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The Edo State Chief Judge is yet to set up the local government election tribunal in line with section 78 of the Edo State Local Government Election Law, 2012, 11 days after the polls.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/11-days-after-edo-chief-judge-yet-to-empanel-lg-petitions-tribunal/

A Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri has convicted and sentenced of one Bukar Muhammad over N44million fraud.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/court-jails-2-for-n44m-fraud-in-maiduguri/

United Bank for Africa, UBA, Plc, has delivered an outstanding performance for the half year ended June 30, 2023, as announced in its audited financial report.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/uba-records-profit-before-tax-of-n404-billion/

Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri, for the November 11, poll, has mocked the ongoing employment process initiated by Governor Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, few days to the poll.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/balaysa-lp-gov-candidate-eradiri-mocks-diri-jobs-close-to-poll/

Delta State government has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, led Federal Government was ignoring federal roads in South South in attempt to make the government and the governors of the region unpopular.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/fg-ignored-ssouth-federal-roads-to-make-regions-govts-unpopular/

Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has described as a hoax, purported arrest of 80 IPOB, Eastern Security Network, ESN, by Nigerian military.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/purported-arrest-of-80-ipob-esn-by-nigeria-military-a-hoax-ipob/

A House of Representatives, Mr. Francis Waive, member representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South, and Udu Federal Constituency of Delta State, has said that the grounds for the nullification of his election by the election tribunal were not known to Nigeria law.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/delta-tribunal-apc-reps-waive-heads-to-acourt-rejects-judgment/

The foremost indigenous accounting icon Pa Akintola Williams is dead.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/doyen-of-accounting-pa-akintola-williams-dies-aged-104/

Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has mourned the passing of Mariam Abubakar, former state Commissioner for Budget.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/shaibu-mourns-mariam-abubakar-former-budget-commissioner/

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, operatives, have intercepted consignments of skunk concealed in tins of tomato paste and methamphetamine hidden in used clothes, meant for export to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/meth-skunk-consignments-hidden-in-tomato-pastes-seized-at-airport-ndlea/

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked the 36 state governors in the country to disclose details on spending of the N2 billion palliative recently disbursed to each state by the Federal Government.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/disclose-in-7-days-details-n2bn-palliative-spending-serap-tells-36-govs/

Senator Joel-Onowakpo Thomas representing Delta South senatorial district, has said he would appeal the judgment of the National Assembly Petition Tribunal in Asaba, Delta, which declared his election as inconclusive.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/sen-joel-onowakpo-to-appeal-tribunals-rerun-judgment/

Activist and lawyer, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, on Wednesday, called for the unbundling Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to make it more independent, non-partisan and effective.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/pepc-verdict-on-presidential-election-reason-for-sober-reflection-adegboruwa-san/

Labour Party, LP, Wednesday, said the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court upholding the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the February 25, 2023, election, did not serve the interest of justice.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/pepc-judgment-did-not-serve-justice-labour-party/

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has said the Federal Government lacks the capacity to effectively manage itself and cannot be trusted to fix federal roads in the state.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/fg-lacks-capacity-to-fix-federal-roads-gov-obaseki/

The Edo State Government has pledged support for residents of riverine communities in the state, noting that it has put in place adequate plans to provide relief to residents.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/flooding-edo-govt-assures-riverine-communities-of-support/

President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr. Joe Ajaero, has hailed Nigerians for the massive support and efforts in ensuring that the first day warning strike called by the congress was successful nationwide.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/ajaero-salutes-nigerians-for-compliance-with-warning-strike/

An Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, on Monday, convicted and sentenced four internet fraudsters to prison for fraud.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/edo-court-jails-19-year-old-3-others-for-internet-fraud/

A Federal High Court in sitting in Lagos has restrained four Directors of Duport Midstream Company from holding or convening a meeting of the Board of Directors of the company pending the hearing of a Motion on Notice filed before the court.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/court-orders-duport-midstream-directors-not-to-hold-board-meeting/

Presidential candidates of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku, in the February 25, poll, that of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi and that of Allied Peoples Movement, APM, will know their fate on Wednesday.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/presidential-poll-obi-atiku-apm-know-fate-wednesday/

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of 11 cybercriminals to various jail terms.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/11-convicted-by-court-for-internet-fraud-in-ogun-oyo/

FBN Holdings Plc has asked a Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, to nullify an ex-parte order granting by a Federal High Court, Lagos, which stopped the bank’s Annual General Meeting, AGM.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/first-bank-asks-appeal-court-to-nullify-ex-parte-order-stopping-agm/

Labour Party, LP, has rejected the local government elections result announced by Edo State Independent Electoral Commission, EDSIEC, for the September 2, exercise.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/lp-rejects-edo-lg-polls-result-announced-by-edsiec/

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Operatives, have seized various quantities of ephedrine, skunk and nitrous oxide, popularly known as laughing gas concealed in semovita packs and dry pepper being shipped to South Africa and Kenya through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/ndlea-seizes-ephedrine-skunk-laughing-gas-consignments-at-lagos-airport/

A prominent traditional ruler in Osun State, Aragbiji of Iragbiji, Oba Abdur-Rasheed Odundun IV has described the Osun ex-governor, Adegboyega Oyetola’s Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy as signifying economic prosperity for Nigeria.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/oyetolas-ministry-will-boost-nigerias-economy-osun-monarch/

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu over “the unlawful ban and withdrawal of the accreditations of 25 journalists and media houses from covering the Aso Rock Presidential Villa.”

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/serap-sues-tinubu-over-ban-of-25-journalists-from-covering-villa/

The Delta State government on Thursday, denied online news report, which it described a fake, that the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, has sacked Governor Sheriff Oborevwori based on the petition by Labour Party and its governorship candidate, Ken Pela.

read more :https://frontiernewsng.com/its-fake-news-that-court-sacked-oborevwori-delta-govt/

The Kwara State Palliative Committee inaugurated by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday flagged off the distribution of rice palliatives to residents of the state.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/kwara-govt-flags-off-distribution-of-fgs-palliatives/

The head of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has condemned what he described as an attempted coup in Gabon.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/african-union-kicks-as-soldiers-topple-bongo-govt-in-gabon-coup/

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted an interim order of Mareva Injunction restraining Duport Midstream Company Limited, Platform Capital Investment Partners Limited and their Managing Director, Akintoye Akindele from accessing N1.379billion or its equivalent in any currency in 24 banks pending the determination of a motion on notice by Union Bank.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/court-stops-duport-midstream-another-from-accessing-n1-37b-in-24-banks/