PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar on Monday affirmed the nomination of Senator Bassey Otu as the validly nominated candidate for the 2023 general election. The court declared Senator Bassey Otu as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River...
Judiciary
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division has reserved judgment in the application by the Federal Government seeking to stay the execution of the judgment that set free the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The three-member panel of justices led by Justice Haruna Tsalmani...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the court’s deputy chief registrar to notify the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, of the pendency of Abdulrasheed Maina’s suit. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order shortly after Maina’s counsel, Ibrahim Idriss, SAN, informed that he had carried out...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – A former staff of African Alliance Insurance Plc, Mercy Aershimana Orga, had dragged the company to court to challenge the secret withdrawal of an Award Prize after it had been publicly presented to her. The Award Prize had been presented to Mercy at a...
The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Mr David Edevbie, challenging Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori’s nomination as candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 governorship election in Delta. The apex court on Friday dismissed the appeal for lacking in merit. Edevbie, a former Delta State Commissioner for...
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has affirmed the Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Oborevwori Sheriff Francis Orohwedor, as the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 governorship election in Delta State. The Apex Court upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal delivered...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday fixed Dec.6 for trial of of the former Attorney-General of Lagos State, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, charged with corrupt offers to public officers. Shasore served as the Attorney-General of Lagos State and the Commissioner for Justice during the tenure of Mr Babatunde Fashola...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday sentenced one Olasunkanmi Fapohunda to three years imprisonment over offences bordering on internet fraud. Fapohunda, 23, a laundry man and an indigene of Ado-Ekiti in Ekiti State, was prosecuted on a count charge by the anti-graft agency, which he pleaded...
The National Industrial Court on Thursday restrained the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria ( PASAN), from embarking on its proposed strike. The judge, Justice Ibrahim Galadima, gave this directive in a ruling on a motion ex-parte application filed by the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC). The judge granted an...
A former Attorney General of Lago State, Mr Olasupo Shashore, was on Thursday arraigned before a Federal High Court Lagos on a four-count charge of money laundering. He, however, pleaded not guilty to all counts. Details shortly….
Four persons were on Wednesday arraigned before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing 52 head of cattle valued at N10 million. The defendants, Musa Mohammed, 30, Suleiman Musa, 65, Ibrahim Musa, 35 and Ali Mohammed,45, whose addresses were not provided, are facing a count charge of stealing. The...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, insisted that Mr Kanu Agabi (SAN) was the counsel on record representing former Governor of Adamawa, Muritala Nyako in his ongoing alleged N29 billion money laundering case. The trial judge, Justice Okon Abang said this in a short ruling following the announcement...
The Federal High Court in Gusau adjourned until Oct. 27 for definite hearing”, the suit filed by a group: Northern Youth Assembly and other against Gov. Bello Matawalle and three others for alleged perjury. The group in the suit, alleged that there were discrepancies in the academic and birth...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Director of Academics at Nigerian Law School, Abuja, Barrister Chibueze Okorie, says rape as one of the types of Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) is not just an offence but an abominable crime against humanity. Barrister Okorie stated this on Wednesday in Sokoto...
The Magistrate’s Court in Ebonyi on Tuesday, ordered the remand of Linus Okorie, the Ebonyi Labour Party Senatorial Candidate and ex-lawmaker, at the Nigeria Correctional Centre in Abakaliki for alleged conspiracy and murder. The Magistrate, Linda Ogodo, ordered the remand over lack of jurisdiction. The accused was charged April...
Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), says he is suffering from a life-threatening disease and he needs urgent medical attention Maina told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja in an ex-parte motion filed by his lawyer, Israel Obaniyi. The motion, marked:...
A dry cleaner, Ameachi Aneke on Tuesday told an FCT high court, Maitama that the police and correction centre inmates tortured him into admitting that he defiled a minor. Aneke, 34, is dragged for defiling a minor. The defendant told the court through his counsel, Mr Anayo Ilo, that...
Justice Tijani Ringim of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday, ordered some commercial banks in Nigeria, to appear and show cause in a N20 million suit against the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA). The court made the order for parties to appear and show cause, following...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Nasarawa – The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Keffi chapter has elected a new leadership to pilot the affairs of the noble profession. The election which was conducted under a peaceful atmosphere in the High Court premises, Keffi in Nasarawa State gives victory to Barrister Egya John...