The Federal Government, on Monday, prayed a Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a bail application filed by four suspects linked to notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji. Mr David Kaswe, lawyer who appeared for the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), told Justice Emeka Nwite not to grant the...
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, admitted Omoyele Sowore, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) to bail in the sum of N10 million with one surety in the like sum. Justice Musa Liman, in a ruling on Sowore’s bail application moved by his...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned ruling on a bail application filed by Omoyele Sowore in the alleged cybercrime offences until Thursday. Justice Musa Liman adjourned the matter on Wednesday after Sowore’s counsel, Marshall Abubakar, and the prosecution lawyer, Uddy Jonathan, argued their case for and against...
A former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Mr Omoyele Sowore, on Monday rejected the bail conditions imposed by police operatives at the Force Intelligence Department (FID). Sowere in a post earlier on Monday on his official “X”handle following his summon by the police regarding a viral...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, admitted the detained Singer, Darlington Achakpo, popularly known as Speed Darlington, to a N20 million bail with one surety in the like. Justice Ekerete Akpan gave the order in a ruling on the singer’s bail application moved by his lawyer, Marshall...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, admitted Olamide Thomas, who allegedly threatened Seyi Tinubu and the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, with death threat on social media, to a N10 million with one surety in like sum. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on Thomas’ bail...
Politician and former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has offered to fulfil the bail conditions for the release of human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi. Farotimi was granted bail by an Ekiti Magistrate Court in a defamation case involving Afe Babalola. The bail conditions require a N30 million bond,...
Human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi has been granted ₦30 million bail by a Magistrate court in Ekiti State. The court also asked Farotimi to provide 3 sureties with a landed property within the jurisdiction. He was told to refrain from media interview and to submit his international passport. The...
A Federal Capital Territory High Court on Thursday, admitted the immediate past Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello, to bail in the sum of N500 million with three sureties in like sum. Justice Maryann Anenih had, on Dec. 10, refused the ex-governor’s bail application, saying it was filed prematurely. While...
Justice Maryann Anenih o a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court on Tuesday struck out the bail application filed by former governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. Anenih struck out the application on the grounds that it was filed when the former governor was yet to be taken into...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has granted bail to rights activist and legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi. Farotimi was granted bail on Monday morning. The court granted him bail for ₦50m with a surety in the same amount. The surety must also provide a landed property...
An Abuja High Court, on Wednesday fixed Dec. 10 for ruling in the bail application filed by former governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello of Kogi and two others. Justice Maryann Anenih fixed the date after counsel for the prosecution, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, and the defence, Joseph Daudu, SAN, presented...
The four bloggers standing trial for the alleged blackmailing of Guaranty Trust Holding Company and its Group Chief Executive Officer, Segun Agbaje, have been denied bail because one of them, Precious Eze, was accused of being a serial offender. Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has admitted the co-defendants in alleged money laundering charge filed against the immediate-past Governor of Kogi, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to administrative bail. EFCC’s counsel, Jamiu Agoro, informed Justice Maryann Anenih of an Abuja High Court on Thursday upon resumed hearing in the...
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN has directed that the case file of the detained ‘Endbadgovernance protesters be transferred to his office. Fagbemi disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said that he noticed that the police have arraigned those...
The ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has called for swift release of 67 minors and other protesters detained by security agencies during the #EndBadGovernance protests in August. AAN made the call in a statement signed by its Country Director, Andrew Mamedu, on Saturday in Abuja. Mamedu said AAN condemned the recent...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a fresh bail application filed by the detained Binance Holdings Limited’s executive, Tigran Gambaryan. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, dismissed the application on the.ground that it constituted an abuse of court process. Justice Nwite held that Gambaryan’s request cannot...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, admitted Isaac Bristol, popularly known on his X handle as “PIDOM Nigeria,” to a N5 million bail with one surety in the like sum. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on his bail application moved by his lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, held...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted N10 million bail on each to the ten members of the #EndBadGovernance protesters who were charged with attempt to overthrow President Bola Tinubu between August 1 and 4th this year. While delivering ruling in their bail applications, Justice Emeka Nwite...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, admitted former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, to a N10 billion bail with two sureties. Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling on Mamman’s bail application moved by his counsel, Femi Ate, SAN, held that alternatively, the former minister shall enter...