Ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s national convention holding on Saturday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja, to declare the planned exercise unconstitutional and illegal. The PDP, In a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/389 2022, also sought a court order deregistering the APC as...
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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed the 418 million dollars Paris Club debt suit filed by the 36 state governments against the Federal Government. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgement, dismissed the suit for lacking in merit. “I do not see any merit in this case on...
Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of an Ikeja High Court on Friday fixed May 6 to rule on an application for virtual testimony in the trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi for alleged N754 million fraud. The application was filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The News Agency of Nigeria...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will make decisions on court orders and motions regarding the defection of Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi and his Deputy, Chief Kelechi Igwe, next week. The commission said this in a statement by Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information...
A woman identified as wife of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, on Monday, fainted at the Federal High Court in Abuja. She slumped on the ground shortly after trial Justice Emeka Nwite deferred ruling on applications that DCP Kyari and six other persons facing drug...
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN) has described as false the media reports that his office had conclusively exonerated Abba Kyari. The clarification was made in a statement issued on Sunday by Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations,...
An investigating officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Shehu Shuaibu, has narrated how the sum of N1.5billion was fraudulently transferred from the Ministry of External Affairs account to Joint Trust Dimension Nigeria Limited account allegedly belonging to former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, according to SaharaReporters. In...
A Yaba Magistrates’ court in Lagos on Friday, ordered that a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Omininikoron, be remanded for 30 days in Ikoyi custodial centre for alleged murder and rape of 22-year-old girl, Oluwabamise Ayankole. Details coming soon….
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, fixed April 8 for adoption of final written addresses in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara and others. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after parties in the suit confirmed joining issues with...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday prayed the Federal High Court, Abuja to transfer the fresh trial of former Abia governor and two others in an alleged N7.1 billion fraud to Lagos. The application seeking the transfer was brought pursuant to Sections 19, 22 and 45...
An Upper Area Court in Makurdi on Thursday ordered that a herbalist, Eze Okereke, 41, be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged defiling a 15-year-old deaf-mute neighbour’s daughter. The police charged Okereke with defilement. However, when the case came up for mention no plea was taking for want...
No fewer than 20 lawyers have expressed desire to defend the suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Musa Shafiu, a legal practitioner, who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday, on behalf of other lawyers, said the lawyers are ready to defend Kyari in a suit filed by the National Drug Law...
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has fixed March 31, June 8 and June 9 for trial of a former vice chairman and six councillors of the Kuje Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory. Mr Duda Ismaila, Mr Yunusa Salihu, Mr Dantani Musa, Mr Maikasuwa Magaji, Mr Samson...
A medical doctor, Mistura Shogunle, on Wednesday narrated before an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court how a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in her neighbourhood. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Shogunle testified at the trial of a 20-year-old fashion designer, Rasheed...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The trial of Bar Ugoji Nwabueze over alleged impersonation as President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Cross River Chapter was on Tuesday stalled. This followed the inability of Nwabueze’s counsel, Prof. Jacob Dada to provide the authority he cited in the last sitting. The Inspector General of...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out the motion filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to further detain suspended DCP Abba Kyari and six others for 14 days. Justice Zainab Abubakar struck out the application after counsel to the NDLEC, S. S. Obot, informed...
The Government of the Republic of Benin has released Yoruba Nation Activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Ighoho. Professor Banji Akintoye, a Yoruba Leader and Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide’s Umbrella Body of Yoruba Self-determination Groups, and Professor Wale Adeniran, a French Language Expert/Deputy Alana of...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday, stopped President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Senate President from tampering with the newly amended Electoral Act 2022. Justice Inyang Ekwo in a ruling on an ex parte application by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) agreed that the...
Mrs Bukola Ajayi, a legal practitioner, says adultery is the most common reason divorce-seeking spouses have cited for the dissolution of their marriages. “Ninety-five per cent of those seeking a divorce in courts made allegations of adultery against their spouses,’’ she said. Adultery is the most difficult breach of trust...
A Los Angeles judge has granted reality TV star, Kim Kardashian’s request to be declared legally single from rapper Kanye West, after nearly eight years of marriage. The businesswoman and star of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” filed for divorce a year ago, citing irreconcilable differences with West, who...