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Tribunal summons Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, INEC, others to pre-hearing session on Monday, May 8″

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The Presidential Election Petitions Court PEPC, has issued a pre – hearing session notice to five political parties challenging the election of Ahmed Bola Tinubu as the President -Elect.

According to the notice the pre -hearing will hold on Monday, May 8, 2023 at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. Five petitioners are challenging the election of Ahmed Bola Tinubu and the processes that cumulated into the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC.declaring him as the winner of general election held on Saturday February 25,2023.

The pre – hearing session notices were served on the All Progressives Congress APC, and it’s presidential candidate Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the People Democratic Party PDP, and Atiku Abubakar it’s Presidential candidate, as well as the Labour Party LP, and it’s presidential candidate Peter Obi.

Also served with the pre – hearing session notices are Allied Peoples Movement, APM, Action Alliance, AA, and Action People Party,APP. and their presidential candidates who had filed petitions challenging the election.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, whose act during the election is being challenged at the PEPC was also served with the pre- hearing session notice.

An official of the PEPC and members of legal teams of the petitioners as well as
the National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, Ahmad El-Marzuq, have all confirmed the date for the pre-hearing session.

Judging from previous election petition tribunals hearings, the pre- hearing session of the petitions would enable both the petitioners and the respondents identify the processes they have filed and the responses they have received.

It will also enable any of the litigants raise objection if any member of the panel is not qualify to hear the petition as the identities of members serving on the panel would be unveiled on Monday at the pre-hearing session.

The Presidential Election Petition Court will also at pre- hearing session obtain consent of the parties and fix time table for hearing of the petitions and the preliminary objections . But with the limited time available for hearing of the petitions the panel is likely to hear both the petitions and objections together at same time and reserve ruling to a later date.

The five political parties whose petitions are up for hearing had filed the petitions after the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, on March 1, 2023 declared Tinubu the president-elect on the grounds that his party scored the majority of votes cast in the polls.

He had said that the former Lagos state governor polled 8.8 million to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party who scored 6.9mn, while Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third with 6.1mn among 15 others.

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Wizkid’s Disc Jockey, DJ Tunez’s Laptop Stolen in Maimi

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DJ Tunez has lost his laptop in Maimi. According to the official disc jockey of afrobeats star, Wizkid, he said he lost his laptop bag at the Afronation Festival in Maimi, United States, during the weekend. He said the laptop bag contained his working laptop and pleaded with whoever is in possession of it to return it to him. Tunez disclosed this via his Instastory recently. He promised a cash reward to anyone that finds it. He wrote, “I lost my laptop bag in Maimi please if anyone finds it contact me!Cash reward!“My Starboy DJ laptop ooo.”

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I Didn’t See It Coming – Keyamo Reacts to National Honour

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Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has reacted after President Muhammadu Buhari conferred a National Honour, Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON, on him. Reacting on Sunday, Keyamo said he was conferred along with other “deserving and distinguished Nigerians”, saying he was number 15 in the list. Keyamo thanked and prayed for Buhari, asking God to honour the president as he did to others. The statement reads, “I was very delighted to wake up this morning to the news of the conferment on my humble self of one of the highest National Honours of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) (No. 15 on the list).“I had no single inkling this was coming and for this I am grateful to the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.“His style is to give honours and privileges to those deserving of them and not those who lobby for them. Thank you, Mr. President and may God Almighty continue to honour you even as you have honoured others”.

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President Buhari Confers Citizenship On 385 Foreigners

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Nigeria’s Commander-in-Chief, President Muhammadu Buhari has conferred citizenship on 385 foreign nationals, The Nation reports.He declared them worthy Nigerians after meeting all necessary conditions. The conferment was conducted on behalf of the President by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at Gen Abdulraman Danbazzau Conference Hall, Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Headquarters, Abuja. Buhari said his administration gave citizenship to more foreigners than any administration so far, asserting that the gesture was to encourage foreign investment and boost the nation’s economy. He described those conferred the citizenship as worthy of the honour, saying they have contributed in various fields of human endeavours to the development of the country.The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said those conferred with the citizenship met the stringent conditions attached to it, and called for the review of the Nigerian Constitution to allow more foreign nationals apply for citizenship. He said in Europe and United States, foreigners who had lived there could apply for citizenship after 5 years, but wondered why in Nigeria foreigners would have to wait for 15 years before they could apply for Nigeria citizenship. He however commended Buhari for initiating policies that make application for citizenship attractive to foreign nationals, saying from the records a total of 671 have been conferred with Nigeria citizenship within the past five years. Aregbesola said: ”That we have a high number of foreigners willing to become Nigerians is an indication that the on-going efforts of the Federal Government to make Nigeria a destination for investment and peaceful coexistence is beginning to yield good fruits.“I must state also that it is under our administration that the largest number of foreigners have been naturalised. “Between 2011 and 2013,a total of 266 foreigners became Nigerians. In 2017, 335 people took up Nigerian citizenship. But last year, 286 foreigners and today at this ceremony, 385, making a total of 671 have acquired Nigerian citizenship.“I am still not pleased with this figure. In Europe and America, thousands of foreigners are inducted into citizenship every year. They do this to attract youths and people in their prime who would like to contribute to the development of their countries.“The bane of the smooth pathway to Nigerian citizenship however is the constitutional requirement of continuous residency in Nigeria for 15 years.” This is a huge disincentive, considering that in the United States and most European countries, it is five years. Some of these countries have made a habit of snatching young and resourceful brains – who after four years of schooling and working for just one year – through easy pathways, to obtain quality migration to their countries.” I will therefore urge the relevant institutions of state to reconsider this in the next effort at amendment to the constitution. We ought to have easier pathways to citizenship for foreigners than currently obtains.”

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