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)...
After Invasion Of Justice Mary Odili’s Home, SANs Meet With Malami
The Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, on Tuesday held a meeting behind closed doors, with the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, over the siege on the home of Justice Mary Odili, last week Friday. Speaking on behalf of the SANs at the Federal Ministry of Justice Abuja, shortly after the meeting, Adegboyega Awomolo, said they...
Court To Hear CNG’s Suit Seeking Referendum For Biafra Today
A Federal High Court sitting Abuja will today hear the suit filed by the leadership of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) seeking referendum for Biafra agitators. The coalition had, in June, sued the National Assembly, asking court to compel the defendants to halt the ongoing constitutional review exercise. The spokesman of the CNG, Abdul-azeez Suleiman, Sunday said a judge had been...
Invictus Obi To Forefeit More Two Houses, Cars, Court Rules
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of two houses in Abuja and two cars traced to the convicted cybercriminal, Obinwanne George Okeke also known as Invictus Obi. Justice Peter Lifu made the order on October 29, 2021 following an ex parte motion filed and argued by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Chinenye...
Ministry Of Justice Deceived Me To Issue Search Warrant Against Justice Odili — Magistrate
An Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Wuse Zone 6, has accused the Federal Government of misleading it to issue a search warrant against a Justice of the Supreme Court, Mary Odili. Justice Odili is currently the second most senior jurist of the apex court, after the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad. Her home in the Federal Capital...
EFCC Denies Raiding Justice Odili’s Home
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday denied it carried out an operation on the home of Justice Mary Odili. Reports of a raid on her home were condemned by the Commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, who noted that none of its officers carried out any operation on the Justice’s home. There had been reports earlier that the EFCC had...
For Sending ‘Good Morning Babe’ To Married Woman, Osun Man Charged With Breach Of Peace In Marriage
38-year-old man, Sikiru Oluwaseun Jamiu, was on Tuesday, dragged before an Ijebu-Ode Magistrate’s Court in Ogun State, for allegedly texting a seductive WhatsApp message to a housewife. Jamiu was dragged before the court and charged by the police with misconduct in breaching peace in the marriage of one Mrs Opeyemi Adegbesan by sending a WhatsApp message to her on September...
BREAKING: Kanu Pleads Not Guilty To FG’s Amended Charge
Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has pleaded not guilty to the seven-count amended charge the Federal Government preferred against him. Kanu, who was docked before trial Justice Binta Nyako, said he was innocent of all the allegations FG levelled against him, after the charge was read to him in the open court. His re-arraingment came...
