In the wake of the governor’s challenge on November 8, 2025, governor Chukwuma Soludo said he sees no qualified opponent in the state’s election.
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), argued that the state’s Ndi Anambra (the state’s citizens) are convinced that his party has produced benefits of democracy and deserves to have another chance in the upcoming election.
In a media conference to mark his third year, Soludo claimed that the people of the South-East state are party loyal to APGA when it comes to the election process for governor and local government chairmen.
He said, “If there is an election, I mean there will be an election, and I will be on the ballot after that, and I will ask: Who else is running?” Which political party is putting up a candidate?
I have not heard of any people until they come down from somewhere, though.
Bishop Matthew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, has been appointed as the president and head of the Kachia, Kaduna State, Federal University of Applied Sciences, as its Pro-Chancellor and Chairman.
The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made the disclosure in a statement on Monday.
He claimed that the president also appointed professors Daniel Abubakar as university librarian, Prof. Qurix Williams Barnabas as vice Chancellor, Sanusi Gambo Adamu as bursar, and Ibrahim Dalhat as bursar.
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Additionally, President Tinubu approved the appointment of Zarah Bukar (North East), Chief Fabian Nwaora (South), Prof. Femi Taiwo (South West), and Mr. Thomas Etuh (North Central), as members of the university’s Governing Council.
According to the statement, all the nominees were carefully chosen based on their distinguished careers, leadership skills, and commitment to advance education in Nigeria.
In keeping with the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda, Tinubu urged them to make use of their combined expertise to position the university as a hub for academic excellence and research.
As the university prepares to admit its first cohort of students in September 2025, President Tinubu urged the newly appointed officers to provide visionary leadership and lay a solid foundation for its growth.
In comparison to the headline inflation rate of 24.4% in January 2025, Nigeria’s headline inflation rate has decreased to 23.18%.
The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) made this known in its February 2025 consumer price index (CPI) release on Monday.
The headline inflation rate, according to NBS, decreased by 1.30% from the headline inflation rate in January 2025.
“Compared to the headline inflation rate of 24.4% in January 2025, the headline inflation rate eased to 23.18% in February 2025.
The headline inflation rate for February 2025 and January 2025 showed a decrease of 1.30% when compared to the headline inflation rate for the same period.
The Headline inflation rate was 8.52% lower than the rate recorded in February 2024 (31.7%) on a year-over-year basis.
This indicates that the headline inflation rate for the year over the year decreased in February 2025 compared to the same month the year before.
Members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) are not government employees, according to activist and human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong.
In response to the ordeal of Lagos-based NYSC member Ushie Uguamaye, who criticised Tinubu’s administration over the removal of the administration’s gas subsidy and the unification of forex windows, the lawyer made this known on Channels Television’s Beam program on Monday.
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Former president Joe Biden’s preventative pardons were canceled by Donald Trump on Monday after an investigation into the attempt to overturn the 2020 US election sparked outrage among members of Congress.
Trump’s legal standing, if any, was undetermined when it came to revoke the presidential pardons his predecessor had issued.
The Republican made the claim that Biden’s signature on the documents was invalid because it was executed using a common tool known as an autopen, without providing any proof that the autopen or his claim that it would invalidate the signature.
Trump stated on his social media account Truth Social that the pardons “were hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further effect” and that they were carried out by Autopen.
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Former senior Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney and other members of the congressional committee that had been looking into Trump’s supporters’ attempted attacks on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and his numerous unsuccessful attempts to overturn the election were granted pardons by Biden.
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The lawmakers were effectively shielded from Trump’s repeated threats that he would retaliate against them if he won the 2024 election by receiving blanket immunity from the end of his presidency with the Biden pardons.
In this file photo from January 06, 2021, a group of Americans supporting US President Donald Trump, including members of the QAnon Shaman (C), enter the US Capitol in Washington, DC. AFP / Saul LOEB
Trump gave the impression that his action had crossed a contentious legal line.
When Biden was questioned by reporters early on Monday about whether everything he had signed with an autopen should be void, Trump responded, “I think so. The court will have to decide whether or not I make a decision.
However, he claimed that committee members “should fully comprehend that they are subject to investigation at the highest level.”
Additionally, Biden formally acquitted former Covid pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci, retired general Mark Milley, and, perhaps most controversially, close family members like his son Hunter. The incoming Republican president had made of them all their public targets.
Trump has repeatedly demanded “retribution” for his political rivals, threatened some with legal action, and Biden once said he could not “in good conscience do nothing.”
Trump immediately grantes pardons to his supporters when he took office in January, including pardons for about 1,500 of those who were convicted of evicting from the Capitol building in an effort to stop Biden’s election victory on January 6, 2021.
A coalition of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Abuja have criticized the relocation of the Benue State Local Government Election Petition Tribunal from the North Central state to the nation’s capital despite the controversy surrounding the Supreme Court’s removal of Justice Maurice Ikpembese from the state’s capital.
Igwe Ude-Umanta, the coalition’s convener, addressed a rally held on Monday at the National Judicial Council (NJC) headquarters in Abuja) that the tribunal is still sitting.
He made an appeal to Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, the country’s supreme court, to address the alleged corruption in the judiciary, particularly in light of Benue State.
The organizations claimed that registered political parties have outgrown the Nigerian judiciary.
Justice Maurice Ikpambese’s status as NJC’s Chief Judge is also available.
Justice Maurice Ikpambese
The judiciary is the foundation of every democracy, according to Ude-Umanta. The court of law is supposed to be the justice’s arbiter in cases where the constitution is interpreted without bias, but today it is. More politicized than registered political parties, Nigerian courts have.
How on earth could a state’s chief judge defame the state’s laws while keeping quiet about the National Judicial Council (NJC)? The Chief Judge of Benue State, Justice Maurice Ikpambese, unilaterally granted a waiver to local government election tribunal petitioners, a constitutional condition for any legitimate petitioner, and he has not received any punishment.
“On the grounds that the NJC refused to punish him, he once more violated the Electoral Laws of Benue State by moving the Local Government Elections Petition Tribunal to Abuja, which is clearly outside the Benue State Electoral Law, while the NJC is only watching.”
The Attorney General of Benue State approached the Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi to request a ruling restraining the Tribunal from sitting anywhere besides Benue State, including the Abuja house of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). The admiration of Nigerians received this order on March 7, 2025.
“Unsurprisingly, on Friday, March 14, 2025, an FCT High Court 34, led by Justice M. M. Adamu, frivolously issued a second order for the Benue State Local Government Election Tribunal to hold a session in Abuja, particularly at the NBA home.
The question is, “Can the laws of Benue State be applied in any other state besides Benue State” in the FCT? If the answer is no, it is also obvious that Benue State Local Government Election Tribunal cannot serve outside of Benue State.
We are present to protest Justice Maurice Ikpambese and Justice M. M. Adamu, who have, through their deeds, made justice a criminal offense.
We urge President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to keep his arm because the judiciary is being treated with scorn every day. The petitioners did not even take part in any of the election process, making the situation in Benue the worst one at the moment, Monsieur President.
