Court Stops Obaseki’s Move To Impeach Deputy, Shaibu
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja has issued a temporary order stopping the move by the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, to impeach his Deputy, Phillip Shaibu, over their irreconcilable differences. Justice Mohammed issued the temporary order while ruling in a motion on notice filed by Shaibu praying the court to stop the move to ease him...
Court Throws Out Fresh Bid By DSS To Detain Emefiele For More 14 Days
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Maitama, on Thursday, rejected a fresh application the Department of State Services, DSS, filed for an order to further detain the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for another 14 days. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice Hamza Muazu, held...
Ibori To Face Fresh Seizure Of £100 Million, Fresh Jail Term In UK
A court in the UK is set to order the seizure of more than £100 million ($129 million) from former Delta State Governor James Ibori. This comes about six years after Ibori’s return to Nigeria after serving a prison sentence for money laundering and fraud charges. The British authorities had indicted him for stealing public funds and laundering them through UK...
Court Grants NDLEA Order To Sell 111 Vehicles Abandoned By Drug Traffickers And Send Proceeds To FG
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Wednesday, secured an order from the Federal High Court in Lagos, for the final forfeiture of 111 vehicles and motorcycles abandoned by alleged drug dealers. The court also granted an order directing the agency to sell the forfeited vehicles and make payment of the proceeds to the Federal Government. Justice Ayokunle Faji granted the...
Justice Binta Nyako Orders DSS To Grant Nnamdi Kanu Access To His Choice Doctor
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 reported failing health. Delivering judgement, Justice Nyako, also ordered the secret...
Court Stops Prosecution Of Suspended INEC REC, Yunusa-Ari
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, over his declaration of Aisha Dahiru, the All Progressives Congress candidate, as governor in the March 18 poll. Justice Donatus Okorowo made the order after Mr. Michael Aondoaka, SAN, counsel to Dahiru, moved the ex-parte motion to...
Inside Abba Kyari’s N50m Bail For Drug Offences
Federal High Court in Abuja has granted suspended DCP Abba Kyari N50 million bail in a charge in which he and two of his siblings were accused of failing to declare assets to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. NDLEA had filed the 24-count charge against Kyari and his brothers — Mohammed Baba Kyari and Ali Kyari. In a ruling...
Ozekhome, NBA President Maikyau, Afe Babalola To Storm Abia As Law Teachers’ Conference Holds
Renowned human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekohme; legal luminary, Afe Babalola; and the National President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Y. C Maikyau are among the eggheads in the legal profession expected at the forthcoming Nigerian Association of Law Teachers, NALT, 54th annual conference in Abia. This is as Self determination and national integration; as well as internal security and...
You Can’t Sack Ozekhome, Ejiofor You Never Employed Them, IPOB Replies Nnamdi Kanu’s Brother
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Tuesday debunked the alleged termination of the appointments of Professor Mike Ozekhome, SAN, and Sir Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, as counsels to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu’s younger brother, Kanunta Kanu, had in a statement he issued via his Twitter handle on Thursday last week noted that Ozekhome and Ejiofor’s services are no longer required in...
I Never Compromised My Oath Of Office, Retired Justice Bulkachuwa Breaks Silence
Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, wife of Adamu Bulkachuwa, Senator who represented Bauchi North in the 9th Assembly, has defended her judicial integrity. She was reacting to comments by her husband that he used his position to ask favour for his colleagues from his wife, the immediate past President of the Court of Appeal. Bulkachuwa on the floor of the Senate at the...
