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The three-member panel, while delivering the judgment through Justice Bature Isa-Gafai, held Wanchiko’s appeal was unmeritorious.

The appellate court agreed with Kasim’s counsel, Johnson Usman, SAN, that Wanchiko, having presented a forged testimonial to the Independent National Electoral Commission, ought to be disqualified from contesting the election.

The Niger state House of Assembly has stepped down debate on the 2021 budget, due to the absence of speaker’s picture in the document.

The House stated this during a motion on matter of urgent public importance at the plenary on the rampant cases of rape and other sexual assault against women and children across the country.

The House passed the bill following the presentation of the report of the Committee on Planning and Appropriation

The Speaker, Marafa Ahmed Guni, unveiled him alongside Mamman Musa, another nominee, as sent to the House by Governor Abubakar Sani Bello for confirmation.

Less than three months after he assumed office as number citizen of Niger State, the state House of Assembly has…

While accepting his election as Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Guni said: “I accept the nomination and promise to serve the House and people of Niger State diligently

The Chairman of Committee on Judiciary, Hon. Isah Kawu, moved the motion for the House to adopt the report of his committee on the bill.
Kawu said the bill was passed in a bid to stem the tide of rape in the state

This was after the House heard the report of the joint committee on local government affairs, finance and appropriation, public accounts and ward development projects on the 2014 local government councils appropriation bill