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The Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Olamide Oladiji, told the Court of Appeal that parties had reached a “political solution” to the crisis of leadership rocking the state, hence his withdrawal of the appeal against the Deputy Governor, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The Deputy Governor had dragged the House, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and others to court over moves to remove him from office over alleged acts of gross misconduct. He had secured an interim order from the Federal High Court restraining the Ondo State House of Assembly from initiating impeachment proceedings against him. But, the Assembly, citing lack of jurisdiction, had appealed to set aside the order of the Federal High Court. A High Court in Ilorin has handed down a life imprisonment sentence to the Sarkin Fulani of Kwara, Usman Adamu, along with his brother and an accomplice, Gidaddo Idris, for their involvement in a kidnapping case. The trio were found guilty of conspiring and kidnapping Abubakar Ahmad in 2022. The victim, who spent 20 days in captivity, was released only after the convicts collected a ransom of ₦1 million. Justice Akinpelu, in her judgement, stated that the evidence presented by the prosecution established the collaboration among ...

The Nigerian Army said it had rescued two additional girls ...

The Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to restructure ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said Nigeria could lose ...

Bandits have released 74 children out of more than 80 ...

The National Economic Council (NEC), on Thursday, urged the FG ...

Five Nigerian soldiers died after their vehicle hit a mine ...

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) says as of ...

Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji, last Saturday, neutralised seven terrorists, ...

Eight schoolgirls have escaped from kidnappers in Kaduna State two ...

Electronic payment transactions hit ₦123.8 trillion in the first three ...

Nigeria spent 96.3 percent of revenue on debt servicing in ...

Nigeria’s annual inflation rate rose for the third straight month ...

Commercial banks’ borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ...

Nigerians imported not less than nine items worth ₦18.12 trillion ...

Nigeria is losing at least $10 billion annually due to ...

The United States intelligence community monitored Nigeria’s just-concluded national elections ...

Nigeria's Senate has adopted a report of its committee on ...

Gunmen in Kaduna kidnapped eight secondary school students returning from ...

Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists, on Monday, attacked ...

Armed men in the early hours of Sunday killed one ...

Police in Abuja, on Thursday, dispersed a protest staged by ...

The Department of State Services (DSS), on Wednesday, claimed in ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shifted the outstanding ...