The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, Thursday, declined to disband the fresh panel constituted to resolve dispute over the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja swore in Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).

The special panel of the Appeal Court sitting on the Ondo Peoples Democratic Party’s Governorship candidate tussle has granted the application of Eyitayo Jegede of the Makarfi-led faction of the party to appeal the Justice Okon Abang’s judgement which the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had cited as the bases for substituting Jegede’s name with that of Jimoh Ibrahim of the Sheriff-led faction from the commission’s final list of candidates for the state’s governorship elections.

President Barack Obama hosted a triumphant Donald Trump in the Oval Office Thursday for talks on executing a smooth transition of power and steadying nerves after a vote that shocked the world.

US president-elect Donald Trump on Thursday invited British Prime Minister Theresa May to visit him “as soon as possible” as they held their first conversation since his election, Downing Street said.