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GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha faces the prospect of being probed by the incoming government of Imo State after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said that he will have to account for how he managed the state's finances over the last eight years.

CIVIL society group the Benue Youth Alliance (BYA) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to get the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to move the collation centre for the supplementary polls on March 23 to a Makurdi military barracks.

ACTING chief judge of Nigeria Justice Tanko Mohammed has declared that he will stand down from his position if the substantive holder Justice Walter Onnoghen is cleared by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) and allowed to resume duty.

GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha has been accused by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of withdrawing N17bn ($47m) of Imo State funds from four commercial banks over the last three days and converting government property to personal use.

MEMBERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State have gone spiritual over the last week going on hajj to Mecca and visiting mosques in the run-up to the March 23 supplementary elections.

LABOUR minister Dr Chris Ngige has suggested that senators-elect Orji Uzor Kalu, Ben Uwajumogu and Rochas Okorocha are all candidates who are fully qualified to become the senate president in the ninth National Assembly.

FIRST lady Hadjia Aisha Buhari has visited the victims of the recent collapsed building in the Ita Faaji area of Lagos who are recovering at the Lagos Island General Hospital to sympathise with them.

KANO State's Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has stepped up the construction of infrastructural projects in the Nassarawa Local Government Area of the state where supplementary elections are due to take place on march 23 in a desperate bid to win over voters.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) Federal House of Representatives candidate in the Ikwo/Ezza South federal constituency of Ebonyi State Chinedu Ogah has castigated his kinsmen saying not enough Igbos voted for President Muhammadu Buhari to warrant them being given a shot at the presidency in 2023.

FORMER first lady Dame Patience Jonathan has lost another major legal battle after the Supreme Court of Nigeria ruled against her and declared that she should forfeit the sum of N2.5bn ($6.9m) to the federal government.