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...
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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...
A group of lawyers under the auspices of Lawyers Network for Bola Ahmed Tinubu (LANBAT) have urged Nigerians to allow court to determine allegations against the APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. The lawyers, who made the call at a news conference in Abuja, said the growing trend of blackmail...
The Federal High Court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi capital, has adjourned ruling on the matter concerning the Labour Party Senatorial candidate, Mr Linus Okorie, to November 22. The Presiding Judge, Justice Riman Fatun, said in Abakaliki on Friday that the adjourned date would be for definite hearing on the bail...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will appeal against Friday’s ruling by Justice Charles Agbaza of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which dismissed a case of corruption against former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal. Ruling in a no-case submission made by...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Friday, declined to grant the prayer of Mr Kola Abiola, the presidential candidate, People’s Redemption Party (PRP), against the plea of an aggrieved aspirant in the June 5 primary election conducted by the party. Justice Fadima Aminu, in a ruling, however, granted...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved and ordered that measures be taken for immediate implementation of the enhanced salary and welfare scheme for judicial officers. Buhari made this known at the official inauguration and handing over ceremony of Nabo Graham-Douglass Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Port Harcourt to the...
An Abuja High Court on Friday discharged a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal and five others of N544 million grass- cutting fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC charged Lawal alongside his younger brother, Hamidu, Suleiman Abubakar; Apeh Monday and two companies,...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, struck out a N20 billion suit filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, SAN. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kanu, through his lawyer,...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, affirmed Mr Liman Kantigi as the validly elected governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 elections in Niger. Justice Zainab Abubarkar, in a judgement, dismissed the suit brought by the plaintiff, Mr Idris Mohammed Sani, for lacking in...
Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, on Thursday told a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square that the statement she wrote at the police was torn. Ojukwu said this while giving evidence at the trial within trial to...