Justice Odili’s Home Invasion: Wike Carpets Buhari Over Silence, Says President Sick
Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari over his ‘silence’ on the invasion of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, saying that most of the problems Nigeria faces is because of lack of leadership. Governor Wike who on Saturday said that he was paying a special New Year visit to his Bauchi counterpart, Governor Bala Mohammed noted that...
Rape Children Below 10 Years And Get Death Sentence — Jigawa Govt
The Jigawa State Government has enacted the child protection law that prescribes the death penalty for rapists without the option of life imprisonment. Dr. Musa Adamu, the Commissioner for Justice and the Attorney General, disclosed this on Wednesday during an end-of-the-year press briefing in Dutse, the state capital of Jigawa. According to him, anyone convicted of raping a child below the...
Alleged Harassment: Don’t Mistake Our Silence For Stup*dity, Weakness, CJN Cautions
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, has warned individuals and agencies of the government against any form of harassment and embarrassment of judicial officers in the country. He gave the caution on Wednesday in Abuja at a special session organised to herald the formal commencement of the 2021/2022 legal year of the Supreme Court. Justice Muhammad, who appraised the...
Three Smugglers Who Imported 661 Pump Action Rifles Bag 16-Year Jail Term
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday convicted and sentenced a retired Customs Officer, Mahmud Hassan, and two others, to a total of 16 years imprisonment for conspiracy and unlawful importation of 661 Pump Action rifles, unlawful importation of prohibited firearms, forgery, uttering of forged documents, and bribery. Others convicted and sentenced to jail terms by Justice Ayokunle...
Court Orders DSS To Allow Nnamdi Kanu Change Clothes
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, deferred hearing of the application the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, filed to quash the treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him, till January 18, 2022. The adjournment came on a day trial Justice Binta Nyako ordered the Department of State Services, DSS,...
I Can’t Withstand Her Promiscuous Lifestyle, Policeman Says As He Begs Court To Dissolve Marriage
A 45-year-old policeman, Mr Rafiu Ademola, on Thursday prayed an Igando Customary Court to dissolve his 14-year-old marriage over his wife’s alleged adulterous nature. The petitioner told the court that his wife, Rashidat, was promiscuous. “I saw messages of her adulterous acts on her WhatsApp chats with her lovers, she meets with them at different locations. “She told one of the men...
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...
Monday Ubani Says Malami Cannot Set Up Probe Panel On Justice Odili’s Home Invasion
The Chairman of Section, Public Interest And Development Law (SPIDEL) of the Nigerian Bar Association, Monday Ubani, has explained why the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, cannot set up an independent panel to probe the siege of Justice Mary Odili’s residence. Ubani, a former Second Vice-President of the NBA, believes the Attorney General of the Federation has been implicated by...
Malami May Lose SAN Title Over Justice Odili’s Home Invasion — NBA
The Nigerian Bar Association has continued to fume over the invasion of the Abuja home of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, by agents of the Federal Government last week. The President of the NBA, Olumide Akpata, at a special press briefing in Lagos on Friday, described the operation as egregious and the gathering of an ominous cloud over the judiciary,...
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)...
