Maharashtra Politics: The Bombay High Court, while giving a hearing on this matter, gave a clear direction to the Mumbai Municipal Administration that they should accept the resignation of Rituja Latke by 11 o clock tomorrow morning. Also, the court has ordered that the municipal commissioner should give a clear reply to Rituja Latke regarding the approval of her resignation and inform the court.
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CIVIL WAR: ‘Nigeria more divided now than in 1967’
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•No basis for Nigeria’s unity – Nnamdi Kanu
By Clifford Ndujihe, Political Editor
YEESTERDAY, January 15, marked exactly 51 years of the end of the 30-month Nigerian-Biafran Civil War that claimed an estimated three million lives on both sides.
After the war, the Nigerian military regime of General Yakubu Gowon declared that there was no victor, no vanquished. He unfurled a three-pronged Programme of reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation to heal the wounds of the war and reintegrate the then Eastern Region, especially the Igbo, into Nigeria.
Fifty decades and a year after it is arguable if progress has been made on this score.
Lagos-East By-election: Sen Abiru urges court to quash PDP’s challenge
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By Onozure Dania, Lagos
The Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Mr Tokunbo Abiru, yesterday asked a Federal High, Court, sitting in Lagos to dismiss a challenge on his eligibility for the office.
Abiru, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), told Justice Chuka Obiozor that the suit, filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the last December 5 senatorial bye-election, Ademola Gbadamosi, was incompetent, defective and ought to be struck out.
Gbadamosi, the plaintiff, claimed that Abiru was ineligible for the election on grounds of alleged double voter registration and indigeneship. But Abiru, who won the election by a landslide, polling 89,204 votes against Gbadamosi’s 11,257 votes, argued his objection in the suit through his counsel Mr Kemi Pinheiro, SAN.