A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed an application filed by the Department of State Services, DSS, seeking an order to extend the detention of the embattled Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele.According to Channels Television, the request was discreetly filed by the DSS’s legal team on Wednesday based on an alleged new evidence it had obtained.The application was dismissed by Justice Hamza Muazu who cited an abuse of c...

Yinusa Tanko, a prominent figure within the Labour Party and chief spokesperson for the Obi-Datti campaign organization, has voiced his concerns. Speaking in an interview with ChannelsTV, Tanko lamented that the current crisis could have been averted had the party's leadership heeded the counsel of Peter Obi, their presidential candidate in the 2023 elections.Tanko emphasized that the recently concluded national convention, which reinstated Julius Abure as the natio...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has told the presidential election petition court to throw out an application filed by the Labour Party, LP, and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, seeking to have the proceedings televised.Levy Ozoukwu, counsel to Obi and LP, told journalists after the pre-hearing session on Wednesday that INEC opposed their application for a live broadcast.Ozoukwu said, “Surprisingly, INEC is objecting.“A public institution...