A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a suit seeking to invalidate the nomination of Sen. Lawal Usman as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate for the Feb. 25 Kaduna State Central Senatorial election. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that the suit, filed by Mr Ibrahim...
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Wednesday, described as despicable, the July 25 altercation between the Department of State Security Service and officials of Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) before a Federal High Court Lagos. NBA President, Mr Yakubu Maikyau (SAN) has consequently called for disciplinary measures of officers involved...
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Tuesday fixed Sept. 22, to deliver judgment on a fundamental right enforcement suit filed by the former governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the court on July 7, restrained the Kano State...
Gov. Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has closed his defence against the All Progressives Congress (APC), with the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Abdullahi Baffa-Bichi, as a sole witness. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the petitioner, APC is challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, reaffirmed its order, directing the security agencies in the country to provide “maximum security” to Mr Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s candidate in the Nov. 11 governorship election in Kogi State. Justice Inyang Ekwo restated the order at the beginning of hearing...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) to take over the N5 billion suit the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) preferred against Sen. Stella Oduah and others after their arraignment. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the order shortly...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has elected to hear a N1.5 billion defamation suit brought against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) by former Governor of Akwa Ibom, Victor Attah. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, dismissed the preliminary objection raised by the AGF, challenging the court’s jurisdiction to...
Former Aviation Minister, Sen. Stella Oduah, and others on Friday, pleaded not guilty to a N5 billion fraud charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Oduah and eight others were arraigned by the EFCC before Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja....
One Mr Matthew Uyangha has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 13-year-old orphan (name withheld). Uyangha was sentenced by Justice Blessing Egwu of the Calabar Division of the High Court of Cross River on Thursday, July 20 The rapist had drugged and kidnapped the...
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the report of the resignation of a member of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), Justice Moses Ugo, describing it as false and misleading. Speaking to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, the Chief Registrar of the Court, Mr Umar Bangari dismissed the report...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) subpoena witness, Mr Victor Ude, on Thursday tendered Gov Peter Mbah’s NYSC letters of redeployment, deferment and reinstatement to continue his NYSC programme after completing his part two in Law school. Ude tendered the documents before the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal hearing the petition...
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to grant the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, access to a medical doctor of his choice on grounds that he requires urgent ear surgery amidst his...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday, closed its case against the All Progressive Congress (APC) without calling any witness at the Kano State Election Petition Tribunal. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the petitioner APC is challenging INEC for declaring Abba Yusuf of New Nigeria...
The Managing Director of Davenchris Ventures LTD, Mr Christian Igbo, on Wednesday, asked the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to obey a court judgment and pay N29 million balance of the contract sum legitimately awarded and executed by him. Igbo, who made the call while addressing...
The National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Kogi on Wednesday reserved judgment in a petition filed by Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Abubakar Sadiku-Ohere of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Akpoti-Uduaghan, who lost the Kogi Central...
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has stopped the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission from investigating alleged missing N100 billion from the state’s Local Government Council accounts. The court, presided over by Justice S.A. Amobeda, on Tuesday also stopped the anti-graft commission and its agents from...
Mr Raphael Chima, a businessman, on Tuesday dragged his wife, Joy, before a Customary Court in Jikwoyi because she frequently beats him. He made the allegation in a divorce petition he filed against her before the court. “My wife physically abuses and harasses me. She slaps me at the slightest...
A Nigerian, Mr Chianugo Peter, has sought a 150 million dollars compensation from Google and GoDaddy.com over allegations bordering on the shutdown of his YouTube Audio domain name after eight years of promotional and marketing works. Peter, through his lawyer, Emmanuel Ekpenyong of Fred-Young & Evans LP, filed the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has upheld the objection of Mr Aliyu Abubakar, a co-defendant in the ongoing money laundering trial of Mr Mohammed Adoke, former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling after the trial-within-trial, held that the extra-judicial statements...