Court Freezes 32 Bank Accounts In Connection With #EndBadGovernance [See Details]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has frozen the bank accounts of 32 individuals and companies linked to the 10-day #EndBadGovernance Protest organised across the country pending investigation and prosecution of the case. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on the ex parte motion moved by counsel for the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Mohammed, also ordered the banks...
FG Inaugurates Committee To Enforce Supreme Court Judgment On LG Autonomy
The Federal Government has set up a 10-member committee to enforce the Supreme Court judgment delivered on 11th July, 2024 granting financial autonomy to Local Governments in Nigeria. Director, Information & Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation OSGF, Segun Imohiosen disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja. He said the SGF, Senator George Akume, who...
Supreme Court Reserves Judgment On Bayelsa, Kogi Governorship Polls
A five-man panel of the Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the Kogi and Bayelsa States governorship elections appeals filed by Muritala Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Both Ajaka and Sylva challenged the declarations made by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) on the outcome of the 2023 governorship elections...
Presidential Jets Seizure: States Should Stop Entering International Deals Alone — Foreign Affairs Minister
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, says sub-national actors such as states should not enter foreign or international negotiations without the input of the ministry of foreign affairs or the Federal Government. He was speaking on the efforts being made to resolve the dispute with a Chinese company which has led to the seizure of three jets of...
Ogun State Govt Vows To Vacate French and Court Order Seizing Three Nigerian Presidential Jets
The Ogun State Government, on Thursday, faulted the process that led to the provisional attachment of three Nigerian-owned aircraft in France by the Judicial Court of Paris. In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade, the Ogun State Government described the latest development as the new antics by a Chinese company...
Tinubu Should Be Courageous To Get Nigeria New Constitution — Ozekhome
Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike Ozekhome, has urged President Bola Tinubu to muster the political will to get Africa’s most populous nation what he described as a people-centred constitution. The human rights lawyer was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics show. He is a member of The Patriots, a group of eminent Nigerians led by former Commonwealth Secretary-General...
Court Stops Sale Of Nigeria Air To Ethiopian Airlines
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday has declared null and void the sale of Nigeria Air Ltd to Ethiopian Airlines Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa in his judgment stopping the sale, ordered that the proposed establishment of a national carrier-Nigeria Air, by the Federal Government, should not be carried out. The judge made the order while granting the reliefs sought...
Alleged Sponsorship Of Protest: Obi Demands Apology From Onanuga, Threatens N5bn Suit Over Defamation
The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in last year’s elections, Peter Obi, has threatened to sue the Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga, over his allegation that he was involved in the planned mass protest over hardship in the country. Obi writing through his counsel, Chief Alex Ejesieme, SAN, of the MADIBA Chambers...
Court Rejects Application To Stop Fubara From Spending Rivers Money
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, declined to grant a motion to stop the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, from spending from the state’s consolidated revenue fund. Rather than grant the motion ex parte marked FHC/ABJ/CS/984/24, Justice James Nwite asked the plaintiffs to put Fubara and other defendants in the suit on notice. The suit was filed by...
Kenyan Court Suspends Ban Placed On Street Protest By Police
The High Court of Kenya has issued a conservatory order suspending the National Police Service’s prohibition on protests by Kenyan youths (Gen Z), which was issued by Acting Inspector General of Police (IG) Douglas Kanja. Justice Bahati Mwamuye of the Milimani High Court on Thursday ordered the application which is seeking to oppose the ban on protests be certified as...
