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Fraud: Court Jails Yobe Auditor-General Five Years

March 13, (THEWILL) -The Yobe State High Court has sentenced the Auditor General for Local Government, Alhaji Idris Yahaya, to five years imprisonment. Yahaya was jailed on Monday, by Justice Muhammad Lawu Lawan, after he was found guilty of a...

Court Sends Two PDP Chieftains To Prison Over N142m Bribe

March 11, (THEWILL) - A Federal High Court sitting in Bauchi has sentenced two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Saleh Hussaini Gamawa and Aminu Umar Gadiya, to two years imprisonment for offences bordering on...

Electoral Act Did Not Mandate INEC to Transmit Results Electronically – APC-PCC

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC-PCC), on Friday, said the new Electoral Act 2022 (as amended) did not mandate the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to transmit election results electronically. The Council maintained that the Bimodal Voters Accreditation...

Court Restrains INEC From Engaging MC Oluomo To Distribute Election Materials In Lagos

February 24, (THEWILL) - The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Friday, issued an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from contracting Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, to distribute 2023 election...

Court Bars PDP From Suspending, Expelling Governor Ortom

February 16, (THEWILL) - A Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi, has issued an order of interim injunction, restraining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its National Working Committee (NWC), National Executive Committee (NEC) or its National Officers...

Court Remands Auto Dealer IVD Over Wife’s Death

January 31, (THEWILL) - A Lagos Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, ordered the remand of popular auto dealer, Ikechukwu Daryl Ogbonna, aka IVD, over the death of his wife, Abimbola Martins-Ogbonna. Magistrate Adebayo Kafayat Tella made the order following advice by...

Court Dismisses Suit Seeking To Sack Buhari, Stop Presidential Election

January 30, (THEWILL) - A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed a suit seeking to remove President Muhammadu Buhari from office and stop the February 25 presidential election. Presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2019...

Supreme Court Dethrones Obong Of Calabar

January 13, (THEWILL) - Nigeria's apex court, Supreme Court, has dethroned the Obong of Calabar, Édidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V, after years of legal tussle. The judgment followed a suit Numbered, HC/102/2008, filed by a former minister of finance under...

Court Sacks Senator Abbo From 2023 Election

January 10, (THEWILL) - A High Court in Yola, Adamawa State capital, has nullified the nomination of Senator Elisha Abbo, as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Northern Senatorial District of Adamawa state. The Mubi North...

Court Orders INEC To Recognise Kano Labour Party Guber Candidate

January 09, (THEWILL) - A Federal High Court in Kano has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise and publish the names of Bashir Ishaq Bashir and his running mate, Alhaji Auwalu Abdullahi, as the Labour Party’s...
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OPINION: What I Saw at Chatham House vs What Social Media Says

The writer recounts his firsthand experience at Chatham House, challenging social media narratives about the INEC chairman and highlighting the dangers of misinformation, political bias and growing distrust ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 elections.
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