The Republic of Cameroon has formally asked Nigeria to disengage from the Bakassi Peninsula and all the border communities around the Lake Chad region and the international waterways along the Gulf of Guinea. If the demand is obliged, Nigeria might, besides losing Bakassi local government area of Cross River state, surrender other area councils to Cameroon. The likely affected local Read More
As theJudiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) commenced a nationwide industrial action Tuesday, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad has explained reasons he would not persuade governors to meet the workers’ demands. The judiciary workers paralysed court activities nationwide following the refusal of the state governors to comply with the Executive Order 10 which gives financial autonomy to the state judiciary, as Read More
The Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, Tuesday insisted that due diligence was followed in handling the payment of the 3.2 billion dollars Paris Club refund judgment. Malami, who responded to media reports, alleging “pushing for payment of”’ contradictory and incongruous figures regarding judgment debt and Paris Club refund, spoke in Abuja at a press briefing. He said the judgment debt Read More
Judiciary workers, under the aegis of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), have kicked off their indefinite strike to press for judicial autonomy. As early as Tuesday morning, the leadership of JUSUN stormed different courts especially in Lagos and Abuja to implement the strike action. The national leadership of JUSUN had in a circular dated April 1, ordered the Read More
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has approached the Federal High Court Abuja, with an application seeking to amend the criminal charge filed against a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr Andrew Yakubu. Yakubu was arraigned before Justice Ahmed Mohammed on March 16, 2017 on a six-count charges of fraud. Yakubu had admitted Read More
As the country continues to battle against financial and other crimes, plea bargain appears to have created cracks in the justice system for some corrupt government officials to plead their way out of prison. In this report, KEHINDE OSASONA writes on the recent effort by the Ministry of Justice to review plea bargain guidelines. The Attorney General of the Federation Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to confirm Justice Salisu Garba Abdullahi, who has been in acting capacity, as the substantive Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).This was contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity Mr Femi Adesina.The statement said the President made the Read More
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal Thursday discharged founder DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, of the N2.1 billion money laundering charges instituted against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In the seven-count criminal charge preferred by the EFCC, the Appeal Court upheld the no case submission filed by Dokpesi and DAAR Communications. While delivering Read More
A High Court sitting in Kaduna on Wednesday again adjourned the trial of leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat to May 25, 2021 for the continuation of hearing on the case.During the Wednesday sitting before the presiding judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, the prosecuting counsel, Dari Bayero, finally rested his case by Read More
National Leader All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said what Nigerians needed now is stimulus expenditure and not austerity measures. The former Lagos state governor also urged the recruitment of fifty million Nigerian youths into the Army to curb unemployment and end the nation’s security woes. Tinubu spoke in Kano Monday at the12th Colloquium to mark his Read More
The Abuja division of the Federal High Court has ordered for an accelerated hearing in suit filed by Alaigbo Development Foundation, (ADF) against the National Judicial Council (NJC), the President of the Court of Appeal and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF). In the suit, the Foundation alleged injustice in the recent appointment of some justices to the Court Read More
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has formally kick-started Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system with an appeal by its President, Justice Monica Dongban -Mensem, to the judiciary to rise up and meet the challenges of adjudication in the 21st century. If the challenges are met, the Appeal Court President expressed optimism that the country will become more attractive to international Read More
The Federal government has tendered as exhibit before the federal high Court Abuja the sum of 1.3 million dollars recovered from the Abuja mansion of retired Air Commodore Umar Mohammed. The huge foreign currency was tendered by the government on Thursday at the resumed trial and was admitted as exhibit after it was counted in the open courtroom with the Read More
A High Court in Akwa Ibom state has jailed Professor Peter Ogban for manipulating election results in favour of the All Progressives Congress against the Peoples Democratic Party. Professor Ogban, a Professor of soil science at the University of Calabar was the returning officer in the senatorial election in Akwa Ibom north-west in 2019. On count one, the presiding judge, Read More
A mild drama ensued at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Wednesday, when Abubakar Umar, a witness resurfaced at the ongoing trial of former Benue governor, Gabriel Suswam. Blueprint reports that the court had declared the witness as hostile because of his perceived uncooperative attitude towards the prosecution. The prosecution was also quoted by Paul Erokoro at the resumed sitting as Read More
The transfer of Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, to Calabar Division of the court has stalled the commencement of hearing in a suit filed against Green Energy International Ltd and its Chairman, Prof. Anthony Adegbulugbe. This medium reports that two aggrieved directors in the company; Dr Bunu Alibe and Mr Ayo Olojede had filed a Read More
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state has called for decentralisation of the judiciary to reduce the heavy caseload of High Court Judges in the state, which according to him, hinders the administration of justice.The governor made this known when the National President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Olumide Akpata, paid him a courtesy call on Tuesday. He said Read More
A Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo state, Tuesday, ruled that it has jurisdiction to entertain the money laundering charge brought against Pastor Osagie Ize -Iyamu, and four others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The commission in a press statement by the Head, Media & Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, in Abuja, said: “The other defendants are Read More
A factional national chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Mr Kenneth Udeze, was on Tuesday re-arraigned before an Osun state Magistrate Court sitting in the state capital, Osogbo on three count charges.Also arraigned alongside Udeze were chieftains of the party, Mr James Vernibe and one Ogunmodede Oluwagbemi. The accused persons were arraigned in suit no, Charge No. MOS 1715/2021 on a Read More
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN,Tuesday, reiterated that reviewing of Draft Guidelines will promote standardization and consistency in plea bargains by Federal Prosecutors. The draft guideline, which was part of strategic interventions by his ministry he added, will enhance the principles of accountability, equity, integrity and transparency.The development, according to the AGF Read More
Kogi State House of Assembly has passed the state’s Violence Against Persons Prohibitions (VAPP) Bill to provide for the elimination of violence in private and public life, as well as life imprisonment for rapists. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the passage followed the adoption of the report of the joint Committees on Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Read More
Senator Ifeanyi Ararume’s fresh hopes to be declared winner of the December 5th Imo North bye-election were dashed on Thursday day following a restraining order by a High Court in Owerri. Presiding Justice E.O. Agada issued an interim order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising Senator Ararume as the winner of the bye-election. The suit brought by the Read More
A federal high court in Abuja, has restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), from inviting, harassing and threatening to arrest or detain a constitutional lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN. Ozekhome allegedly incurred the agency’s wrath for criticising its former Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu. But in a judgment on delivered on Thursday by Justice Inyang Ekwo, he held that Read More
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed the alleged University of Ibadan degree certificate forgery instituted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to challenge the election of Edo state governor Mr Godwin Obaseki The court dismissed the suit on Thursday for lacking in merit and awarded N250, 000 cost in favour of governor Obaseki Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of Read More
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state, has hailed the Appeal Court judgement which cleared him of a certificate forgery case preferred against him by the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the Edo 2020 gubernatorial election. The governor, in a statement, said the ruling by the Court of Appeal vindicates him and reiterates the fact that “the suit was, from the Read More
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