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Plateau 2023: Lanlong working to rig election – alleged Ubandoma

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September 13, 2022

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The Executive Chairman of Langtang North Local Government Area of Plateau State, Hon. Joshua Ubandoma has said Governor Lalong is desperate to rig the 2023 elections in the State together with the Director General of Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organisation.

He described the statement made by the governor at the weekend in Plateau South that whoever is not willing to remain in APC can go and that the party will win the three senatorial districts, eight federal House of Representatives seats, and all the 24 seats in the state House of Assembly respectively, as unfortunate and unacceptable.

Governor Lalong reportedly made the statement while addressing APC stakeholders in Shendam, saying whoever feels disenfranchised by the APC primaries should go to court and seek redress.

Ubandoma reacted, saying there is nothing in place to support Governor Simon Lalong’s claims.

he said “It means that as DG of the theTinubu/Shettima Campaign Organisation, they have already concluded plans to rig the 2023 elections in the state. I can assure anybody that with that statement, the Governor is going to find it very tough since he has made it clear that the election is going to be rigged”, Ubandoma noted.

He explained that this is not how a leader should speak, noting that Governor Lalong is always making statements that tend to disunite and dismember the state. Ubandoma has accordingly cautioned the Governor and urged him to steer clear from the Plateau Southern zone because it would not be possible to rig out the will of the people in 2023.

“Governor Lalong cannot succeed in doing that in Southern Plateau because he lacks the capacity and cooperation to do that. With the statement credited to him, we are not going to take it lightly with him. I want the INEC and the general public to know that Governor Lalong and the Federal Government have concluded plans to rig the 2023 general elections in Plateau State because he is the DG Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organisation”, Ubandoma noted.

However, the state publicity secretary of APC, Sylvanus Namang In reaction to Hon. Joshua Ubandoma claims said the opposition party has already conceded defeat before the election in 2023.

He said they are jittery about the ruling party everywhere in the state even when they have not started campaigning.

Namang also added that what is happening now is simply testing the microphone as APC is very much capable of winning every seat in the 2023 election.

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LPPC Bars Ozekhome from Using SAN Title Amid Ongoing Ethics Review

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June 25, 2026

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BY SUNDAY SAMUEL The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) has directed prominent lawyer Mike Ozekhome to stop using the title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) pending the conclusion of disciplinary proceedings against him.

The decision was made in line with Paragraph 26(6) of the guidelines governing the award and regulation of the SAN rank. The measure will remain in force until the committee reaches a final decision on matters currently before its Disciplinary and Ethics Sub-Committee, as well as other related proceedings.

According to the LPPC, the action is intended to protect the honour, reputation and standing of the prestigious SAN designation while the issues under consideration are thoroughly examined.

As a result, Ozekhome is prohibited from portraying or identifying himself as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria until the disciplinary process is concluded.

The committee reaffirmed its dedication to promoting professionalism, ethical conduct and accountability within the legal profession, stressing the need to preserve public trust in the SAN institution.

Ozekhome was elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2010, joining a group of 19 distinguished legal practitioners admitted to the Inner Bar that year.

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Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war

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June 25, 2026

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Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the MATCH Act, a bill that would bar Chinese chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor equipment, and one that would hit ASML especially hard.

ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe’s most valuable company and the only maker in the world of the sophisticated lithography machines that are used to make cutting-edge AI chips.

“It’s exceptional that I’m coming here to broadly outline our concerns to Congress,” Sjoerdsma told Bloomberg after the meetings. “The stakes for the Netherlands may be very high.”

China accounts for 19% of ASML’s net system sales. The MATCH Act would go further than existing controls, extending curbs to ASML’s deep ultraviolet immersion machines on top of the long-standing ban on its most advanced extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, tools reaching China.

As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now relegate off limits.

The bill, introduced in April, hasn’t yet faced a full House or Senate vote; Bloomberg notes it would likely need to be folded into a larger package to pass.