Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has condemned the arson attack on Ilesa High Court building by yet-to-identified persons, describing the act as a criminal attack on the state judiciary. This is contained in a statement by Malam Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson for the governor, on Monday in Osogbo. Adeleke...
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Judges of the Federal High Court (FHC) of Nigeria will, on April 16, proceed on a two-weeks Easter vacation. The Chief Judge of FHC, Justice John Tsoho, announced this in a circular issued to newsmen on Sunday by the court’s Director of Information, Dr Catherine Christopher, in Abuja. The...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja Kogi State capital has set aside an earlier ruling that restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from receiving the recall process initiated by constituents of Kogi Central Senatorial District against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The Federal High Court in a landmark judgement...
A Federal High Court, sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, presided over by Justice Rosemary Oghogho-rie has convicted and sentenced Dr. Geraldine Orok Ita to prison for fraud. Ita was prosecuted by the Uyo Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on a twelve-count charge, bordering on forgery and diversion of fund to the tune of N127,686,594,l.87 (One Hundred and Twenty-seven Million, Six Hundred ...
A Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday struck out the criminal defamation suit against human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi. Justice Babs Kuewunmi struck out the case following an application for the withdrawal of the charge by the prosecution. The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, had arraigned Farotimi...
Counsel to the Chairman of the Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on Monday appeared before a Federal High Court in Lagos in protest of the charge. Mr Bode Olanipekun (SAN) told the court that he was protesting because the charge had not been served on...
A kingmaker in Emir Ado Bayero’s cabinet and his senior counsel, Alhaji Aminu Dan’Agundi, has said the faction would appeal the Court of Appeal judgement in a suit regarding Kano Emirship. In ruling on the matter, the Appeal Court said the Federal High Court, Kano does not have the...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, admitted Mr Akindele Akintoye, Founder and Chairman of Platform Capital Investment Partners Limited, to a N500 million bail with two sureties in like sum. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that though he was not unmindful of the serious nature...
The Federal High Court (FHC) will begin its Christmas vacation on Dec. 16.. The Chief Judge of FHC, Justice John Tsoho, made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday by the Director of Information in the office, Dr Catherine Christopher, in Abuja. The statement is titled: “Notification of 2024...
On 7 June 1911, the High Court of Australia decided a very interesting case. It arose from a publication issued two months earlier by a newspaper called The Mercury, published from Hobart, in Tasmania. Under the title “A Modest Judge”, the newspaper took aim at Mr Justice Higgins, a senior judge...
The Federal High Court (FHC) will, on Tuesday, resume its annual vacation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the annual vacation, which began on July 23, was expected to end on Sept. 13. Although normal court sitting was supposed to begin on Monday, however due to the...
The former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Anamekwe Nwabuoku, on Wednesday, begged a Federal High Court, Abuja, to give him more time to conclude the refund of the public funds allegedly siphoned. Nwabuoku and his co-defendant, Felix Nweke, in the 11-count money laundering charge preferred against them...
Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday, acquitted a former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji and his former aide, Oyebode Atoyebi, of 54-counts of money laundering.. Delivering judgment, Justice Liman held that the prosecution failed to discharge the...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday adjourned an amended money-laundering charge preferred against Ali Bello and his co-defendant, Daudu Sulaiman, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) until July 15. Justice James Omotosho adjourned the matter for trial continuation after the EFCC’s witness, Olom Otane...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, adjourned two separate money laundering suits filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against British national, James Nolan, bi and two other companies for judgment. Justice Donatus Okorowo adjourned the suits for judgment after counsel for the EFCC, Bala...
Hearing in two separate money laundering suits filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against British national, James Nolan, could not proceed on Wednesday at a Federal High Court, Abuja. The matter, which was scheduled for adoption of final written addresses of parties by Justice Donatus...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s money laundering charge filed against former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Adoke’s no-case submission, said he found that the EFCC...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday dismissed an application by the former governor of Anambra, Willie Obiano challenging the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) to prosecute him. Ruling on an application filed by Obiano challenging his trial on Thursday, Justice Inyang Ekwo said...
“Miyetti Allah” members storm Federal High Court, protest against detention of its President, Bodejo
“Miyetti Allah” members storm Federal High Court, protest against detention of its President, Bodejo
Members of the ”Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore”, on Wednesday, staged a peaceful protest at the Federal High Court, Abuja to demand the unconditional release of their detained president, Bello Bodejo. The protesters, who carried a big banner with inscription: “”Free Bello Bodejo,” gathered at the entrance gate of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nyesom Wike “over their failure to account for the alleged missing N40 trillion federal allocations meant for local governments in the...