Nigeria and African news

Former governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-Rufai, has alleged that there is widespread corruption in the Nigerian judiciary. The former governor spoke  on Monday at the Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Bwari branch in Abuja. According to him,  the public no longer trusts the judiciary due to “delayed justice and biased rulings”….

Two clergy men- Evangelist Nuhu Bakwa and his pastor friend, abducted on Monday by gunmen in Bisichi, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau state, have been freed by their abductors. It was learnt that the two victims were released Thursday night after their relatives paid an undisclosed amount as ransom. The abductors were said…

The New Nigerian Peoples’ Party (NNPP) is to appeal the judgment of the Kano governorship election petition tribunal that sacked Abba Yusuf as governor. Bashir Yusuf Muhammad, counsel to the NNPP, disclosed this in an interview with journalists shortly after the tribunal delivered its judgement on Wednesday via Zoom. The tribunal declared Nasiru Gawuna of…

Several people were reported to have sustained injuries in Sabon Gida, headquarters of Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau state, following alleged assault on Laven Ubandoma, the immediate pass council chairman by his successor, Vincent Venman. The incident was said to have occurred during the annual “Resettlement Day celebration”and fundraising. Venman, who was recently…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja will on Thursday deliver judgment in the appeal by Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state, seeking to set aside the tribunal judgment that nullified his election. The tribunal had in its judgment delivered on  October 2, declared David Ombugadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner…