The Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Danladi Umar to appear before the Senate in a probe on allegations of misconduct brought against him. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order on Tuesday while delivering judgment in a suit filed by...
Judiciary
A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Festus Ogun on Monday filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari at the Federal High Court in Lagos over the excessive pain, hardship and agony Nigerians went through as a result of the fuel scarcity experienced earlier this year. The legal practitioner said he solemnly...
An Osogbo High Court, on Monday, adjourned till May 31 hearing in the trial of the seven people accused of murdering Mr Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. The Chief Judge of Osun, Justice Adepele Ojo, who adjourned the case said it was...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to vacate his seat as member representing Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Federal Constituency in Bauchi State. Delivering judgment, Justice Donatus Okorowo, declared that having defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to...
A trader, Mr Musbau Yekeen, has told a Grade A Customary Court at Mapo in Ibadan to put an end to the 12 year-old union between him and his estranged wife, Tawakalitu on ground of infidelity. Yekeen, a resident of Apete area in Ibadan, Oyo State, said he willfully...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Against the backdrop of illegal occupation of IPMAN offices in some part of the country, The Federal High Court sitting in Calabar has ordered the Nigeria Police Force to vacate its secretariats in Abuja and the eastern zone. The court also warned against the arbitrary...
Nigeria’s apex court, the Supreme Court has ordered the extradition of a Nigerian, Princewill Ugonna Anuebunwa, wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to the United States. Anuebunwa, according to reports, has long been on the FBI list of wanted persons to answer charges bordering on two counts...
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), on Thursday, sought out-of-court settlement in a suit filed against it by Musa Abdullahi, a legal practitioner, over allegations bordering on epileptic power supply. An AEDC’s legal officer, Morayo Yedoni, told Justice Mariya Ismail of a High Court of Niger State sitting in...
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi, Mr Tochukwu Okorie, was not validly nominated to contest election into the position, the Federal High Court, Abuja, ruled on Wednesday. Delivering ruling in the suit filed by Mr Silas Onu, challenging the election of Okorie, Justice Ahmed Mohammed held...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned Bolarinwa Abiodun, a fake Army General. Abiodun was docked before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos. The suspect is facing a 13-count charge including obtaining money by false pretence, forgery of...
Claimants have prayed a Federal Competition and Consumer Protection (FCCPC) Tribunal to commit the Managing Director of MultiChoice Nigeria Ltd, John Ugbe, to prison for alleged disregard to its order. The claimants filed a suit filed against MultiChoice Nigeria Limited over its recent decision to increase its tariffs and...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, on May 30, re-arraign former National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, on allegations bordering on N400 million fraud. Metuh is expected to be re-arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja. The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has kicked against an interim order made ex parte by the Awka Division of the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Hyeladzira A. Nganjiwa granting the former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano leave to travel abroad to the United...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a fundamental enforcement rights suit filed by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Justice Inyang Ekwo dismissed the suit on Thursday after the counsel for the NDLEA, Joseph Sunday, prayed the court...
A Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday, exonerated the Federal Government on the allegation that leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was forcefully abducted abroad to stand his trial. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, held that rendition for the purpose of criminal investigation...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has dismissed a suit by oil and gas services firm, Marine Assets and Offshore Equipment Limited, to stop its investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Bolaji Olajuwon, in a judgment, said that the suit instituted by the company and...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the government to comply with the 35% affirmative action for women, which allows women occupy 35% of all appointments. Delivering judgement on Wednesday, Justice Donatus Okorowo, said the Federal Government had the obligation to implement the 35 per cent affirmative action,...
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, has ordered the remand of 107 year old Furera Abubakar, and Isah Hassan, 17, in a correctional centre for allegedly plucking out the eye of a 12-year-old. The Prosecution counsel, Mr Lamido Soron-Dinki, told the court on Wednesday, that the defendants committed the offence...
An hotel manager, who allegedly raped a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member in Osogbo, will appear in court on Tuesday. SP Yemisi Opalola, the Police Spokesperson, Osun Command, Nigeria Police, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview. Opalola said that police...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s prosecution witness (PW1), Umar Babangida, on Thursday, linked former Director of Legal, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Grace Taiga’s link in the alleged 9.6 billion dollars Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID) scandal. Babangida, who is the Head, Special Investigation Unit on P&ID in...