African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Monday condemned the continued detention of former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, following reports that authorities denied him access to his doctors and prevented his wife from delivering food to him in custody. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji...
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*Remains in ICPC custody following Kaduna high court’s earlier denial of bail application The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to a former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, in the sum of N100 million with one surety in like sum. The former governor, who admitted on national...
Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday granted bail to activist and social media commentator, Justice Chidiebere, popularly known as “Justice Crack,” in the sum of ₦5 million. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik ruled that the bail condition must be supported by one surety who resides within the court’s jurisdiction and...
A house wife, Haliru Halima Umar, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for pleading guilty to charges of unlawful possession of 302 rounds live ammunition of AK-47 rifles brought against her by the Department of State Service (DSS). She was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by Justice...
The bail application filed by Chidiebere Justice Mark, popularly known as Justice Crack, on Thursday suffered a setback at the Federal High Court in Abuja after two lawyers, Femi Balogun and Marshall Abubakar, clashed over who to represent him. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik had, on May 4, fixed today for...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed an appeal against the judgment delivered on 5 May 2026 by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, which awarded ₦100 million in damages in favour of officials of the Department of State Services (DSS), a judgment SERAP considers...
President of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Alhaji Bello Bodejo, is reportedly facing mounting pressure to abandon his ambition of contesting the Taraba Central Senatorial seat ahead of the 2027 general elections. Bodejo, a frontline aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, viewed a video- recorded statement by Sheikh Sani Abdulkadir, the sixth defendant in the ongoing trial of persons accused of conspiring to overthrow the government of President Bola Tinubu. In the recording, the Sheikh, who admitted receiving money to pray for...
Tension has continued to trail the political atmosphere in Taraba State following the alleged arrest of Senate aspirant and National President of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Dr. Bello Bodejo, by suspected operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Jalingo. The Bodejo Campaign...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has expressed deep concern over what it described as the increasing use of criminal defamation laws by the administration of President Bola Tinubu to target activists, journalists, bloggers and other citizens for peacefully exercising their fundamental rights. SERAP’s reaction followed Friday’s ruling by...
Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday dismissed the no-case submission made by politician-activist, Omoyele Sowore, in the charge of Cyberbullying President Bola Tinubu brought against him by the Department of the State Services (DSS). The Court upheld DSS’ charges against Sowore for...
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), has rapped the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), for berating the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over Tuesday’s judgement awarding N100 million to two operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) defamed by the NGO....
The Northern Ethnic Youth Group Assembly (NEYGA) has rapped the The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) for describing as “a travesty” Tuesday’s judgement of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), awarding N100 million in damages against the NGO. In addition to the N100 million, the...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday found the Incorporated Trustees of Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) liable in a defamation suit filed by two operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).The court ordered SERAP to pay the sum of N100 million...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will on Tuesday deliver judgment in a N5.5 billion defamation suit filed by two operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) against the Incorporated Trustees of Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). The group had on September 9,...
Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja is set to deliver its judgment tomorrow Tuesday, 5 May 2026 in the N5 billion defamation lawsuit the Department of State Services (DSS) filed against SERAP following the unlawful invasion of our Abuja office by the DSS. SERAP had on 9 September 2024...
Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday arraigned Chidiebere Justice Mark aka Justice Crack, before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on a three-count charge bordering on cybercrime. Mark, who was arrested by the Nigerian Army over the weekend, was accused of circulating false information in a viral...
The prosecution in the case of four persons standing trial for the April 2026 killings in Angwa Rukuba, Jos North LGA of the state, on Thursday told a High Court of Plateau State that allowing the suspects leave the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) was a...
Somewhere in Nigeria today, a market is open because an arms shipment was intercepted last week. A village is quieter because a bandit kingpin is in a courtroom. A child went to school this Monday morning in the Southeast for the first time in years without fear. These things...
Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday arraigned former Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State for allegedly intercepting the phone conversations of the telephone line of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu. El-Rufai, who was arraigned before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja on...