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S’Court Fixes Tomorrow on  ADC Leadership Dispute The Supreme Court has fixed Thursday, April 30, for judgment in the leadership dispute rocking the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC). The apex court had reserved judgement in the case, prompting the opposition party to petition the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) that time was not on its side. However, on Wednesday, the apex court announced that the judgement would be delivered by 2pm, on Thursday. A five-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice Mohammed Garba, fixed the matter for judgment after parties adopted their final written addresses. Mark, who leads…

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The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved President Bola Tinubu’s request to secure a $516.33m loan from Deutsche Bank to finance Section I of the ambitious Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway project, a key infrastructure initiative under the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda. The approval followed the consideration of the President’s request by the Committee of Supply during plenary presided over by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas. In a letter read on the floor of the Green Chamber, Tinubu described the Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway as a transformative national project aimed at connecting Nigeria’s far northwest to its southwestern coastline through an approximately 1,000-kilometre dual carriageway…

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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has decried the diversion of students’ fees and other financial infractions in Nigerian universities, warning that such practices undermine the integrity of the education system. A statement by the commission’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale, said Olukoyede spoke in Kano on Tuesday while delivering a keynote address at the 8th Biennial Conference of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities in Nigeria. He said investigations by the EFCC had uncovered cases involving inflated contracts, ghost workers and diversion of students’ fees in tertiary institutions across the country. “The EFCC has investigated…

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The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is currently holding a closed-door meeting with the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde. The meeting is taking place at the Oyo State Government House. Obi was accompanied to the meeting by some Igbo elders, African Democratic Congress, ADC, senators from the South-East, and his political associates. Although he is yet to address the press, the meeting may not be unconnected to his presidential ambition. This is coming barely 24 hours after the former governor of Anambra State met with ex-Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan. Obi has been consulting leaders across the…

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