FCT Minister, Alhaji Muhammad Bello, and the Federal Housing Authority, have asked a High Court to dismiss a suit challenging an illegal demolition of the residence of Abuja socialite, Joseph Kpokpogri. Other Defendants in the suit are the Federal Capital Territory Administration and the Federal Capital Development Authority, Abuja...
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and five university students have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, asking the court to “declare unlawful the refusal by the Federal Government to meet ASUU’s demands, which has occasioned the prolonged strike action and violated the students’ right to quality education.”...
The PDP on Thursday prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja to make an order disqualifying Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara from participating in the state’s 2023 governorship election over alleged certificate forgery. The PDP, in an originating summons filed before Justice Inyang Ekwo, also prayed for an order disqualifying...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed Sept. 14 to hear a suit filed by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Justice Ahmed Mohammed fixed the date after granting a motion on notice for an extension of...
David Ukpo, the kidney donor, has urged a Federal High Court, Abuja to set aside its order made on July 1, directing some agencies of government and banks to release his biodata to former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice. Ukpo, who is currently in the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed the fresh bail application filed by suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that Kyari had not given sufficient grounds for the application to be granted. The judge said the detained police officer failed to raise new...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, refused to grant the extradition application filed by the Federal Government for permission to extradite the suspended DCP Abba Kyari to the United States (US). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, described the extradition request as “an abuse of court process,” on...
Officials of the Execution Unit of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, working with officers of the Nigeria Police Force, on Tuesday, seized vehicles belonging to Senator Andy Uba in his Abuja residence over a N50 million debt resulting from a loan he took from Oranto Petroleum...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, also known as Wadume, and two others to seven years imprisonment. The presidinh judge, Justice Binta Nyako, convicted Wadume of two of the 13-count charges against him and two others. Aliyu Dadje, a police inspector, who was...
An FCT High Court on Wednesday adjourned until Oct 4 trial of suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and three others for alleged N109.5 billion fraud. Other defendants are Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited. The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) charged...
First Bank Limited has reopened its headquarters (Coomassie House) located at the Central Business District, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the office was on Aug. 4, sealed by the FCT High Court Enforcement Unit over failure to comply with a garnishee order. A garnishee order...
A lawsuit seeking the disqualification of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), from contesting the 2023 elections for allegedly presenting the forged certificate will be heard by a Federal High Court in Abuja on September 7. The Plaintiffs, who are four chieftains of the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture to withdraw the threat to sanction the BBC and Daily Trust over their documentaries on terrorism in the country, whether through the...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Thursday, July 28, announced that it found a total of N540 million in the account of a public primary school teacher with a salary of N76,000. Premium Times reports that the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has...
Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to immediately release three of his domestic workers. Ejiofor, who made the call on Friday in Abuja at a news briefing, listed the...
An FCT High Court in Abuja on Thursday adjourned until Aug.10 and Aug. 11 the trial of suspended Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and three others charged with alleged N109.5 billion fraud. Other defendants are Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited. The...
An FCT High Court will on Thursday rule in the bail applications filed by the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and three others over alleged N109.5 billion fraud. Other defendants are Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited. The Economic and Financial Crimes...
The Federal High Court Abuja on Friday issued a seven-day ultimatum to a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Rotimi Jacobs, to show cause why he should not be disqualified from further prosecuting former Abia governor, Orji Uzor Kalu. Kalu, who is serving as a senator, is standing trial...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) says it will on Friday, arraign the former Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Ahmed Idris Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC said this in a statement on Thursday, in Abuja. Uwujaren said the former...
Suspended DCP Abba Kyari, on Wednesday, prayed a Federal High Court in Abuja to grant him bail following the attack on Kuje Correctional Centre by Boko Haram who freed scores of their members. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports On 5 July, the Boko Haram breakaway faction Islamic...