Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court of Nigeria sitting in Abuja on Thursday discharged and acquitted suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari and his two brothers in a 23-count charge filed against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Delivering judgment on March 5,...
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Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari on Wednesday firmly insisted that he fully disclosed all his assets — and those of his wife — as required by law, telling a Federal High Court in Abuja that allegations of concealment were fabricated. Kyari, who is on trial for...
Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has denied owning several properties reportedly traced to him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in his ongoing trial over alleged failure to declare assets. Kyari, who appeared before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on...
Adeshina Fasasi, a witness for the defense, testified on Thursday before the Federal High Court in Abuja that an analysis of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari’s call records showed no communication with any phone number associated with a suspected cocaine dealer, referred to as Mike Coke. Fasasi,...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, ordered the suspended DCP Abba Kyari, and his co-defendants to enter their defence in the charge preferred against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Justice Emeka Nwite, in separate rulings on their no-case submission applications, held that a...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to grant bail to the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and four other police officers charged with alleged drug trafficking. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that other defendants in the charge marked FHC/ABJ/57/2022, are four members of the disbanded...
An Abuja Federal High Court has granted former Commander of the Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, a two-week bail. Kyari was granted bail to enable him return home and complete the burial rites of his late mother. The court subsequently set Friday, May 31 for determination of...
Court convicts mother of 5 for forging late Abba Kyari’s signature A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Gwagwalada, Abuja has found guilty and convicted one Mrs. Ramat Mercy Mba, a mother of five children guilty of forging the signature of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff,...
Abba Kyari, CFR, OON! Remember him? Kyari was the Chief of Staff (CoS) to former President Muhammadu Buhari. Born on September 23, 1952, he served in that prestigious position between August 2015 and April 2020. While in office, little was actually known about Kyari in the public realm....
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, admitted suspended DCP Abba Kyari to a N50 million in a charge filed against him and two others by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). in which he and two of his siblings are accused of failing to declare assets to...
Journalists covering the ongoing trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and others were, on Tuesday, restrained from coming into Court 10 of the Federal High Court, Abuja, venue of the proceeding. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order following an application to the effect by Mr Sunday Joseph, counsel for...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed an application filed by suspended DCP Abba Kyari seeking an order dismissing the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)’s charge against him. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that the court had the exclusive right and jurisdiction to hear drug...
An application filed by the DCP Abba Kyari and three other suspended police officers seeking to quash the criminal charges against them has been adjourned until March 22 for ruling. Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court, Abuja fixed the date after counsel for the National Drug Law...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed the fresh bail application filed by suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that Kyari had not given sufficient grounds for the application to be granted. The judge said the detained police officer failed to raise new...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, refused to grant the extradition application filed by the Federal Government for permission to extradite the suspended DCP Abba Kyari to the United States (US). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, described the extradition request as “an abuse of court process,” on...
Suspended DCP Abba Kyari, on Wednesday, prayed a Federal High Court in Abuja to grant him bail following the attack on Kuje Correctional Centre by Boko Haram who freed scores of their members. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports On 5 July, the Boko Haram breakaway faction Islamic...
Controversy has surrounded the whereabouts of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, after bandits on Tuesday attacked Kuje Correctional Centre Abuja, where he was kept. During the attack which lasted hours, some inmates were said to have escaped. The Kuje prison is famous for holding high-profile inmates and...
The U. S. Central District Court in California has again postponed the sentencing of a Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi, for the multi-million-dollar fraud charges he has pleaded guilty to. Arrested in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate (UAE) in June 2020, and subsequently flown to...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, convicted and sentenced Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne linked to suit filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) against suspended DCP Abba Kyari over alleged drug deal to two years imprisonment. Delivering judgment, Justice Emeka Nwite, held that having admitted...