The Federal High Court Abuja has issued a warrant for the arrest of the Deputy Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Amarachi Iwuanyanwu, following his alleged involvement in a N785 million fraud. In a ruling, Justice Inyang Ekwo, directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),...
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The National Assembly Joint Committee on Judiciary has called for better welfare package for judicial officers in the country. The Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele said this at the 2023 budget defence of the National Judicial Council (NJC) in Abuja on Friday. He said that poor welfare...
A Federal High Court in Osun , on Friday, nullified the State Local Governments Election conducted by Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). The Presiding Judge , Justice Ayo-Nathaniel Emmanuel, held that the election conducted by OSIEC on Oct. 15, was illegal , null and void , having not conducted...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, adjourned an application filed by former Governor of Imo, Sen. Rochas Okorocha, until Feb. 6 for ruling. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after counsel to the parties adopted their processes and presented their arguments for and against Okorocha’s preliminary objection. The...
Two men were on Friday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan for alleged abuse of a corpse. The police charged Isa Abdulkadir, 39 and Daniel Emmanuel, 38 with conspiracy and misconduct with regard to a corpse. The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Foluke Adedosu, told the court that the defendants...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the arrest of one of the alleged brains behind the Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd’s alleged 9.6 billion dollars scandal, Corrado Fantoli. Justice Donatus Okorowo gave the order while delivering a ruling in the ex-parte motion moved by the Economic...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the removal of Rep Chris Azubuogu as the 2023 Anambra South Senatorial District candidate for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, directed the party to, forthwith, submit the name of the plaintiff, Ben Nwankwo, to...
The Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the conviction of Faisal, the son of the jailed former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, for conspiracy and money laundering. In addition, a three-member panel of the appellate court reduced his term of imprisonment from 14...
The Department of State Services (DSS), on Thursday, withdrew a suit filed at a Federal High Court, Abuja to detain the former terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, for 60 more days after his arrest. DSS’ counsel, A.M. Danlami, told Justice Nkeonye Maha shortly after the matter was called for hearing....
JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – The governors of Delta and Ebonyi state are to answer contempt of court charges before the Federal High Court Port Harcourt, over their alleged refusal to pay judgment creditors/applicants a total sum of N54.30 billion and USD139.55 million. Governors Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Yola has set aside the High Court rulings nullifying the primaries that produced Emmanuel Bwacha and Aishatu Binani as the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidates for Taraba and Adamawa states respectively. The court on Thursday ordered that their names should be forwarded...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Thursday, fixed Dec. 1 for judgment in a suit filed by Mr Jimi Lawal, an aggrieved governorship aspirant in the May 25 Ogun Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s primary election. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after counsel to the parties adopted their...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a case filed by the Action Peoples Party (APP) seeking to nullify the candidature of Bola Tinubu as 2023 presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Bayo Onanuga,Director of Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) said this...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has opposed a motion filed by Senator Rochas Okorocha, praying for an order quashing the money laundering charge preferred against him. The EFCC, in a counter affidavit deposed to by Iyabo Daramola, the agency’s senior legal officer, and filed before Justice Inyang Ekwo...
A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 35-year-old man, Eugene Izuchukwu, for allegedly swindling COVID-19 loan applicants of N28.8million in Benue. The police charged Izuchukwu with advance fee fraud and criminal intimation. The Magistrate, Mrs Erdoo Ter, however, did not take the plea of Izuchukwu for want...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, invalidated the primary election that produced Rep Sani Galadima as the PDP candidate for the 2023 Kaura Namoda/Birnin Magaji Federal Constituency of Zamfara election. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgement, ordered the conduct of a fresh election within 14 days of the...
A 47- year-old man, Olanrewaju Alonge, was on Monday docked in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’Court in Ibadan for allegedly stealing an ATM card and withdrawing N36 million. The police charged Alonge, whose address was not given with theft. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Prosecution...
A businessman Mr Victor Ora on Monday dragged his wife, Comfort before a Customary Court in jikwoyi Abuja, for alleged secret marriage. Victor, the petitioner in his divorce petition, said:” my wife moved out of our house without informing me. When I found her she confessed that she got...
South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Monday that former President Jacob Zuma should return to prison to finish his sentence for contempt of court. The court said the decision to release Zuma on early medical parole was unlawful. Zuma was sentenced in 2021 to 15 months’ imprisonment...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday commended Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers for his support to the legal education in the country. President Buhari made the commendation during the inauguration of the Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas Campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt. President Buhari, represented by Justice...