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Nigeria to Know Fate Tomorrow as UK Court Delivers Judgment on P&ID’s $11bn Suit Komolafe urges winners of gas flare commercialisation bids to hasten site devt FG deploys tiny tankers for crude oil transportation Ejiofor Alike in Lagos and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja

The Business and Property Court in London will on October 23 (tomorrow) deliver judgment

in a case between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID)

Limited. This is coming as the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian

Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Mr. Gbenga Komolafe, has urged

the bid winners for the Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialisation Continued on page 5

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Appeal Court Not Bound by 180 Days Statute, Atiku RepliesTinubu, INEC, APC Says time limit applies only to election petition tribunals Insists appellate court, not tribunal entertains disputes from presidential elections Alex Enumah in Abuja The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has stated that the

180 days limit set by the 1999 Constitution for election petition cases is only for the election tribunals handling cases arising from the state assemblies, National Assembly and governorship

elections, and not for the Court of Appeal, which entertains disputes from the presidential election. Atiku argued that nothing stops the Supreme Court from accepting fresh evidence of forgery against

President Bola Tinubu, insisting that it is not the election tribunal that entertains disputes arising from the presidential election. According to the former vice president, the 180-day time limit

applies to only the tribunals handling the disputes arising from the state assemblies, National Assembly, and governorship elections. Atiku was replying to the

application by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Tinubu, and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Continued on page 5

Senate Seeks Mandatory Electronic Transmission of Election Results, Jega Concurs Lawmakers advocate unbundling of INEC, diaspora voting Commission's chairman shouldn't be appointed by president, says Jega Chuks Okocha and Sunday Aborisade in Abuja The Senate and a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, have called for the amendment of the electoral laws to ensure mandatory transmission of election results, unbundling of INEC and diaspora voting. This is just as Jega has insisted that the chairman of the commission should not be appointed by the President. The Senate’s position was contained in the communique issued at the end of the two-day retreat organised for senators by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State. The communique said the diaspora voting would give the Nigerians outside the country the opportunity to participate in the Continued on page 5

FELLOWSHIP INVESTITURE... L-R: Special Guest/Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Diaspora and NGOs, Senator Anthony Siyako Yaro; Host and President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, Dr. Ken Opara; former Acting Managing Director/CEO, Bank of Industry, Mr. Waheed Olagunju; and First Vice President of CIBN, Prof. Pius Olanrewaju, during the investiture of Olagunju as a Fellow of CIBN at the Fellowship Investiture ceremony in Lagos…weekend


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