Embattled Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has lodge an appeal at the Supreme Court urging the apex court to declare the petitions submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission seeking his recall as illegal. The Senator in an appeal he filed against the March 16, 2018 judgment of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal also urged the apex court to declare the recall process as illegal.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of All Progressives Congress (APC) would take final decision Monday on tenure elongation for national and state executives of the party.

The National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said on Wednesday in Abuja at the end of a three-hour meeting between the governors and the National Working Committee (NWC).

The party had on Tuesday, constituted a 10-member technical committee headed by Gov. Simon Dalung of Plateau to work out the way forward on the tenure issue.

State governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress have finally bowed to pressure on the issue of tenure extension for party officials at all levels. They have now resolved to back President Muhammadu Buhari’s position that such elongation of tenure is illegal.

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Julius Maada Bio on his victory as the new President of Sierra Leone, after the presidential election run-off on March 31. The President commends the people of Sierra Leone on the successful conduct of the presidential election run-off as well as the parliamentary and local council elections held on March 7, 2018.

A prominent Afenifere Chieftain, Ayo Adebanjo has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration as a calamity. The elder statesman said this in his autobiography titled ‘Telling It As It Is,’ which was publicly presented in Lagos on Tuesday. In the book which was read by Professor Wale Adebamwi, the author took a swipe at former President Obasanjo.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the release of $1bn for the procurement of security equipment to assist the prosecution of ongoing war against insurgency in the North East.

The approval was reportedly granted during a closed-door meeting involving the President and all Service Chiefs.