Today's Headlines: Akeredolu Resumes Official Duties, Says He Will Complete Tenure, Tribunal Returns Gabriel Suswam To Senate
Akeredolu Resumes Official Duties, Says He Will Complete Tenure
Source: The Nation
Ondo Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has resumed official duties 24 hours after he returned from three-month medical vacation.
Governor Akeredolu met with key stakeholders in Ondo State at his residence in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, where he landed.
Those he met with included members of the House of Assembly, led by Speaker Oladiji Olamide; members of the State Executive Council led by the Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa; National Assembly members led by Senator Jide Ipinsagba and Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) State Working Committee, led by the Chairman, Engr. Ade Adetimehin.
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Tribunal Returns Gabriel Suswam To Senate
Source: Daily Trust
The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State has declared Senator Gabriel Suswam of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the February 25 election for Benue Northeast senatorial district.
Our correspondent reports that the tribunal judgement which held for over three hours sacked the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Emmanuel Udende from the upper chambers of the National Assembly.
Suswam, a member of the 9th senate, had lost his bid to return to the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
But he had headed for the court, arguing that Udende did not score majority of the lawful votes cast in the 25th February, 2023, Benue North East Senatorial District election.
Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Ory Zik-Ikeorha and another member, ruled in the favour of Suswam and PDP.
Tribunal sacks Enugu Rep, declares PDP candidate winner
Source: Punch paper
The National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Enugu has nullified the election of the Labour Party’s candidate, Professor Sunday Nnamchi as the House of Representatives member for the Enugu East/Isi-Uzo Federal Constituency in Enugu State.
Delivering judgement in the petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Cornelius Nnaji, the three-man panel of justices led by A. M. Abubakar, declared the petitioner as the duly elected candidate of the election conducted on February 25, 2023.
Prince Nnaji, a one-term federal lawmaker, had challenged the declaration of Nnamchi by the Independent National Electoral Commission as the winner of the election, noting that the respondent was not duly sponsored and qualified to contest under the candidacy of the Labour Party.
Burkina Arrests Three Soldiers Over ‘Plot’ Against Regime
Source: Channels TV
Three soldiers in Burkina Faso have been arrested and charged with plotting against the ruling junta, the country’s military prosecutor said on Friday.
Investigators last month received a tipoff about “soldiers and former soldiers working in intelligence” who were scouting out the homes and other locations used by key figures in the junta, including strongman Captain Ibrahim Traore, he said in a statement.
Their goal was to “destabilise… the transition”, it said, referring to a term used to describe interim military rule before promised elections.
Investigations led to the arrest of the three, who have been ordered detained by an examining magistrate.
They have been charged with involvement in a “military plot, breach of military orders, plotting against state security, criminal association and endangerment”, military prosecutor Major Alphonse Zorma said in the statement.
Nigeria Is A Huge Market, Elumelu Woos Indian investors
Source: Vanguard paper
The Chairman of Heirs Holdings Group, Tony Elumelu, has urged the Indian private sector to invest in Nigeria because it poses a huge market on the African continent.
Elumelu told the Indian investors to seize the opportunity to invest in Nigeria because this is the best time.
He made this statement during the Nigeria-India Presidential Roundtable and Conference on Wednesday, in New Delhi, India.
The roundtable was jointly organised by the High Commission of Nigeria to India, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Nigeria-India Business Council (NIBC).
Elumelu, who has built pan-African financial service businesses and controls significant power and natural resources operations, all focused on value creation in Africa, was in Delhi for the G20 Summit.
He was in the company of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as an invitee and as well as a co-chair of the Business 20 (B20) Action Council focusing on African economic integration, the private sector counterpart to the G20.
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