…Courts increasingly determining election outcomes By Chinedu Adonu ENUGU — Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Chief Afam Osigwe, SAN, has said Nigeria is among the countries with the highest number of election petitions, attributing the development to the increasing involvement of the courts in determining electoral outcomes. Osigwe stated this while speaking […]

By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja ABUJA — Nigeria’s petrol imports rose to 20.6 million litres per day (ml/d) in August 2026, even as supply from domestic refineries increased to 29.7ml/d, latest data from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, has shown. The August figures indicated a 4.6 per cent increase in petrol imports […]

…You won’t decide my Senate return bid ABUJA — Senator Ireti Kingibe, representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has told FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, that she cannot be intimidated by insults, threats or political pressure, insisting that no minister is above the law. Kingibe also declared that Wike could not determine whether she would return […]

ABUJA — The legal dispute between former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s United States-based lobbyist, Karl Von Batten, and Nigeria’s Ambassador to South Africa, Femi Fani-Kayode, has escalated, with both sides threatening multimillion-dollar lawsuits in the United States. Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., the lobbying firm engaged by Atiku, said it had been cleared to proceed with a $36 […]

“What is he doing? He has not been to the United Nations for three consecutive years. A reasonable man should say that he is hiding from the United States of America,” Okonkwo said.