Court Faults Sacking Of Ararume As NNPCL Chair, Awards N5bn Against Buhari
The Federal High Court, Abuja has declared the sack of Sen. Ifeanyi Ararume as Non-Executive Chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) as illegal and unlawful. Delivering judgment in the matter on Tuesday, Justice Inyang Ekwo said that his removal was unconstitutional and as such the court restored him as the Non- Executive Chairman of the company with...
Court Bars Kano Anti-Graft Agency From Inviting, Investigating Ganduje Over Dollar Video
A Federal high court in Kano has held that the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) lacks power to invite or investigate the former state governor and All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, over the dollar bribery video. Justice Abdullahi Muhammad Liman delivered the judgement on Tuesday in a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Ganduje...
After Discontinuation Of His Trial, Sowore Blasts DSS, Buhari Over Ruinous Regime
A former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has reacted to the recent court verdict that ordered the Federal Government to discontinue the treasonable felony charge levelled against him and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, (also known as Mandate). Sowore and Bakare were prosecuted by the immediate past regime for calling for a nationwide #RevolutionNow protest against...
Imo North: After APC Accused Justices Of Holding Meeting With PDP Leaders, Supreme Court Speaks
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, clarified that Justice Abdu Aboki was not one of the three Justices of the court petitioned by the All Progressive Congress (APC) of plotting to subvert justice in the matter of the Imo North Senatorial District bye-election. The apex court, however, said that Aboki is in the panel of five Justices of the court constituted...
Why Rivers House Of Reps Member Was Sent To Prison Two Days To Election
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has remanded the lawmaker representing Etche/Omuma federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Ephraim Nwuzi, to the Nigerian Correctional Centre in the state. This followed a remand proceeding preferred against him by the Rivers State Police Command. The police had accused the federal lawmaker, who is also the All...
EFCC Set To Arraign Obiano Over Alleged ₦4bn Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will arraign the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, on Wednesday, January 24, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, over alleged money laundering to the tune of N4,008,573,350. Our correspondent gathered on Tuesday that the ex-governor will be arraigned on nine count charges. The development comes over a week after...
FG Slams Nnamdi Kanu With Fresh Terrorism Charges
The Federal Government on Monday, entered fresh terrorism allegations against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. FG, in the amended process it filed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, increased the counts in the initial charge it preferred against Kanu. The IPOB leader who was hitherto facing a seven-count treasonable felony charge,...
2014 Immigration Recruitment Tragedy: Abba Moro Has No Case To Answer — Court
A Federal High Court in Abuja has discharged and acquitted Senator Abba Moro and two others in charges of fraud over the 2014 Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba on Thursday held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) failed to establish the allegation of procurement fraud against the defendants. Moro, who was Minister of Interior at the...
You’re Guilty Of $3m Bribe, Appeal Court Tells Farouk Lawan
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, Thursday, affirmed the high court judgement that convicted former Chairman of then House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy probe, Mr. Farouk Lawan, for bribery. However, the appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-man panel of Justices, reduced Lawan’s jail term from seven to five years, after it discharged and...
Certificate Forgery: My Victory Triumph of Rule of Law — Obaseki
Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has expressed gratitude to the judiciary over his victory at the Federal High Court in Abuja exonerating of certificate forgery, saying it is a triumph of Rule of Law. The Governor in a statement issued on Saturday shortly after the judgement further stated that it is testament to the fact that truth would prevail...
