By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has assured of his administration’s commitment to conclude a thorough review of the salaries and allowances of judicial officers in the country. Tinubu said this on Thursday when he received the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)...
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The National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Lagos has nullified the return of the Labour Party (LP) ’s candidate, Seyi Sowunmi as the House of Representatives member for Ojo Federal Constituency in Lagos State. Instead, the three-man panel led by Justice Abdullahi Ozegya declared the candidate of...
The National Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Jos on Thursday dismissed the petition challenging the election of Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Simon Mwadkon (PDP/Plateau North). Justice Mohammed Mohammed, who delivered the judgement, said that the petition against the senate minority leader lacked merit and had been dismissed...
The arraignment of the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Gov. Godwin Emefiele and two others before an FCT Court failed to hold on Wednesday. Though the court sat to hear other cases, no reason was given for the failure of the arraignment of the embattled Emefiele and...
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors are accusing a former Central African Republic militia leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity, in proceedings that began in The Hague on Tuesday. Maxime Jeoffroy said to have played a central role in the violence carried out between 2013 and 2014...
The National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia has dismissed a petition challenging the election of Rep. Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. In his ruling, Justice Samson Paul-Gang, who led the three-member panel on Tuesday, dismissed the petition by the Labour Party...
The Kano State Election Petition Tribunal on Monday reserved judgment in a petition filed by the All Progressive Congress(APC) challenging the victory of Gov. Abba Kabir-Yusuf of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC is challenging INEC for declaring Kabir-Yusuf...
A British nurse, Lucy Letby, was on Friday, August 18, 2023, found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to murder six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK’s most prolific killer of children. Letby, 33 – on trial since last October...
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...
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...