The Presidential Eection Petition Court (PEPC) on Friday admitted two video flash drive in evidence brought by Mr Peter Obi through a subpoenaed witness to prove his petition against president Bola Tinubu Obi and his Labour Party (LP) are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election which...
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The applicants and their lawyer, Stanley Agumaeme, in a suit seeking extension of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure pending the determination of the petitions before Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) have abandoned the case. Justice Inyang Ekwo made this known on Friday in a ruling on the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/656/23...
By HARUNA AHMED, Katsina – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 8, 2023, arraigned the duo of Saadu Maiwada and Sani Lawal BK before Justice Musa Danladi of the Katsina State High Court on a five-count charge of conspiracy and criminal breach of trust. The...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Justice O. A.Okunuga of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Thursday, June 8, 2023, adjourned till June 28, 2023 “for hearing” in the alleged fraud trial involving one Sennaike Opeoluwa. Opeoluwa, alongside his firm, Sennaike Consulting Limited, was arraigned by the...
An Ogudu Magistrates Court in Lagos on Friday granted a teenager, Lekan Wasiu, a bail of N500,000 after he was docked for attempted theft. Wasiu, 19-year-old, was dragged to the court for attempting to steal a GAC SUV car. The accused, a mechanic who resides in the Bolar of Ajah area,...
Tinubu assents to constitutional amendment bill on uniformity in retirement age of judicial officers
Tinubu assents to constitutional amendment bill on uniformity in retirement age of judicial officers
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – In exercising the powers vested in him under the 1999 Constitution as amended, President Bola Tinubu on Thursday at the State House assented to a fresh amendment of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. President Tinubu signed into law the “Constitution of...
The FCT High Court in Gwagwalada on Thursday ordered a student, Istifanus Irmiya, to clean the premises of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for two weeks for internet fraud. Irmiya was docked by the EFCC on a two-count charge, boarding on cheating and personation. He pleaded guilty...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja on Thursday urged the EFCC to educate a man, Ndubisi Success convicted for internet fraud on merits and demerits of fraud. Success was docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for creating an Instagram account for the...
Mr Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) on Wed tendered more documents before the presidential election petition court (PEPC). Documents presented were form EC8B series from four states, EC8C, from 13 states, EC8D from 36 states and FCT, lastly, form EC8D(A) which is the national result. Mr Peter...
ECOWAS Court to deliver judgment in suit filed by former Liberian President, Dr Charles Taylor over his unpaid pension and other benefits on Friday. On the panel for the case are Justices Dupe Atoki, Mohamed Sengu Koroma and Ricardo Claudio Monteiro Goncalves. Justice Atoki would, however, be presiding. In his...
A man, Ali Abubakar, who was dragged to a Shari’a court sitting in Kaduna by his wife, Ajinomo Ohunenene-Ummi on Wednesday was absent owing to lack of transport fare to the court. Abubakar had sent word throught the court messenger, Tajuddeen Saidu that he would not be available for...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), for clogging the wheel of progress in the prosecution of his petition. Atiku told the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) on Wednesday in Abuja that inspite of paying...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, (APC) on Wednesday in Abuja, opposed the appearance of subpoenaed witnesses of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) to testify. The respondents appeared unsettled when the petitioners called the first subpoenaed witness...
A private Nigerian Airline, Air Peace Ltd, has sued the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) before the Federal High Court in Lagos over the alleged disruption of its operations by the unions and its officers. The airline is asking the court to award...
Edo High Court on Tuesday sentenced 19 persons to prison for engaging in internet fraud popularly known as “Yahoo Yahoo”. The convicts in separate judgements by Justices Efe Ikponmwonba and Mary Itsueli in Benin, were found guilty of the charges levelled against them. A statement by Wilson Uwujaren, Head,...
The Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday in Abuja admitted forms for the collation of presidential election results in 17 states as exhibits in a petition filed against the election of President Bola Tinubu. The petitioners, Mr Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) at the Feb....
The Appeal court on Tuesday reserved ruling in the appeal filed by the former governor of Jigawa , Sule Lamido, challenging the decision of the Federal High Court dismissing his no -case -submission. Lamido, his two sons, Aminu and Mustapha, Aminu Wada Abubakar, and their companies, Bamaina Holdings Ltd...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to appear before it on July 19 over a 53 million dollar-judgment debt arising from the Pars Club refund. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the order during the hearing of a suit...
A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, FCT, has dissolved a 14-year-old ‘loveless marriage” between a businesswoman, Rahinat Ahmed and her former husband, Abdulhakim Aliyu. The Judge, Malam Ibrahim Rufai dissolved the marriage according to Islamic Law, following Ahmed’s prayer for divorce on grounds of lack of love. Rufai...
Hearing of the petition of Mr Peter Obi and the Labour Party continued on Monday at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) with the petitioners tendering more documents in evidence. Mr Patrick Ikwueto, SAN, who conducted the proceedings for the petitioners tendered Form EC8A from eights states. The documents...