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.
The State House of Assembly is accused of stifling Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s efforts to put the Supreme Court’s decision into effect in the state’s political crisis by the Executive Arm of the Rivers State Government.
In response to remarks made by Enemi Alabo-George, the chairman of the House of Assembly Committee on Information, who claimed Fubara had stifled the process, the Commissioner for Information, Joe Johnson, made this statement on Monday.
Despite numerous attempts, Johnson claimed that the Assembly has consistently rejected correspondence from the governor.
He cited video evidence that the lawmakers purposefully ignored the government’s efforts to deliver official documents.
Johnson added that some of these correspondences had been published in national newspapers.
He explained that the Assembly never received the documents, so the government was unable to provide acknowledgment copies of the letters Alabo-George had challenged.
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The commissioner claimed that the executive branch had not yet received any correspondence from the State Assembly in response to the most recent allegations of gross misconduct against the governor and his deputy.
He reiterated that Fubara has always fought for peace and that it has upheld a court’s order directing local government leaders to become the head of local government administrations.
He claimed that the governor also indicated an interest in putting the rest of the apex bank’s directives into practice as soon as the judgment’s Certified True Copy is available.
He claimed that the Assembly issued ultimatums to the governor and the state electoral commission in response to the Assembly’s hostility.
He claimed that legal experts had also questioned its legitimacy and that this action was part of a deliberate plan to cause chaos.
Johnson also criticized the Assembly’s recent request for a Chief Judge’s investigation, claiming that the Assembly’s recent actions demonstrated that the state wasn’t interested in their priorities.
The State House of Assembly has officially served a notice of alleged misconduct against Governor, which has reached a boiling point in Rivers State. Effectively, Prof. Ngozi Odu and Senator Siminalayi Fubara sparked the impeachment process.
The lawmakers assert that their decision is in line with the Nigerian Constitution, according to a notice obtained from the Assembly on Monday.
According to the notice, the action was “in accordance with Section 188 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and other existing laws.”
The notice supports rumors that Governor. Following a Supreme Court decision that approved the rights of 27 lawmakers to his estranged successor, former governor, Fubara may be impeached. Nyesom Wike .
According to Persecondnews, Wike stated in a press conference on March 12 that if found guilty of misconduct, Fubara should be subject to impeachment in accordance with the law.
He asserted that politics is not a game. Let them impeach him if they have done something against him. It is not a crime.
Gov. is brought up by Persecondnews. Since Fubara took office, Wike and his predecessor have been at odds with one another.
Wike claims that Fubara violated their agreement, which was brokered by President Bola Tinubu, while Fubara alleges that Wike seeks to control the state’s resources.
After the PDP defectors to the All Progressives Congress (APC), 27 Wike-backed lawmakers left the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in December 2023, and the crisis grew to the point where Fubara stopped working with them.
On December 13, 2023, he gave the House’s 2024 budget to a group led by Edison Ehie.
The Supreme Court ordered the Martins Amaewhule-led House faction and other elected members to resume their legislative duties immediately and without any delay on February 28 after much legal back-and-forth.
