The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned to Friday, May 19 for continuation of pre-hearing in the petition by presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi against the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu. LP National Chairman, Julius Abure was also in court on Wednesday. The...
Judiciary
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Due to the limited number of superior court judges, the Nasarawa State House of Assembly says on Tuesday next week, it would pass into law ‘A Bill For a Law to Amend the Number of Judges of the Superior Courts of Record Law 2001...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, says the Federal Government has recorded modest gains in the area of Justice reforms through legislations and judicial decisions. Malami disclosed this at the two-day body of Attorneys General conference on Tuesday, in Abuja. “The achievements...
The Lagos State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) says no fewer than 20 lawyers and legal professionals have volunteered to help the party and its candidates retrieve their allegedly stolen mandates. The party at a meeting with some of its candidates in the last general elections, said that...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Tuesday, gave reasons it resorted to the trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendants behind closed doors. Counsel for the NDLEA, Mr Sunday Joseph, told newsmen who were barred from covering the sitting shortly after the case was...
A Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Tuesday ordered that a 22-year-old man, Ibrahim Musa, who allegedly stabbed his biological mother, Hajara Mohammed, 50, be remanded in a correction centre.. The police charged Musa, who lives in Bachirawa Quarters Kano, with standing culpable homicide. The Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Rabi’a...
A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, on Tuesday ordered remand of afrobeat singer Seun Kuti for alleged assault on a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Olatubosun, held that Kuti should be remanded for 48 hours in police custody. She, however,...
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 U.S. ex-convict, Kolawole Erinle, charged with alleged 1.4 million dollars internet fraud on Monday denied the charges before an Ikeja Special Offences Court. Erinle, a real estate businessman and general contractor for Lafarge Cement told the court that he did not conspire with one Edward Dada (...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, filed a motion for stay of execution of the ruling by a Federal High Court, Lagos on 14 property and the sum of N400 million allegedly linked to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Justice Nicholas Oweibo had, on April 26,...
Ademoye Adewale, a cotton candy vendor, contracted by Chrisland School to prepare snacks for its students during an inter-house sports has told a corona inquest that he strongly believed that Whitney Adeniran was not electrocuted by his tools. Adewale, during his cross-examination, told the Coroner, Mrs Oyenike Fajana on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said the social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha), charged with N6 billion money laundering had been re-arrested. The EFCC counsel, Mr Suleiman Suleiman, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that the prosecution in collaboration with its international partners had...
The Federal High Court, Abuja has restrained the National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC) from further publishing a disclaimer, denying the issuance of certificate dated Jan.6, 2003 to the Enugu state Governor-elect, Mr Peter Mbah. Ruling on an ex parte application moved by Mr Emeka Ozoani, SAN, on behalf of...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Justice O.O.Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced one Abdulmalik Abdullateef to one year imprisonment for stealing. The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had, on April 27, 2023, arraigned 21-year-old Abdullateef...
A court in China has sentenced a 78-year-old U.S. citizen to life in prison on espionage charges. John Shing-Wan Leung, who has a U.S. passport and permanent residence in Hong Kong, was convicted by the court in the eastern city of Suzhou, near Shanghai, on Monday. Leung’s assets worth...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has sought partnership with Ethiopian Airlines Corporation, towards a successful conduct of its 2023 Annual General Conference. The President of NBA, Mr Yakubu Maikyau (SAN) who visited Ethiopian Airlines in Abuja on Saturday, said that the choice of the air carrier was in recognition...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A senior advocate of Nigeria, Murtala Abdul-Rasheed has condemned the venue of the Cross River State Election Petition Tribunal venue over what he called deteriorating state of the High Court. He described the Tribunal venue as very shameful and disturbing. The state High Court...
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has fixed July 3 for a case filed against Nigeria’s central government over the delay in the passage of the Bill on independent candidacy. The case was instituted by two Non-Governmental Organisations who are asking the court to hold Nigeria responsible for the...
Justice Hamza Muazu of an Abuja High Court on Friday held that the court has jurisdiction to entertain suit filed by some members of the Labour Party (LP). The suit is seeking the removal of the chairman of the party, Julius Abure, the National Organising Secretary, Mr Clement Ojukwu...
A divorce-seeking husband, Oyeyinka Adegoke, on Friday passionately pleaded with a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to save him from his wife, Wuraola, whom he alleged was diabolic. Adegoke stated in his testimony that his fortune had nosedived since he exchanged marital vows with Wuraola. He added...