The New York Times, a popular newspaper based in the U.S. with correspondents across the world, had objected to paying the fee to retain the verification badge it had freely enjoyed for years.
The Taiwanese leader was honoured with the prestigious Global Leadership Award for her exceptional “determination to resist tyranny”.
The lawyer said Mr Tinubu’s London declaration “graphically and murderously played out weeks later in Nigeria and especially in Lagos.”
The FSB, however, admitted Mr Gershkovich had been accredited by its foreign ministry to work as a reporter in Yekaterinburg, Moscow,
The U.S. government in July 1993 had sought from Mr Tinubu a forfeiture of proceeds of narcotics going up to $460,000.
Iliya Umar Damagum has assumed office as the acting national chairman of the main opposition party.
Mr Chude was arrested on Saturday after he compared Anambra under Governor Charles Soludo to the crime-tainted tenure of former governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju.
The judgement was delivered on Friday.
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 92, divorced four times, has found love again in the arms of Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old police chaplain, whom he met in September last year.
A Supreme Court source said Mr Ariwoola wanted to meet Mr Tinubu to discuss issues that may arise from the budding legal challenge to his declaration as president-elect.
