Kano Elders Beg Court To Make Process Of Igbo Exit From Nigeria Faster
A Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to compel the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives to hasten the exit of the South-Eastern region out of Nigeria before concluding on-going amendment to the country’s constitution. The request for court order to compel hastening of South East exit from Nigeria formed one of the three prayers...
#BREAKING: Court Frowns At Illegal Detention Of Igboho’s Aides, Grants Them Bail
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the 12 aides of Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Delivering the ruling on the application filed by the 12 applicants before the court, the presiding Judge, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, said it is clear that no charge has been brought against Sunday Igboho’s aides since their arrest. As such,...
PDP Youth Leader Who ‘Insulted’ Buhari, SGF On Facebook Bags One Year Prison Sentence
Chief Magistrate’s Court 4 sitting in Yola, Adamawa State on Monday, sentenced Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Hong Local Government Area, Ikamu Kato, to one year imprisonment for 'insulting' the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari; and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha. The PDP youth leader was remanded in prison custody in a...
#BREAKING: DSS Finally Obeys Court Order, Produces Sunday Igboho’s Aides
The Department of State Services on Monday presented the aides of Sunday Igboho who were arrested on July 1 at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The aides were arrested when DSS officials raided Igboho’s home on July 1, but have sued on grounds that their fundamental human rights were being infringed on. A lawyer to the arrested aides, Pelumi Olajenbesi,...
BREAKING: Dissatisfied By His Acquittal, Kaduna Govt Files Fresh Charges Against El-Zakzaky
The Kaduna State government has filed fresh charges against the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. This comes less than 48 hours after the embattled IMN leader was discharged and acquitted by a Kaduna State high court. Justice Gideon Kurada had on Wednesday discharged and acquitted Elzakzaky and his wife Zeenat, from the eight charges pressed against...
Nnamdi Kanu Drags Nigeria, Kenya To Africa Rights Commission
Special Counsel to the leader of Indeginous People of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor has disclosed that the extraordinary rendition of his client is now a matter before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. Ejimakor said that the defendants in the petition are both Nigeria and Kenya governments, whom Kanu is asking to account for...
List Of Media Houses Approved To Cover Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial
The Federal high court, Abuja, has released an official list of media houses/platforms permitted to cover the trial of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Due to the sensitive nature of Kanu’s case and for security reasons, only a handful of media platforms are allowed to enter the court premises to report/monitor proceedings. Kanu will be arraigned at the high court today. In...
Court Grants Wife’s Request To End 22-Year-Old Marriage After Husband Abandoned Her, Children
Jos Central Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, on Thursday dissolved a 22-year-old marriage between Nuratu Shehu and her estranged husband, Abdulganiyu Olayekan, on grounds of abandonment. Delivering judgment, Justices Ghazali Adam and Hyacenth Dolnanan, granted the request made by Shehu for divorce. Adam said all efforts to reconcile the parties had failed and therefore, ordered Shehu and Olayekan to go...
Autonomy: Abia Assembly Passes Law On Fund Management Between Legislature, Judiciary
Following the need to put Abia State at the same pedestal with what is obtainable at the federal level and, in response to the national clamour for the independence of both the Legislative and Judiciary Arms of Government at both the Federal and State levels pursuant to achieving full autonomy for them, Abia State House of Assembly at plenary...
After Nnamdi Kanu’s Arrest, Canadian Minister Says Malami A Disgrace To Rule Of Law
The Minister of Justice and Solicitor-General of the Government of Alberta, Canada, Kelechi Madu, has slammed the Nigerian Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Abubakar Malami, over the re-arrest of the self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Madu, in a post on his LinkedIn page, said if reports that Kanu was abducted from Kenya were true,...
