A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed a suit filed by Abba Maina, linked to Boko Haram activities, against the Department of State Services (DSS). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, held that the suit, which sought detained Marina’s release, was an abuse of court process since...
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An FCT High Court on Wednesday admitted the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele to bail in the sum of N300 million. Justice Hamza Muazu also ordered Emefiele to produce two sureties in like sum. Muazu ordered that the sureties must have certificates of occupancy and...
The Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday in Abuja re-arraigned Husseni Ismaila (aka Maitangaran), the alleged mastermind of the 2014 multiple bomb attacks in Kano at the Federal High Court. When the matter was called, the prosecuting counsel, Mr E.A. Aduda, told the court that the DSS...
As the strike by Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) enters second day, court activities at the Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja were going on smoothly. A check by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Showed that judges, staff, lawyers and litigants in the high-rise...
Former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Benjamin Dikki, on Tuesday told an FCT high court that EFCC operatives forced him to make a commitment to refund N1 billion. Dikki is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), alongside his company, Kebna Studio...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has given former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, until Jan. 25 to appear in court to explain circumstances surrounding the 53 million dollar-judgment debt arising from the Pars Club refund. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a short ruling on...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Nov. 11, Bayelsa governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva, says his disqualification by an Abuja High Court, won’t affect his chances of winning the election. Sylva spoke for the first time after the court ruling at a political rally in Agoro...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has not released Nnamdi Kanu, the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a competent source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. The source said on Sunday that contrary to reports in a section of the media, the...
Sen. Adamu Bulkachuwa has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), the Department of State Services (DSS) and others of colluding with his political enemies to harass him. Bulkachuwa told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, in a suit filed against the...
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...
No fewer than 60 legal practitioners on Monday, approached a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory to begin committal proceedings against the Department of State Services (DSS). The lawyers said the suit was hinged on what they described as violation of multiple judgments and orders of court directing...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed July 21 for arraignment of Sen. Stella Oduah and others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after EFCC’s counsel, Hassan Liman, SAN, prayed the court to allow the defendants to take their plea, having...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari, over his declaration of Aisha Dahiru, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, as governor in the March 18 poll. Justice Donatus Okorowo made the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, in a landmark judgment, has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about USD$5 billion Abacha loot by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari.” The court...
Mr Timipre Sylva, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 11 governorship election in Bayelsa, says he was never elected as the state’s governor on two occasions. Sylva, the immediate-past Minister of State for Petroleum, refuted the allegations that he was previously elected as Bayelsa...
An FCT High court on Tuesday fixed ruling in the enforcement of fundamental rights suit filed by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to July 13. Justice Hamza Muazu fixed the date after listening to submissions made by parties in the matter. In...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, again suspended the planned arraignment of a former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah and others on alleged N7.9 billion fraud charges, citing security reasons, According to the judge, the court will not continue...
The Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the DSS has been ordered to immediately grant the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, unrestricted access to his lawyers and family members as it is within his constitutional right. Emefiele was arrested by...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Corruption (ICPC) on Thursday arraigned Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), his three sons and a daughter in-law . They were arraigned in a 17-count charge bordering on official corruption, abuse of office and forgery.before Justice...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to pay Media Rights Agenda (MRA) N1 million as damages for wrongful denial of access to information and directed the apex bank to also make available to the organization...