Tinubu Writes Senate, Wants Kekere-Ekun Confirmed As CJN
President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate, seeking the confirmation of Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, read Tinubu’s letter during plenary on Tuesday. In the letter, Tinubu cited Section 231(1) of the Nigerian Constitution, which empowers him to appoint the CJN based on recommendations from the National Judicial Council, pending Senate...
Amidst Tight Security, DSS Brings Nnamdi Kanu To Court For Trial
The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been brought to court by officials of the Department of State Security (DSS) for his trial. He was brought into the courtroom amid heavy security with journalists denied access to film or take pictures of him. Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lead counsel to the Kanu confirmed to journalists that...
Conduct Of Ebonyi Council Election Illegal, Court Rules
The Federal High Court, sitting in Abakaliki, yesterday, voided the Local Government Area election conducted by Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission, EBSEIC, in the state. The election, which was conducted on July 30, 2022, has been causing lots of ripples and disagreements among the opposition political parties, even as they argued that the election was conducted without following due process...
Nine Persons Appear In Court Over Attack On Atiku’s Convoy
The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Abdul Umar, says the state command has charged nine suspects who attacked the convoy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the state. The CP who disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday said a total of 14 electoral violence offenders were arrested by the command. Of the 14 suspects, Umar said...
Court Bars Sex Toy Senator From Seeking Re-Election In 2023
An Adamawa State High Court has restrained the All Progressives Congress (APC) from recognising Ishaku Abbo, a senator who brutally assaulted a lady in an Abuja sex toy shop in 2019 as its candidate for Adamawa North in the forthcoming general election. In the judgement delivered on Monday, Justice Danladi Mohammed ruled that Senator Abbo is not entitled to seek...
Environmental Degradation: Court Orders Shell To Pay Ogoni People N45.9bn Fine In 21 Days
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered Shell Petroleum Company to pay the sum of N45.9 billion to the people of Ogoni in Rivers State over offences bordering on environmental degradation. Justice Ahmed Mohammed who gave the order on Wednesday held that the money must be paid within 21 days. The sum is a cost awarded against the company...
You Can’t Impose Sanction On Twitter, Others, ECOWAS Court Tells FG
The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja has restrained the Federal Government from imposing sanctions or harassing, intimidating, arresting, or prosecuting Twitter. It also restricted the government from carrying out such actions against any other social media service provider, as well as media houses, pending the hearing and determination of a suit challenging the government’s suspension of Twitter operations in...
Supreme Court Releases CTC Copy On Nnamdi Kanu’s Judgement
The Supreme Court has released the Certified True Copy of the judgment on the suit between the Federal Government and the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The apex court had, on December 15, 2024, set aside a judgment by the lower court that dismissed the terrorism charges against Kanu. The appeal court had exonerated Kanu following...
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...
Ganduje, Wife, Son, Others To Appear In Kano Court Over Dollar Bribery April 17
A Kano High Court has fixed April 17, 2024, as the date to arraign the immediate past Governor of the state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, his wife, and six others. The accused persons will be arraigned on eight-count charges concerning dollar bribery allegation, diversion and misappropriation of funds that include alleged $413,000 and N1.38bn bribery, among others. In the writ of summon...
