A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, fixed April 16 for hearing of a suit seeking to stop former Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, from participating in the party’s meetings. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a short ruling, also fixed the date in a separate suit filed...
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A Federal High Court in Lagos State, on Friday, sentenced convicted cross dresser, Idris Okuneye (alias Bobrisky), to six months in prison for abuse of the Naira. The court did not give the cross dresser an option of fine. Bobrisky was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial...
The courts will see the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners (ALDRAP) in action once more. The foremost Legislative Advocacy Group has concluded plans to sue the National Assembly over 40 legislators concurrently serving as legislators at the ECOWAS Parliament and the Pan-African Parliament, respectively. The...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The wife of the Governor of Cross River State, Mrs. Eyoanwaan Bassey Otu, has flagged off the third edition of the Free Medical Outreach at Akamkpa Local Government Area in collaboration with Faith Care Outreach. The medical outreach is part of one of...
The Edo House of Assembly on Monday impeached the Deputy Governor, Mr Philip Shaibu. The impeachment followed the adoption of the recommendation of a seven-man judicial panel led by retired Justice Stephen Omonua. At plenary in Benin, the Majority leader of the house, Charity Aiguobarueghian said the report...
The petty and lazy tactics of the opposition in Anambra State are characterised by the deception of the promise of a single term and propaganda. They are not adept at interpreting the time signs. They are merely fishing, setting off numerous fuses, which signify nothing in real sense....
Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the National Leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), says the party is the best alternative for Nigerians over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC). Kwankwaso, a former Minister of Defence, said this at the NNPP National Convention...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – The Plateau State House of Assembly recently saw the inauguration of 9 out of the 16 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who were declared winners by the Appeal Court. These members had been previously declared winners following the court’s ruling in...
A German Magistrate has issued a detention order for a man suspected of stabbing a 4-year-old girl in a supermarket, police and the public prosecutor said on Friday. The 34-year old was ordered to be taken to a psychiatric hospital for attempted murder combined with dangerous bodily harm....
An Abuja Magistrate Court sitting in Wuse Zone 6, has issued Criminal Summons on five persons, Okoronkwo Ejike, Kingsley Ibeh, DJ Spoiltkid, Terrence Ekot, and Samuel Agozie, for alleged defamation of Gospel singer Mercy Chinwo. The summons is signed by the Registrar of the court, Emmanuel Iyanna. They...
Lawmaker representing Kogi Central senatorial district, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (Kogi Central/PDP), alongside Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, amongst others have been inaugurated as members of the sixth Legislature of the ECOWAS parliament. The inauguration which took place on Thursday at the International Conferences Centre, Abuja, was...
Four Social Democratic Party (SDP) witnesses that testified on Wednesday in the ongoing hearing of the Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja gave contradictory testimonies. The witnesses gave their accounts before the three-member panel of justices led by Justice Ado Birnin-Kudu. The SDP and its governorship candidate,...
Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday accepted a petition by the country’s Election Commission (EC) to disband the main opposition Move Forward Party over its efforts to amend the royal defamation law. The EC provided sufficient evidence to believe that the Move Forward Party had violated the law. The...
The Lagos State judiciary has announced the payment of N30,000 fee per session for all remote or virtual court proceedings across the state from April 1. This is contained in a circular by the Acting Chief Registrar of the state, Mr Tajudeen Elias, dated March 28, obtained by...
Senator Diket Plang (APC/Plateau Central), has said that the National Assembly did not pad the 2024 budget. Plang, a member of the Senate appropriation committee, who stated this on Monday in Jos while interacting with newsmen, said that the National Assembly passed a budget of N28.77 trillion naira....
There was a mild drama, on Thursday, at the Kogi Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja as the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s witness, Danmusa Williams, contradicted himself on documents before the panel. The SDP and its governorship candidate in the Nov. 11 election, Murtala Ajaka, had alleged that...
A Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court, Abuja, sentenced one Nasir Idris to 15 months imprisonment on Thursday for stealing a fan and praying mat from a mosque. The court, however, gave Idris an option to pay a N50,000 fine. The prosecutor, Mr Chinedu Ogada, had earlier told the...
Forum of aggrieved Lagos PDP candidates in 2023 General Elections has instituted a suit against some party leaders, including Chief Bode George, former PDP’s Deputy National Chairman, over alleged anti-party activities. The group compromising 24 candidates who vied for various elective positions is led by Otunba Segun Adewale,...
The House of Representatives has began investigation into alleged certificate racketeering by some officials of Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies involved in alleged certificate racketeering with Nigerian students. Rep. Abubakar Fulata, Chairman, Joint Committee on Certificate Racketeering vowed to confront such menace in the tertiary institutions during...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a man, Ugochukwu Onuoha, to life imprisonment for defiling a five-year old minor, his neighbour’s daughter. Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution had established beyond reasonable doubt, the charge of defilement against Onuoha. Oshodi...