The arraignment of suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja over N6.9 billion alleged procurement fraud has been stalled due to the absence of the second defendant who are said to be indisposed. Although Emefiele...
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The Kano State Government has expressed concern over a bribery alert raised by the Chairman of the Kano State National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, Justice Flora Ngozi Azinge. Azinge had said that there was an attempt to bribe a member of the tribunal with money...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered parties in a suit filed by the Abuja Markets Management Limited (AMML) and its embattled Managing Director, Alhaji Abubakar Faruk, against the Abuja Investments Company Limited (AICL) and others to maintain a status quo until the next adjourned date. Justice Ahmed...
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 28-year-old man, for allegedly breaking into a cemetery and stealing iron rods used to cover a corpse in a grave, valued at N1.1 million. The defendant, Mubarak Kajola, whose residential address was not disclosed, was arraigned on a three-count charge...
Five men on Wednesday appeared before a Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly possessing and displaying two bags of fake U.S. dollars and pound sterling. The defendants are Francis Omwukei 26; Kingsley Ude, 33; Umar ldris, 37; Andrew Eyo, 27; and Bright Ahamefula, 26. ...
A jury in New Zealand found a South African woman guilty on Wednesday of murdering her three young daughters, saying she faced a life sentence for each killing. Lauren Anne Dickason killed her two-year-old twins and their six-year-old sister in September 2021 at their home in Timaru, a...
The Federal Government will on Thursday arraign suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and his associates for N6.9 billion procurement fraud at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja. Emefiele will be arraigned alongside a female CBN employee, Sa’adatu Yaro and her company,...
A legal practitioner, Mr Maxwell Opara, has filed an alleged defamatory suit seeking N10 billion in damages against Twitter and the Department of State Services (DSS). In the writ of summons marked: FCT/HC/CV/7186/23 and filed at the FCT High Court by Malachy Nwaekpe, Opara listed Twitter Nigeria Limited and...
Rep. Mukthar Umar-Zakari (NNPP Kano) has vowed to appeal the Election Petition Tribunal’s decision to invalidate his election due to alleged certificate forgery. Umar-Zakari, who represented Tarauni Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tribunal had nullified his election and declared Hafizu Kawu of the All Progressives Congress...
The family of the late former Head of State, Gen. Murtala Muhammed, has expressed profound discontent with the prosecution of murder trials in Nigeria, urging the National Assembly to enact legal frame for seamless prosecution. The family expressed this in a statement on Tuesday in remembrance of...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The National Judicial Council (NJC) has debunked reports alleging that it has surrendered its statutory powers and functions on Judges’ appointments and promotions to State Governors. NJC’s Director of Information, Mr Soji Oye, said in a statement on Sunday, that the report was fake....
One cannot be envious of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), as the 180 days that the current laws give the Presidential Election Tribunal to render verdict are about to expire. The concern, however, is that the high hopes are progressively giving way to perceived uncertainties that the...
A businessman, Mr Lawal Huwai, has asked a Customary Court in jikwoyi, Abuja, to dissolve his marriage with Promise, on grounds that the union was built on deception and falsehood. Testifying before the court on Friday, Huwai said:”I discovered four days after our marriage that our marriage was...
A Nigerian Human Rights lawyer, Ms Oluwafunke Adeoye, has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Waislitz Global Citizens Choice Award for her outstanding performance in the Criminal Justice sector. The Waislitz Global Citizen Awards are annual cash prizes totaling 250,000 dollars that recognises the excellence of individuals...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Thursday, adjourned until Aug. 15 for hearing of an application seeking to stop prosecution of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. The court will also, on the same day, entertain an application by the...
A Chief Magistrate Court in the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Abuja has ruled that the Presiding Pastor of the House On The Rock Church, Uche Aigbe has a criminal case to answer in the unlawful possession of prohibited firearms found in his possession. The no-case submission made by the...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Barely a month after he received members of the upper bench on a courtesy visit to his office with a promise for official vehicles, Cross River State Governor, Prince Bassey Otu, has presented brand new ford edge vehicles to senior justices in the...
The suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele has asked a Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos to stop the Federal Government from further prosecuting him on the charge of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition or on any other charge for that matter. ...
A constitutional lawyer and right activist, Dr Kayode Ajulo has cautioned some Nigerians against making disparaging comments on judges sitting at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT). He said such comments were troubling and uncalled for. Ajulo said this in a message in Abuja on Tuesday which he titled: ...