Supreme Court affirms Fayose’s victory

The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed Ayodele Fayose as the winner and the duly elected governor of Ekiti State in the June 21, 2014 election. In a unanimous decision by the seven-man panel led by Justice John Fabiyi, the apex court upheld the earlier decisions of the Court of Appeal and the Ekiti State Governorship Election Tribunal, both of which had earlier ruled that the petition challenging Fayose’s victory lacked merit.

I’ll restore military ties with US –Buhari

The President-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday said his administration would restore military cooperation with the United States of America. In an article published by the New York Times in its Tuesday edition, Buhari promised to among other things reformed the military. The outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration had cancelled the training component of its military cooperation with the US citing a lack of sincerity on the part of the Americans for its decision.

Ceremonies were   staged in Abuja and Lagos on Tuesday to mark one year since   over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram from their college hostel in Chibok, Borno State. Two hundred and nineteen female pupils, representing each of the yet-to-be freed Chibok schoolchildren took part in a procession in Abuja   while in Lagos, two young men added a little bizarre twist to the event by chaining themselves for two hours on the 3rd Mainland Bridge.