Justice Hamza Muazu of a High Court in Abuja, on Friday granted an order of stay execution on the suspension of Julius Abure , Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) and others. Others are the National Organizing Secretary, Mr Clement Ojukwu and National Treasurer, Oluchi Opara, from parading themselves...
Judiciary
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano State has nullified the candidature of the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti. Aside from Otti, the court presided over by Justice M N Yunusa also nullified the candidature of all Labour Party flagbearers in Abia and Kano States. Yunusa ruled that...
The Enugu State Governor-elect, Mr Peter Mbah, has filed a N20 billion suit against the National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC) at the Federal High Court, over alleged conspiracy, deceit, and misrepresentation of facts. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that Justice Inyang Ekwo had on Monday, upon a...
Apostle Suleiman Johnson, the Founder of Omega Fire Ministries International, has challenged Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar to subject her allegation against him to trial in court. The clergy who spoke through his lawyer, Dr Abdul Mahmud, said the actress should subject the purported claims against him to judicial scrutiny by filing a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Secretary General, South-East Obidient movement, Chinedu Oha has called on National Judiciary Institute (NJI) to as a matter of urgency call to order judges handling election tribunal in South East as more evidences on bribe are witness at the tribunals. He made the call...
The Police in Lagos State on Thursday arraigned a 20-year-old cashier, Toheeb Lawal, who allegedly played ‘Baba Ijebu’ lotto worth N131,000 but failed to pay. Lawal is standing trial on a count charge of stealing before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court. He, however, pleaded not guilty before Magistrate M.O Tanimola....
Hearing in the case against Premiere Academy, Lugbe over alleged failure to care for 14 year old Keren-Happuch Akpagher which led to her alleged rape and death was stalled on Thursday in an Abuja High Court. The 14-year-old girl died on June 22, 2021 after she allegedly contracted sepsis...
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has adjourned until Monday pre- hearing of the petition filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM). The five-member panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, adjourned after listening to the submissions of all the parties in their various applications. ” The petition is further...
A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday grantedan application for extension of remand of afrobeat singer Seun Kuti for additional four days. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Olatubosun, extended Kuti’s remand until May 23. Mr Simon Lough (SAN), who led a police legal team to the court,...
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Thursday resumed for continuation of hearing in the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The court is presently hearing the application for live coverage of proceedings. Counsel for Atiku and PDP, Chris Uche, said the motion dated...
An indigenous woman in Mexico was sentenced to six years and two months in prison for the murder of her rapist. The court acknowledged that the woman, named only as Roxana N, acted in self-defence when she killed her attacker in 2021, but said she used excessive force. The...
A Federal High Court in Abuja an application by ECOBANK Nigeria Limited to restrain the Federal Government from forcing the bank to refund N800 million arising from loss suffered due to the multiple payments made to beneficiaries of the Amnesty Programme. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, ordered Isaac...
A 44- year-old woman, Oluwatoyin Falade, on Wednesday prayed an Orile Agege Customary Court to dissolve her 11-year-old marriage on grounds of infidelity on the part of her husband, Segun. The petitioner, who lives at 23, Tunde Davids Close, Agege, Lagos has two children for Segun, ages, eight and...
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned to Friday, May 19 for continuation of pre-hearing in the petition by presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi against the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu. LP National Chairman, Julius Abure was also in court on Wednesday. The...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Due to the limited number of superior court judges, the Nasarawa State House of Assembly says on Tuesday next week, it would pass into law ‘A Bill For a Law to Amend the Number of Judges of the Superior Courts of Record Law 2001...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, says the Federal Government has recorded modest gains in the area of Justice reforms through legislations and judicial decisions. Malami disclosed this at the two-day body of Attorneys General conference on Tuesday, in Abuja. “The achievements...
The Lagos State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) says no fewer than 20 lawyers and legal professionals have volunteered to help the party and its candidates retrieve their allegedly stolen mandates. The party at a meeting with some of its candidates in the last general elections, said that...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Tuesday, gave reasons it resorted to the trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendants behind closed doors. Counsel for the NDLEA, Mr Sunday Joseph, told newsmen who were barred from covering the sitting shortly after the case was...
A Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Tuesday ordered that a 22-year-old man, Ibrahim Musa, who allegedly stabbed his biological mother, Hajara Mohammed, 50, be remanded in a correction centre.. The police charged Musa, who lives in Bachirawa Quarters Kano, with standing culpable homicide. The Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Rabi’a...
A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, on Tuesday ordered remand of afrobeat singer Seun Kuti for alleged assault on a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Olatubosun, held that Kuti should be remanded for 48 hours in police custody. She, however,...