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BREAKING: Court orders INEC to deregister ADC, ZLP, 3 others | #NwokeukwuMascot

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  News   ABUJA — The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and four other political parties. The other political parties the court directed the electoral body to deregister are the Action Peoples Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Accord Party (AP), and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP). The court order followed a judgment delivered by Justice Peter Lifu.  The National Forum of Former Legislators had, in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2637/2026, prayed the court to determine whether INEC has a constitutional obligation to remove political parties that fail to meet the electoral performance thresholds set out in Section 225A of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), as reinforced by the Electoral Act 2022 and INEC’s regulations. It was the position of the plaintiff that the five political parties listed as defendants in the matter had persistently failed to meet the constitutional ...

'Only Katsina Govt Can Explain How My Father's Corpse Was Retrieved From Bandits’ Den’ – Son Of Late Retd Maj. Gen. Rabe Abubakar | #NwokeukwuMascot

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  News   The family of the late retired Major General Rabe Abubakar has demanded answers from the Katsina State Government over the circumstances surrounding the recovery of the former military officer’s corpse, insisting that only the government can explain how his body was brought back while his wife remains in the custody of armed bandits . Speaking in an interview conducted in Hausa with DW Hausa , Ishaka Rabe Abubakar , son of the deceased military officer, dismissed reports suggesting that his mother had regained freedom, maintaining that she is still being held captive by the terrorists. Abubakar and his wife, Amina, were abducted on May 30 while travelling along the Marabar Musawa Kafinsoli Road in Katsina State. The couple was reportedly ambushed by armed bandits near Zakin Baure village in Matazu Local Government Area, during which their driver sustained gunshot injuries. News of his death stirred widespread reactions, with conflicting accounts emerging over the c...

Rising Insecurity: Thieves Steal Chief Magistrate’s Vehicle Outside Court Premises in Abia | #NwokeukwuMascot

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  News   Fresh concerns over the worsening security situation in Umuahia , the Abia State capital, have emerged following the theft of a vehicle belonging to a serving chief magistrate from directly outside a court premises in broad daylight. The stolen vehicle, a black Toyota Corolla belonging to Chief Magistrate Mrs. Ngozi Pearl Lekwa of Court 2, Umuahia, was reportedly taken from where it was parked along Finbarrs Road, adjacent to the court complex. Recounting the incident, Mrs. Lekwa disclosed that she arrived at work at about 9:00 a.m. and parked the vehicle outside the court premises before proceeding to her office to attend to official duties. According to her, she had planned to briefly step out later in the day to attend to some personal errands. However, when she left her office shortly after noon, she was shocked to discover that the vehicle had vanished from where it had been parked. The magistrate said a friend later informed her that she had seen t...