DSS Officials Invade Ogun Court, Arrest Defendants
The men of the Department of State Services have invaded an Ogun State High Court sitting in Ilaro and arrested two defendants despite the judge’s warning. The court was presided over by Justice AA Shobayo on Tuesday. The defendants, who were simply identified as Alhaji Isiaka Fatai and Samuel Oyero, were tried in a suit marked HCP/IC/2023 between the State vs...
Deal With Lawyers Who Help Clients To Delay Justice, Buhari Tells Judges
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, maintained that delay in the dispensation of justice, as well as the rising number of cases pending in various courts across the federation, have remained a subject of grave concern to his administration. President Buhari, while declaring the 2021 All Nigeria Judges’ Conference of the Superior Courts, open in Abuja, said there was a need...
#EndBadGovernance: AGF Takes Over Prosecution Of Teenage Children Accused Of Attempt To Overthrow Tinubu
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has taken over the case of the #EndBadGovernance protesters arraigned in the Federal High Court Abuja on Friday. The protesters, 75 in number between the ages of 12 and 15, were charged with 10 counts of terrorism, an attempt to overthrow the government, and alleged mutiny over their...
Kano Governorship: Supreme Court To Decide Yusuf, Gawuna’s Fate Thursday
The Supreme Court will convene this Thursday to deliberate on the appeal filed by Kabiru Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) following the Court of Appeal’s affirmation of the Election Petition Tribunal’s decision to overturn his election victory as governor of Kano State. Confirming this development, the Kano State Commissioner of Information, Baba Dantiye, affirmed the scheduled hearing,...
Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer Slams Crime Against Humanity Suit On Simon Ekpa
Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Counsel to the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has sued a self-acclaimed discipline of Kanu, Mazi Simon Ekpa for crime against humanity in the South Easterner part of Nigeria. Defendants in the suit include: Simon Ekpa, Anibueze Juliet, Obinna Uzoaganaobi, Chukwuemeka Livingstone, and Raphael Ajaere. The suit marked: CU/788/2022 was filed...
You Can’t Impose Sanction On Twitter, Others, ECOWAS Court Tells FG
The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja has restrained the Federal Government from imposing sanctions or harassing, intimidating, arresting, or prosecuting Twitter. It also restricted the government from carrying out such actions against any other social media service provider, as well as media houses, pending the hearing and determination of a suit challenging the government’s suspension of Twitter operations in...
Court Orders Police To Pay Widow Of Late MKO Abiola N50m With Apology For Arresting Her While Wearing Nightgown
The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Gudu, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the Inspector-General of Police to pay N50m damages to the widow of the late Chief M. K. O. Abiola, Prof Zainab Abiola, for violating her fundamental rights by arresting and parading her while wearing only a nightgown. The court in the judgment delivered by Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi, also...
Imo North: Ararume Loses Candidacy Contest At Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed two appeals by Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, in which he sought, among others, to be made the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last by-election in Imo North Senatorial District of Imo State. A five-man panel of the court, headed by Justice Amina Augie, in two judgments, affirmed the judgments of the...
Supreme Court Dismisses Ihedioha’s Suit Seeking To Remove Uzodimma From Office
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Imo State seeking to be issued a certificate of return as rightful Governor of Imo State, stating that Governor Hope Uzodinma wasn’t qualified to run in the first place. In a ruling read by Justice Tijjani Abubakar on Tuesday, the apex court dismissed...
IGP Says Police Have Arrested Operatives Who Allegedly Invaded Justice Mary Odili’s Home
Some operatives who laid siege to the Abuja residence of Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili have been arrested, Inspector-General Alkali Usman announced yesterday in Lagos. The police boss neither gave the number of those arrested nor their organisations. But he said the circumstances surrounding the incident were being investigated. In his first comment on the incident, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN)...
