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Supreme Court Verdict: Is Stephen Odey Still A Senator? BY FIRST BABA ISA

The Supreme Court made no consequential order, so Stephen Odey is still the Senator. By consequential order you mean the Supreme Court needed to make a pronouncement like Stephen Odey is no longer the Senator or Jarigbe Agom should be sworn in or something like that. Ok. So, since the Supreme Court didn’t say anything

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Supreme Court Kicks Out Stephen Odey’s Appeal, Affirms Jarigbe Agom As Senator

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Information reaching our newsroom suggests that the Supreme Court sitting in Abuja has kicked out Sen. Stephen Odey’s appeal. It went on to uphold Hon. Jarigbe Agom’s preliminary objection on defective service and he is affirmed the Senator for Cross River North Senatorial district. More details about the developing news will be

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Oku Iboku Crisis: Reps Seek Beef-Up Of Security In Coastal Areas

By Nicholas Kalu, The Nation Newspaper The House of Representatives has mandated its Committees on Army, Navy, Police and Interior to liaise with the Federal Government to set up a joint patrol team of the security agencies on the waterways to beef up security in the coastal areas. This followed a motion calling for intervention

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JUST IN: Senate Confirms Ibas, Buratai, Olonisakin, Sadique As Non-career Ambassadors

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai; former Chief of Defence Staff, Gabriel Olonisakin; former Chief of Air Staff, Abubakar Sadique; and former Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok Ibas as non-career Ambassadors. President Buhari had on February 4, 2020 sent their names to the Senate for

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Panic In PDP As APC Woos Cross River, Zamfara, Bauchi Governors

By Eniola Akinkuotu, Punch Newspaper The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been thrown into panic following an attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to bring in Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and his Cross River State counterpart, Governor Ben Ayade, The Punch Newspaper has

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Interrogating The Soft Landing For Retired Military Service Chiefs And Understanding The Buhari Persona

ThisDay Editor, Magnus Onyibe uses the recent appointment of former Service Chiefs as Ambassadors as basis to focus on certain character traits of President Muhammadu Buhari. Given the pattern of events in the past six years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s stewardship as President and Commander-ln-Chief of The Armed Forces of Nigeria, it is easy to

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2023: Don’t Wrestle Governorship With South – Code 888 Warns, It’s Theirs

By Maxwell Effiong Code 888, a Cross River political group has sued that zoning be continued in the State, suggesting that, come 2023 the Governorship seat be left for the Southern Senatorial District. The group in a media parley in Calabar made the suggestion where it’s Director General, Maurice Nkong in his address to declare

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By-Election: Tribunal Strikes Out Two Cases In Cross River

By Nsa Gill, The Nation Newspaper An inaugural session to signal the beginning of sitting by the National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, following the by-election that held in Cross River State on December 5, last year, began yesterday in Calabar. The three-man tribunal presided over by Justice Yusuf Ubale Muhammad as

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