Prince Adefarakan Adebambo dragged the Inspector General of Police, police commissioner for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Divisional Police Officer of Trademore Police Station, Abuja, Pento Guard Security Limited, the Registered Trustees of Redeemers Excellent Men Housing Foundation and Mr. Salako Solomon, to court over his arrest, detention and violation of his fundamental rights. Adebambo is the Applicant while the Inspector General of Police; Commissioner of Police, FCT, Abuja; Divisional Police Officer, Trademore Police Station; Pento Guard Security Limited; Registered Trustees of Redeemers Excellent Men Housing Foundation and Mr Salako Solomon are the 1st to 6th Respondents respectively. The…
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The Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission, PCACC has hired the services of Mr Femi Falana, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, to lead the commission’s counsels over the alleged dollar bribery video involving the former governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje before the Federal High Court sitting in Kano. The Commission’s counsel, Usman Fari dropped the hint while addressing with newsmen Fari who boasted that the commission is ready for the court case noted that at the next adjourned date, the learned senior counsel, Falana will lead the team of lawyers. According to him, “The commission has engaged the learned senior…
Atiku blackmailing Judiciary, yet to accept defeat – Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has said the alleged attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to blackmail the judiciary will fail. Tinubu said Atiku’s latest comment has shown that he was yet to recover from the shock defeat of the 2023 presidential election. He charged Atiku to provide evidence of his administration trying to undermine the judiciary. In a statement by his spokesman, Dele Alake, the president said Atiku’s claims were full of innuendos, insinuations and outright lies. According to Alake: “We have read the laughable and jejune…
James Onanefe Ibori, former Delta State governor, has expressed sadness over the confiscation of over £100 million from him. A judge in London on Friday ordered the confiscation of 101.5 million pounds ($130.34 million) from the former governor who was convicted of fraud and money laundering in London in 2012. Judge David Tomlinson of Southwark Crown Court said Ibori should pay the sum immediately or face an eight-year jail sentence. In response to the order, Ibori claimed that he and those close to him were being persecuted, vowed to challenge the order. “Albert Einstein is quoted as saying that the…
The Nasarawa State Judicial Service Commission has called for expression of interest and nomination of qualified Candidates for appointment as Judge of the high Court of Nasarawa State. In a notice signed by the executive secretary of the Nasarawa State Judicial Service Commission, Yahaya Yakubu Shafa, interested candidates should have at least ten years post call experience as provided for under Section 271(3) of the 1999 Constitution and the Revised National Judicial Council Guidelines for Appointment of Judicial Officers. Candidates should forward ten copies of the expression of interest; signed curriculum vitae and credentials to the office of the Executive…
Lawyers, journalists, others halted from witnessing terrorist negotiator, Tukur Mamu trial. Lawyers, and litigants, including journalists, were, on Friday, ordered to vacate the Courtroom 7 of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja where the trial of Tukur Mamu, was holding. When the matter was called, E.A Kaswe, counsel from the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), who prosecutes the case on behalf of the Federal Government, told the court that their witnesses were in court for the trial. Kaswe then urged Justice Inyang Ekwo to enforce the order granted the prosecution on Wednesday when the matter came up…
The court again mandates security agencies to protect Kogi Guber candidate for SDP, Ajaka Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, reaffirmed his order on security agencies in the country to provide “maximum security” to the candidate of the Social Democratic Party SDP, in the forthcoming governorship election in Kogi State, Mr Murtala Ajaka. Justice Ekwo reaffirmed the order at the commencement of hearing in the suit instituted by Ajaka against the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello and others. The judge warned that since all the parties have submitted themselves before the court,…
Police in Lagos on Thursday arraigned a woman, Charity Iroakazi, 28, at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly having 36 berets with Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) insignia on them in her possession. The defendant, an artisan who resides at 14 Nurudeen St., Ojo, Lagos, is being tried for conspiracy and unlawful possession of IPOB berets, NAN reports. The prosecutor, Insp Samuel Mishozunnu, told the court that the offences were committed on June 16 at Mosalasi Bus Stop, Satellite Town, Lagos. Mishozunnu said that the police on patrol intercepted a rider carrying a big black nylon in his…
The Court of Appeal has described as “fake” news that a member of the five-member panel handling petitions seeking to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu, has resigned. The social media has been awash with posts, claiming that Justice Boloukuoromo Ugo had resigned, citing demands to kneecap democracy by siding with President Tinubu in the tribunal’s decision. The post had earlier claimed, “In a shocking and unprecedented move, Nigerian Justice Boloukuoromo M. Ugo has resigned from the bench, citing demands from the executive branch that he believes would destroy the country’s democracy. “In a statement, Justice Ugo said that…
Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission has been stopped from investigating the alleged missing N100 billion from Local Government Council accounts. The alleged misappropriation of funds occurred during the administration of former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje. According to News Agency of Nigeria, The Federal High Court in Kano, presided over by Justice S.A. Amobeda, stopped the investigation on Tuesday. The judge also halted the Commission and its agents from inviting, investigating, arresting, and intimidating Local Government chairmen in the state, pending the determination of the Applicants’ Motion on Notice. The applicants before the Court are 15 local government chairmen in…
Ecobank vows to appeal judgement in favour of Honeywell Ecobank Nigeria Limited has said it will appeal a judgement by the Federal High Court in Lagos, presided over by Hon. Justice Liman, which delivered a judgment in favour of Honeywell Flour against the bank and ordered it to pay N72bn. While saying the judgment could not stand the test of time, the bank said it “will vigorously challenge same, and remain confident that it can reverse this judgment at the higher courts.” It was gathered that the instant suit was an action filed in 2018 for the enforcement of the…
As Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) called more witnesses to testify before the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, the state capital, on Monday, several inconsistencies and similarities in the witnesses’ statements have continued to trail the proceedings. A witness, Mrs Mulikat Yemi, from Ota, while admitting similarities in her statement with another witness, Balogun Olanrewaju, during cross examination by the counsel to INEC, including same error and omission in paragraph 6 of their statements, told tribunal to question her lawyer for the repetition. One other witness, Thomas Abiodun, a photographer, who appeared before the panel for the party from…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, disowned a lawyer, Ibrahim Mohammed, who filed a fresh charge bordering on perjury and document falsification against Stella Oduah in the name of the anti-graft agency. Upon resumed hearing, though Mohammed and Oduah were not in court, Okonofua informed that the report of the investigation carried out by the anti-corruption agency was out. While informing the court about the outcome of the investigation, she said that, “the counsel, Ibrahim Mohammed, was de-seconded back to Nigeria police on 14 November, 2022, and he was not sent to represent the EFCC to prosecute…
The Enugu State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the March 18 election, Frank Nweke Jr, has withdrawn his petition against Governor Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Nweke, who came third in the governorship election with 17,983 votes as against Mbah’s 160,895 votes, announced the withdrawal of the petition at the Enugu State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Sunday, through an oral application by his counsel, R.A.C.E Achara. Confirming the withdrawal, Nweke Jr., who was a minister during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, said he decided to withdraw the petition against…
The first respondent, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in the case filed by Dr Nentawe, has been scheduled to open its defence today (Monday). The APC candidate is challenging Mutfwang’s victory on three grounds; that PDP doesn’t have structure and therefore could not file a candidate for the governorship election; that INEC didn’t comply with the Electoral Act and guidelines as of the time of conducting the election and the exclusion of 14 polling units from Naraguta B Ward in Jos North LGA. Yilwatda, the APC candidate, spent three weeks defending his petition before the state election tribunal. An…
The 2023 Annual Court Vacation for High Courts in the FCT, will commence on the Monday, 17th July 2023. In a notice titled ANNUAL COURT VACATION, the Chief Judge of the FCT reads “In exercise of the powers conferred on me by Order 52 Rule 4 of the Rules of this Court, I hereby declare that the Court will proceed on Annual Vacation beginning from Monday, 17th of July, 2023 to Friday, 8th September, 2023. “The Court will resume for the New Legal Year on Monday, 11th September, 2023.”
Renowned constitutional lawyer and rights activist, Dr Kayode Ajulo, OON, has strongly criticized the internal wrangling among Ondo State political appointees warning them against using Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s health condition as a means to bring disrepute to the image of the government and good people of the State. In a statement, Ajulo described their actions as a national embarrassment and a result of an unhealthy thirst for power that hinders effective collaboration in the Governor’s absence. Ajulo emphasized that Ondo’s appointees and politicians should refrain from capitalizing on Governor Akeredolu’s health challenges to create chaos in the state. He also…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it is investigating a shooting incident which involved it’s officers during the raid of a drug joint at Okpanam area of Asaba, Delta state, which resulted in the death of a child. It was gathered, the child was hit by a stray bullet and succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment in a hospital. The agency issued a statement through its Spokesman, Femi Babafemi on Saturday, said the Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) after receiving initial briefings from the agency’s Delta State Command, set up a panel of top officials…
Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma has announced a N10,000 salary raise for civil servants in the state to serve as an intervention to cushion the effect of the removal of fuel subsidy. The governor made this known during a stakeholder meeting held at Rockview Hotel Owerri on Saturday. It should be recalled that there has been an ongoing dialogue between federal government and NLC/TUC on what should be definite national minimum wage. More details later…
Hon. Justice (Prof.) Elizabeth Oji of the Lagos Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to immediately return Mojisola’s International Passport seized from her while investigating the case reported to it by the Access Bank. The Court dismissed Mojisola’s allegation of wrongful employment termination and N10m damages claim against Access Bank for lacking merit. From facts, the claimant- Mojisola had submitted that Access Bank placed her on suspension for alleged negligence and she was taken before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for investigation and prosecution; while the investigation was ongoing, the…
Erstwhile senator representing Kogi West, Smart Adeyemi, has vowed to approach the Court of Appeal to void the governorship primary election recently conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State. Adeyemi said he was dissatisfied with the judgment given yesterday by a Federal High Court in Abuja, in which the court upheld the primary election that produced Ahmed Usman Ododo as the APC candidate in the Kogi State governorship election scheduled for November 11. He insisted that the trial court failed to evaluate the proof of evidence that was placed before it by the parties, insisting that there…
Justice Hamza Muazu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, has issued a one week ultimatum to the Department of State Services, DSS, to either charge the detained suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele to court or set him free. The Judge issued the order on Thursday while delivering ruling in a fundamental human rights suit instituted against the DSS and others by Emefiele. Justice Muazu held that the DSS has power to carry out its constitutional duties of making arrest, detention and ensuring prevention of internal crime, but however said…
A Shariah Court in Kano on Wednesday ordered that a 25-year-old man, Ahmed Abdulkadir, who pleaded guilty to stealing a coldroom compressor unit worth N60,000, be remanded in a correctional centre. The police charged Mr Abdulkadir, who lives in Fagge Quarters, Kano, with theft. The Judge, Umar Lawal-Abubaka, adjourned the matter until July 25 for summary trial. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Abdullahi Wada, told the court that the complainant, Nura Muhammed, who also resides in Fagge Quarters, reported the matter at the Fagge Police Station, Kano, on July 6. Mr Wada alleged that the defendant entered the complainant’s shop and…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit instituted by a Kogi governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Smart Afolabi Adeyemi, against the emergence of the candidate of the party, Usman Ododo, at the last primary election of the party. The Court on Wednesday held that the suit lacked merit and substance to warrant granting requests made against Ododo and APC. Delivering judgment in the suit marked “FHC/CS/556/2023 in Smart Adeyemi v. APC & 2 Ors”, Justice James Kolawole Omotosho held that Adeyemi’s allegations were criminal, as he alleged that elections did…
A 38-year-old security guard, Francis Samaila was on Monday, docked in an Upper Area Court Kubwa, FCT, for alleged negligent conduct. The Prosecution Counsel, Mr John Okpa told the court that the defendant was employed by the complainant, Mr Godswill Aadum as a security guard to safeguard items in Kubwa Plaza. Okpa alleged that the defendant abandoned the plaza and as a result electrical cables worth N1 million, being the property of the complainant were stolen on March 7. The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of section 198 of the Penal Code. The defendant pleaded not guilty to…
The Adamawa State governorship candidate during the March 18 gubernatorial election, Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as “Binani,” has, again, sued the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the Commission’s nullification of her declaration as governor of the state. Binani contested the Adamawa governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC. According to News Agency of Nigeria, Binani, through her counsel, Michael Aondoaka, SAN, filed a fresh suit before Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, Abuja. In the ex-parte motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/935/2023, she sued the INEC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Governor Ahmadu…
Senator representing Zamfara West and former Governor of the state, Abdulaziz Yari, has regained his freedom from the Department of State Services (DSS). “Senator Yari, who was detained and quizzed by operatives of the DSS, was released last night around 11pm,” a Sunday Sun news report claimed. The former Governor who strongly bidded for the Senate Presidency, went to the office of the DSS on Thursday and was detained thereafter,” the report adds. Information about why the former Governor was invited is still unknown as the secret service has not made any official statement on the arrest and interrogation. Meanwhile,…
A journalist, Cyriacus Njoku, has demanded the sum of N50 million in compensation against former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, over the reward in a book written in his honour. Njoku, in a suit before an FCT High Court, is contending that after he proposed to the ex-lawmaker to write the book, ‘The Peoples Lawmaker’ in 2021, he gave him a cheque of N500,000 to publish same and wrote the forward to the book. Njoku claims that both of them agreed to share the proceeds of the launch of the book, but to his surprise, the ex-lawmaker presented another book ‘Standing…
Senator Abdulaziz Yari has spent two nights languishing in the dungeon of Nigeria’s iron-fisted State Security Service. According to Peoples Gazette, the arrest was initiated after multiple telephone calls to his line from President Bola Tinubu which rang through last month. The Gazette also reported that an insider source hinted in separate disclosures on Friday that the SSS arrested Mr Yari on Thursday morning and detained him for “thinking the president is a joke,” as one official put it. Both sources obtained The Gazette’s commitment to keeping them anonymous to bounce potential backlash from the authority. “He was asked why…
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, CFR, has endorsed the judgement of an Edo State High court which ordered Madam Enoghayin and Miss Otasowie Ogiemwonyi to take legal and physical possession of late Mr Washington Osaretin Ogiemwonyi’s property known as 7A, Upper Sokponba Road in Benin City, after granting approval for his burial rites in accordance with Benin customs and tradition. Following the demise of Mr Washington Osaretin Ogiemwonyi, disagreement broke out between his immediate and extended family members over the contended property and his burial, even as his corpse was left in the morgue for 23 months arising…
