The All Progressives Congress, its candidate for governor of Kogi State, Usman Ododo, Ozigi Deedat, and the Independent National Electoral Commission were all named in the Federal High Court of Abuja’s dismissal of Abubakar Achimugu’s case on Tuesday because it lacked merit.

In the primary election that was held on April 14, 2023, Ozigi Deedat and Ododo, who finished first and second, had asked for their disqualification. Achimugu, a candidate for governor, had done the same.

According to him, the pair did not resign, withdraw from, or retire from their positions as members of the Kogi State Government’s public service prior to the primary election.

The 2nd and 3rd defendants, on the other hand, were found to have properly resigned from their positions in government, even more than 30 days prior to the primary election date, according to Justice Egwuatu, who also determined that they were eligible to vote in the primary.

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He declared, “I have reviewed the resignation letters addressed to the governor of Kogi State. On March 8th, 2023, they were duly accepted. As of the letter’s receipt date, the resignation letters took effect.

The Constitution’s requirement of 30 days prior to the general election, rather than a party’s primary, for a public employee to resign, according to Justice Egwuatu, was changed.

According to him, there was no legal requirement that the letters of resignation be submitted to INEC or the APC, who are not their employers, and that the claimant’s claim that they were not with those organisations was unsupported by any legal authority.

Rather than a general election, a party primary was held on February 14, 2023.

As a result of their duly submitted resignations, the second and third defendants are eligible to vote in the primary.

Due to its lack of merit, he therefore dismissed the lawsuit.

Ivan Omhonrina, a two-year-old boy, was killed by a stray bullet on Tuesday during an operation by agents of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency at Okpanam in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. President Bola Tinubu expressed his sorrow over the death.

The President instructed the NDLEA management to investigate the incident quickly and thoroughly in order to punish those found to be at fault.

Ivan did not merit that kind of death. In a statement released by his special adviser on special duties, communications, and strategy, Dele Alake, Tinubu said, “We must make sure the incident did not end like that and that what happened to Ivan does not happen to any other person again.

A stray bullet struck the child when NDLEA agents raided the Okpanam neighbourhood of Asaba, the capital city of the Delta province, according to the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who made the confirmation on Saturday.

The victim passed away in the hospital while receiving treatment, according to Babafemi.

In contrast, the President said in a statement titled “President Tinubu sympathises with parents of a two-year-old killed by a stray bullet in Delta,” “I mourn the death of little Ivan Omhonrina and sympathise with his parents for the painful experience of losing an innocent child in a most tragic manner.”

Tinubu called the incident unacceptable and urged security personnel to conduct their operations with greater professionalism and caution in order to protect the lives of uninvolved Nigerians.

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It’s unacceptable what happened there. The President stated, “We must identify those who inflicted suffering on the Omhonrinas and make sure they are brought to justice.

Additionally, he prayed for the deceased’s one-year-old sibling, who was reportedly injured in the tragic incident and sustained an eye injury, to recover quickly.

The government of Abia State claims to have found 2,300 ghost employees in its payroll system and purged them, which has resulted in a savings of over N220 million on the state’s monthly wage bill.

According to the state, the ghost workers were discovered as a result of ongoing verification efforts conducted on the state’s civil servants.

This information was provided by Deaconess Njum Onyemenam, the Accountant General of Abia State, on Monday in Umuahia, the capital of the state.

After having a meeting with the Governor of the state, Dr. Alex Otti, Onyemenam stated that the verification exercise was still in progress when he made his statement.

“From the ongoing verification of workers in the state, local governments, and pensioners, we have been able to save N220m so far.

“Not less than 2,300 ghost workers have been weeded out from the payroll, using the unified payment system and we hope to still identify more as we continue with the exercise,” the accountant general said.

She confirmed and reiterated the directive that the governor issued the previous week, which stated that workers would be paid the arrears of April salaries left behind by the administration before this one, as well as pensions to retirees for the month of June.

She also disclosed that local government employees who were unable to receive their salaries in June due to their failure to submit their verified payment schedule will receive their salaries this week. The reason for this was that they failed to submit their schedules in time.

On Tuesday, the Department of State Services referred to certain solicitors who brought contempt charges against Yusuf Bichi, the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), as “charge and bail lawyers.”

The continuing arrest of the suspended former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, was the impetus for the filing of the charges by the group of solicitors led by Maxwell Opara and Ahmed Tijani.

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In a series of tweets published under its Twitter handle, the service claimed that the attorneys were led by a “overzealous and uneducated IPOB/ESN lawyer.”

It stated that “Charge and bail, overzealous and uneducated IPOB/ESN lawyer Maxwell Okpara is mobilising other like-minded lawyers against DGSS.” Efforts That Are Pointless to Make. Well, Nigerians, beware! This shows a lack of good faith. A case of transferred aggression.

“An activist for the Biafran Republic and counsel for the outlawed IPOB defending the suspended governor of the CBN. Is the IPOB fighting for one of their own?

“What an apparent inconsistency. What exactly is the relevance here? Is there a secret someone is trying to keep from us? May Maxwell have an accurate education on the relevant legal issues, please.”

Opara and a few other lawyers had filed the contempt case against Bichi, stating that he had disobeyed repeated judgements and orders issued by the court, which directed the release of Emefiele from the custody of the agency.

They based the lawsuit that they filed on the alleged violation of repeated decisions that ordered the release of Mr. Emefiele and asked the court to put Bichi in jail for contempt of court for his actions.