A petition filed by Jimi Agbaje, challenging the election of Akinwunmi Ambode as governor of Lagos State in the April 11, 2015 gubernatorial poll has been struck out an Election Petition Tribunal headed by Rita Ofili Ajumogibia. She upheld the victory of Ambode in the election. Agbaje and Ambode contested in the election under the…
A suit filed by the Federal Government of Nigeria, seeking the extradition of Senator Buruji Kashamu to the United States of America, USA, where he is wanted for drugs related offences, has been dismissed by a Federal High Court in Abuja. The application was filed on behalf of the FG by the immediate past Attorney…
Aproko247 has learnt that two suicide bombers were on Wednesday morning killed by explosives they strapped to their bodies. They were killed before they could reach their final targets at a village in the outskirt of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The incident was the second in three days in the area. It was further…
As part of efforts to cut down the cost of running governance, the Osun State Government has announced a 50 per cent slash in salaries and allowances of political office holders in the state. Osun State has been in the news lately over its inability to pay salaries of workers in the state for seven…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has cleared former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, of charges of corruption leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, in her ruling on Wednesday, discharged and acquitted the former spokesman to ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo of the N100 million money laundering accusation…