Tag Archives: Ehichioya Ezomon

  “The panel, chaired by Justice Kpochi, has barely four months remaining of the six months (180 days) mandated by the electoral law to consider the petitions and return a verdict that should reflect the will of Edo people, as exercised through the ballot on September 21, 2024. Let the legal fireworks begin!” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JANUARY 13, 2025 ...

  To “retrieve” their alleged “stolen mandate,” the PDP and Ighodalo need to prove – “beyond all reasonable doubts,” and “in substantial compliance” with the relevant electoral laws – their weighty allegations of disenfranchisement of voters; suppression of votes; over-voting; vote-buying; manipulation of the process; and connivance of the APC, the INEC and the Police to flip Ighodalo’s “victory” for ...

  “I am impressed by the conducive and calm environment I am seeing, and going forward, I will want this to continue,” Justice Kpochi said, adding, “I appeal to you all to let us put our eyes on the ball so that we can have serene proceedings. You have SANs (Senior Advocates of Nigeria) and very senior lawyers here, nobody ...

  The irony of council elections in Nigeria is that their conduct has attracted little or no monitoring and reporting by election observers, and civil society organisations (CSOs), who overlook unbridled rigging at the polling units, where votes may not be counted, declared and displayed, and collation of results done behind the scenes…” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 10, 2024 ...

  “Perhaps, to Bello, his arraignment was a moment to savour and bask in the frenzy of journalists and EFCC’s operatives scrambling to capture and record his every posture and every gesture as evidence and for prime-time broadcast and publication in the mainstream and online media” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 2, 2024 In my November 18, 2024, article entitled, ...

  Abuwatseya’s about-face reflects a sombre lesson for Nigerians, whose quick expression of sympathy for assumed victims verges on a mob mentality. Were enraged Nigerians to have access to Ikwechegh at the scene of the “misunderstanding” with Abuwatseya, or soon after, they would’ve given him “jungle justice” before asking – if at all – to know what happened between the ...

  “Lately, the EFCC threat to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute former governors has become mostly academic, and the norm rather than the exception. It appears some ex-governors now relish being dragged by the EFCC, at least, as a way to keeping themselves in the news after missing the years of free spotlighting.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 18, 2024 ...

  The Dangote Refinery iterated its commitment to ensuring that Nigeria becomes self-reliant in petroleum production, saying, “we welcome competition that drives innovation and quality,” adding, however, that, “we will never allow the continued importation and blending of petroleum products, nor the deliberate destruction of our national economy.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 12, 2024 If Africa’s richest man and ...

  “We have over ₦40bn in outstanding debt with the NNPCL. I was surprised when Dangote said he has over 500m litres of PMS. We are ready to buy the product from Dangote if he is ready to sell it to us directly,” Garima said, adding that his members weren’t importing petrol, contrary to Dangote’s suggestion, and urged the refinery ...

  “I’ll tell him that it has gotten to a point where he needs to let go. We need peace in this state. You don’t necessarily need to win all the fights; at times, you just let go for the sake of the good people of Rivers State and the love that you have always professed for the state.” PEGASUS ...