Supreme Court To Deliver Judgment In Osun Guber Election Dispute May 9
The contested governorship election in Osun State was held on July 16, and the Supreme Court on Monday set a decision-making date of Tuesday, May 9. After hearing arguments from the parties engaged in the case, the supreme court set a 24-hour deadline for the judgment's delivery. The incumbent governor Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke, who ran for governor on the Peoples Democratic...
Appeal Court President To Unveil Presidential Election Petition Tribunal Panel May 8
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), which would decide on all petitions filed against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winners of the contested 2023 Presidential election, will now be officially introduced by Justice Monica Bolnaan Dongban-Mensem, President of the Appeal Court. On Monday, May 8, 2023, the panel members will be publicly...
Court Admits Two Statements Made By Chidimma Ojukwu As Evidence In Murder Trial
A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has admitted in evidence, two handwritten statements made by Chidinma Ojukwu – the key suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV – Usifo Ataga. While ruling on a trial within trial to determine the voluntariness of the statements, Justice Yetunde Adesanya, held that the prosecution...
Court Dismisses Bail Application By Terrorist Negotiator, Mamu
The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a bail application filed by the alleged terrorist negotiator, Tukur Mamu, who was detained and held in custody by the State Security Services. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by trial Justice Inyang Ekwo, said it was persuaded by a counter-affidavit the Department of State Services filed to oppose Mamu’s...
Falana, Others Back Live Broadcast Of Election Petition Proceedings
The debate over whether or not to broadcast live the proceedings of the presidential election petitions tribunal has continued. On March 24, the NBA president noted that a live telecast is in the interest of the people of Nigeria. Section 36 (1) and (3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria provides that judicial proceedings should be conducted...
Court Faults Sacking Of Ararume As NNPCL Chair, Awards N5bn Against Buhari
The Federal High Court, Abuja has declared the sack of Sen. Ifeanyi Ararume as Non-Executive Chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) as illegal and unlawful. Delivering judgment in the matter on Tuesday, Justice Inyang Ekwo said that his removal was unconstitutional and as such the court restored him as the Non- Executive Chairman of the company with...
Air Passenger Who Held Aircraft To Protest Against Tinubu’s Inauguration Arraigned, Remanded In Prison
Anti-Tinubu passenger aboard an Abuja-Lagos flight, Mr Obiajulu Uja, has been arraigned before the Zuba Magistrates’ Court, Abuja and remanded in prison custody. His lawyer, Ejike Ugwu, disclosed this on Monday. Uja was on Friday evening carried off a Lagos-Abuja flight, after he started a lone protest, demanding that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, must never be sworn in as president on...
FG Loses Legal Battle To Recover N70tn Loot Over Lack Of Diligent Handling
Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out the Federal Government’s suit seeking to recover and forfeit the sum of N70tn it alleged was stashed in 29 bank accounts by looters. The judge stated that the Federal Government’s lawyers and the private lawyers which it subsequently gave a fiat, did not diligently prosecute the case. The...
Peter Obi Officially Submits Petition Challenging Tinubu’s Victory At Tribunal
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi has formally submitted a petition challenging the process leading to the outcome of the Presidential Election held on February 28, 2023. The Independent National Electoral Commission had announced Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the election after which it declared him President-Elect. Chief Spokesman of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign of...
Old Naira Notes: Akeredolu Urges Buhari To Direct CBN To Obey Supreme Court Order
Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to obey the Supreme Court’s judgment on the validity of the old naira notes. In a statement issued at the weekend in Akure, the state capital, Mr Akeredolu said the President should immediately direct Mr Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to...
