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SUPEME COURT JUDGMENT:  CHIEF (DR) CHEKWAS OKORIE REACTS TO POLICE PROSECUTION OF APGA NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, CHIEF EDOZIE NJOKU JUDICIAL ABOMINATION AND THE LOUDNESS OF SILENCE Today I have decided to draw the attention of Nigerians to a judicial abomination, a criminal rascality and great travesty being perpetrated through a conspiracy by some staffers of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, some  officers of the Police and the Independent National Electoral Commission.  So great is this travesty that a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Hon. Justice Mary Ukaego Peter-Odili came out of retirement to respond to a letter seeking for the affirmation of a judgment given by a Panel she chaired.  The tragedy is that not one lawyer; senior or junior, has protested the rubbishing of the Supreme Court nor the persecution of an innocent man.  The deafening silence of the Nigerian Bar Association, the Nigerian Labour Congress, the Nigerian Union of Journalists, and Civil Society...

APGA: Edozie Njoku Arraigned Over Alleged Forgery Of Supreme Court Judgement At last, Edozie Njoku who claims to be the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) will be arraigned today before Justice M. A. Madugu of FCT High Court 40 Bwari, Abuja, in criminal Charge No: CR/12/2022. A top APGA chieftain, who would not want to be named at this stage of the matter, confirmed the development to our correspondent in Awka, the Anambra State capital on Monday. Njoku has severally claimed to be the National Chairman of APGA against Dr Victor Oye, who several courts had authenticated as the National Chairman of the party following the party’s convention in that respect. But Njoku had recently paraded a Supreme Court judgement purporting himself as the the rightful National Chairman of the party. To further prove his case, Njoku paraded a document allegedly signed by a retired Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, that he claimed ruled that he was the National Chairman of the ...

 Supreme Court Orders Retrial Of Ogun PDP Guber Suit The crisis rocking the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party deepened on Monday with the Supreme Court dismissing an appeal filed before it on the nomination of the party’s governorship candidate. The Apex Court consequently ordered that the suit instituted by a governorship aspirant, Jimi Lawal, be remitted to the Federal High Court for a fresh trial. Justice Ibrahim Saulawa in a judgment in the appeal of the PDP held that the Federal High Court was wrong in declining jurisdiction in the matter of Jimi Lawal. The Apex Court agreed with the Court of Appeal in Abuja that the FHC had jurisdiction under Section 285 of the 1999 constitution and Section 84 (14) of the Electoral Act 2022 to hear the matter of Lawal on its merit. The Supreme Court therefore ordered the case be remitted to the Chief Judge of the FHC, Justice John Tsoho, in Abuja for determination by another Judge other than Justice Taiwo Taiwo who refused to...

11 DIED OF SUSPECTED FOOD POISONING IN BENUE No fewer than eleven people have died of food poisoning in the Ikobi community in the Apa local government area of Benue State. The incident, according to locals happened last week Monday when the people ate food suspected to have been poisoned. Those who were reported to have lost their lives were identified to include: Adi Ale, Ochefije Ojo, Maria Ojo, Aipu Ochefije, Aboyi Ngbede Ochefije, Mary Ochoyoda and Ehi Abu Others are: Blessing Abu, Peace Ochoyoda, Ojochono Daniel and Favour Edoh. But Police in the State confirmed that twelve people were affected but seven died. The State Command spokesperson, Catherine Anene told our correspondent on the phone on Monday that the incident happened last week Monday. According to the PPRO, a woman had gone to the house of her family members who died of food poison three months ago and cleaned up the house only for her to pack some foodstuffs from the house to her house. The same food was said to have...

GOV ORTOM DISTRIBUTES VEHICLES TO PDP CAMPAIGN TEAM Benue State Governor and Chairman of the PDP Campaign Council in the state, Samuel Ortom has distributed vehicles to the campaign team in the state. The Governor distributed the campaign vehicles Monday, November 21st, 2022 shortly after presiding over the PDP State Campaign Council and Campaign Management Committee strategic meeting held at the new Banquet Hall of the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi. According to the Governor, the vehicles were meant to enhance movement and other logistics for the campaign as the party embarks on intensive campaigns and mobilisations in the state ahead of next year's polls. Governor Ortom had earlier in his brief remarks at the meeting, reaffirmed that the party had no issues in the Benue State and was strategizing on winning the 2023 elections. He said the party in the state will not rest on its oars until it emerges victorious at the 2023 polls. "We want to work very hard with our people and ...

2022 NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL: IMO ATHLETES WILL MAKE US PROUD - GOV. UZODIMMA The Torch of Unity for the 2022 National Sports Festival, which is making its way across the country has arrived in Imo State. While receiving the Torch, the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma expressed confidence in the victory of Imo athletes at the Festival in Delta State. The Governor disclosed that the movement of the Torch of Unity from state to state is an initiative of the Federal Government to unify the Nation through sports after the Civil war. He promised that the Shared Prosperity administration will support the State's sportsmen and women at the festival. The Torch was presented to the Governor by the Nigeria's first Gold Medalist and Imo indigene, Ms. Chioma Ajuwa. More photos below. 

KDSG Security Update: Sunday 20th November 2022.  Air Component of OPWP continues air strikes against bandit enclaves in Kaduna -Some bandits neutralized  The Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch has continued aerial assaults on identified bandit enclaves around Kaduna State over the last week.  According to an operational feedback to the Kaduna State Government, a major enclave south of Kidandan, Giwa LGA, which was confirmed as the hideout of a bandit Alhaji Ganai, was struck and destroyed. The bandit and several others were neutralized in the strike.  The hideout of bandit Ali Kawaje in Birnin Gwari LGA was similarly targeted and destroyed, as well as those of bandits Musa Pajelo and Kachalla Bello. Targets were also engaged and destroyed in Walawa area, Fadaman Kanauta, and Kuduru. Bandits were sighted and neutralized in locations 4km southwest of Alhaji Ishiaka, 6km northeast of Maguzawa, and 2km west of Yelwa.  Several armed bandits were sighted and neut...