A Federal High Court on Monday ordered that Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), charged with alleged sexual harassment be remanded in Kuje prison. Ndifon, who is being prosecuted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)...
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A Kabusa Grade I Area Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the remand of a tenant, Chris Okoye, 44, for beating his landlord. The Judge, Malam Abubakar Sadiq, gave the order after listening to the plea of the defendant. The defendant who lives at 2A Niger avenue villa...
A Chief Magistrate’ Court in Delta has granted order of interim injunction restraining Unity Bank Plc, from financial/contractual dealings with Oleh Community Development Association (OCDA) Delta, led by Chief Believe Alakri. Other entities restrained by the court from dealing with the embattled OCDA’s leadership are, Agip Oil Company...
A former of Minister of Women’s Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja, seeking to set aside the judgment of an FCT high court which barred her from holding public office. Justice Peter Kekemeke of the FCT High Court had on Dec. 18...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, gave Kano State government seven-day ultimatum to show cause why the ex-parte orders sought by the 44 local government areas (LGAs) of the state should not be granted. Justice Donatus Okorowo gave the order, in a ruling, shortly after counsel for...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday insisted that the 26 Rivers House of Assembly lawmakers who dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC) were no longer members of the state legislature. PDP National Legal Adviser, Adeyemi Ajibade, SAN, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, extended the Dec. 15 interim order stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from taking any action step against the 26 Rivers House of Assembly members who defected to All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice...
A 30-year old businessman, Francis Elijah, was on Thursday brought before a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stabbing a man with broken bottle. Elijah, who resides at the Ungwan Pama area of Kaduna, is facing a charge of assault. The Prosecutor, Insp. Chidi Leo, told the court...
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of a 24-year-old housewife, Hafsat Surajo, in a Correctional Center for allegedly stabbing her househelp, Nafiu Hafizu, 38, to death. The defendant, who lives at Unguwa Uku Quarters Kano, is standing trial on a two-count charge of...
A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has been released from Kuje Correctional Centre after his lawyers perfected his bail conditions. His lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mathew Burkaa, confirmed this to Channels Television. Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory...
No fewer than six elders in Rivers have dragged President Bola Tinubu and others to the Federal High Court, Abuja, for allegedly compelling Gov. Siminilaya Fubara to sign what they describe as an unconstitutional agreement. The plaintiffs, in the petition sighted by the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN)...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – In a legal battle unfolding at the FCT High Court, DOAS Director Dr. Baba Gana Adam, has finds himself embroiled in a N500 million libel suit, accused of defaming businessman Dr. Donald Amangbo. The dispute stems from a press statement featured in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out a suit praying the court to compel the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to investigate and prosecute Mr Peter Obi over allegations bordering on asset declaration breach. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a short ruling, threw out the suit for...
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a 58-year-old herbalist, Nurudeen Ibrahim, to five years imprisonment with hard labour for fraud. Ibrahim was arraigned before the court on Aug. 2, 2022, on three count charge of conspiracy, fraud and indecent assault. Delivering judgment, the Magistrate, Mr Olatomiwa Daramola...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, granted former terrorist negotiator, Tukur Mamu’s plea to have access to his own personal physician over alleged deteriorating health condition. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, ordered that Mamu’s medical doctor should be allowed to treat him subject to the supervision...
A businessman, Nasiru Yunusa told an Upper Area Court in Kubwa, FCT, that he will grant his wife, Aisha Hamisu a divorce if she pays him N1 million. Yunusa and Hamisu, got married according to Islamic law sometime in 2021 and is blessed with a 13-month-old daughter. Earlier, Hamisu...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting fresh election to fill the seats of the 26 Rivers House of Assembly members who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Donatus Okorowo, who gave...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “over the failure to arrest and prosecute suspected perpetrators of grave electoral offences in the recently concluded off-cycle governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa...
In the first part of this write-up, we saw how in 1983, the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), afraid of defeat, capitalised on Shehu Shagari’s perceived likeability and reversed the election timetable and started with a vote for the president. They relied on what they christened...
A lawyer, Faruk Khamagam, has called on the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to respect court judgments and orders affirming Alhaji Faruk Abubakar as the valid managing director (MD) of Abuja Markets Management Limited (AMML). Khamagam, who was Abubakar’s counsel, made the call on...