenga Odogun |Godwin Isenyo
Tensions ran high on Tuesday during the hearing of a sexual harassment petition filed by Kogi Central lawmaker, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as the members of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Petitions engaged in a heated exchange with former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Tukur Muntari |Deborah Musa
Emir Sanusi II and the dethroned Ado Bayero The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday set aside actions previously delivered against the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano. Subsequently, the appellate court, upon acknowledging the transmission of the case record to the Supreme Court, directed all interested parties to exercise caution, pending the hearing of their appeals at the apex court.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Deborah Musa |Bankole Taiwo
Sole Administrator for Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-ete Ibas (retd.) A legal practitioner, Johnmary Jideobi, has filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding the removal of Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas (retd.) as the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, following President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in the state.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Deborah Musa
There is confusion in the Peoples Democratic Party as the National Working Committee insists that Sunday Ude-Okoye is the National Secretary of the party despite the Supreme Court judgment on Friday which appears to have reinstated a factional leader, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, as secretary. The PDP has experienced internal struggles both before and after the 2023 elections, leading to instability and divisions within the party.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Bankole Taiwo |Deborah Musa |Peter Ajayi Dada
•Presidency lampoons OBJ for warning Tinubu govt may dwarf Buhari’s ‘fraud’ indexFormer President Olusegun Obasanjo has launched a scathing critique of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, declaring it the worst in Nigeria’s democratic history. Obasanjo, however, said the current government of President Bola Tinubu appears to be following the same path of misgovernance and corruption and may surpass Buhari’s record.
