The Kaduna State Governorship Election Tribunal has fixed Saturday, Aug. 5, for Gov. Uba Sani, INEC and the All Progressive Congress (APC) to open their defence in a petition filed against the governor’s election. Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate at the March 18 governorship election...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday in Abeokuta ended its defence in the petition filed by Ladi Adebutu, the Ogun governorship candidate of the PDP. In the petition against Gov. Dapo Abiodun at the election petition tribunal, marked EPT/OG/GOV/03/2023, PDP and Adebutu are challenging his victory based...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Over three communities in Cross River State – Ugbem, Ekpri Iko, Iwuru Obio Ntan, and among others, all in Biase Local Government Area have staged a peaceful protest demanding the immediate transfer of Magistrate I. I Abam; an embattled trial Magistrate accused of...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Foremost Anti-corrupt group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on its appeal of the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja judicial division. The Court discharged former Governor of...
The Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in a petition filed by Mr Peter Obi and Labour Party (LP) challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu into power. Obi and LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election which brought president Bola Tinubu...
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, was at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) on Tuesday as parties were set to adopt their final written addresses. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the adoption of final addresses is the precursor to...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A Federal High Court (FHC) Judge, Justice Peter Mallong, of the Kaduna Division, has passed away. Justice Mallong died on Sunday after a brief illness in Abuja. The Chief Registrar of FHC, Hassan Amida Sulaiman, disclosed the demise of the judge in a statement...
The Supreme Court has confirmed the death of one of its judges, Justice Centus Nweze popularly know as CC Nweze. This is contained in statement issued by Mr Festus Akande, the Director of Press and Information of the apex court on Monday in Abuja. Nweze was said to have...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, in a landmark judgment, has “ordered the disclosure of the spending details of over N200bn public funds collected by the government of former Delta State governor Ifeanyi Okowa from the Universal Basic Education Commission [UBEC] fund...
A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, on Friday, refused to grant bail to Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate, Lagos State, Frederick Nwajagu, charged with terrorism. According to Justice Yetunde Adesanya, the court is constrained to refuse Nwajagu’s bail application based on the seriousness of the...
Sen. Adamu Bulkachuwa has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), the Department of State Services (DSS) and others of colluding with his political enemies to harass him. Bulkachuwa told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, in a suit filed against the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, fixed Oct. 25 for judgment in a suit filed by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited against the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) in respect of its operations in Oil Mining Leases 67, 68, 70 and 104.c Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed...
Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has dismissed a request filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) seeking a 14-day extended detention order for the suspended Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. The DSS based its application on purported new...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a suit seeking to invalidate the nomination of Sen. Lawal Usman as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate for the Feb. 25 Kaduna State Central Senatorial election. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that the suit, filed by Mr Ibrahim...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Wednesday, described as despicable, the July 25 altercation between the Department of State Security Service and officials of Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) before a Federal High Court Lagos. NBA President, Mr Yakubu Maikyau (SAN) has consequently called for disciplinary measures of officers involved...
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Tuesday fixed Sept. 22, to deliver judgment on a fundamental right enforcement suit filed by the former governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the court on July 7, restrained the Kano State...
Gov. Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has closed his defence against the All Progressives Congress (APC), with the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Abdullahi Baffa-Bichi, as a sole witness. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the petitioner, APC is challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, reaffirmed its order, directing the security agencies in the country to provide “maximum security” to Mr Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s candidate in the Nov. 11 governorship election in Kogi State. Justice Inyang Ekwo restated the order at the beginning of hearing...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) to take over the N5 billion suit the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) preferred against Sen. Stella Oduah and others after their arraignment. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the order shortly...