By Adekunle Aliyu with Agency Report Egypt’s embattled President Hosni Mubarak abruptly stepped down as president, ending his 30-year-reign, and Egyptian armed forces will take over the leadership of the country, vice president Omar Suleiman announced today. Crowds gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square erupted into loud cheers, chanting “Egypt is free,” as the historic announcement […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has so far registered 63.9 million Nigerians from the results collated nationwide from the recently concluded voters registration exercise as at yesterday morning.

THE National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, explained why it refrained from okaying moves by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, to elevate the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami to the Supreme Court bench, insisting that doing so would be pre-judicial to a subsisting suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja.

THE Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Delta State, Dr. Gabriel Ada, has accused some politicians for allegedly colluding with some unscrupulous INEC officials to facilitate multiple registration during the voter’s registration exercise in the state.

THE National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, quashed the plan by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu to elevate the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami to the bench of the Supreme Court.