A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has nullified the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano. The court presided by Justice Abdullahi Muhammad Liman nullified all the actions taken after the reinstatement. The court set aside the new (repealed) emirate law 2024, which purportedly dethroned Aminu Bayero and four other first-class Emirs in the state. The judge faulted Governor Abba Yusuf for disobeying the court order restricting him from enforcing the new law.

President Bola Tinubu congratulates all for witnessing the celebration of another Democracy Day today, the 12th day of June 2024.

Members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, have dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Twenty-seven (27) of the Thirty-two (32) members of the House of Assembly announced their defection on the floor of the House during Monday’s sitting. In the letter, which was also addressed to the state’s acting chairman of PDP and signed by all the 27 lawmakers, the defectors cited the division at the national leadership of the party for their decision to quit the PDP.