Judiciary

An Abuja High Court has adjourned till October 4, the trial in a suit filed by FEMASON LIMITED against an Army Officer, Major General A. B. Ibrahim. In March, 2022, the Presiding Judge, Honourable Justice A. A. Fashola, had dismissed the Preliminary Objection brought by the Army General and granted an order of Interlocutory Injunction restraining the Army Generalfrom further Read More

A 32-year-old cleaner, Peter Calistus, was on Monday sentenced to eight months imprisonment by a DeiDei Grade I Area Court in Abuja for stealing a laptop bag. Calistus, a resident of Gwarinpa village, Abuja pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal trespass and theft and begged the court for leniency. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Mr Chinedu Ogada, told the court Read More

A legal practitioner, Mike Enahoro-Ebah, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over its alleged refusal to furnish him with the certified true copies (CTCs) of the nominations forms submitted by the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) 2023 presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, in the previous and forthcoming elections. In a motion on ex-parte dated and filed August 5 Read More

A High Court in Jos on Thursday ordered former registrar of the Federal College of Veterinary Medical Laboratory Technology, Vom, Muhammad Ambursa to return salaries he enjoyed for 11 years to the federal government. Delivering judgement, Justice Christine Dabup, held that the total amount the convict received as salaries and allowances during his wrongful period of employment was illegal and Read More

The Executive Secretary of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Chief Tony Ojukwu, (SAN) has lamented the destruction caused by a decade of insurgency in North-east, saying “we cannot continue the war forever.” According to a statement by deputy director, public affairs NHRC Fatimah Agwai Mohammed, he stated in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital during the second meeting of the Borno Read More

One year after a Kaduna State High Court ordered the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to release Sheikh El-Zakzaky’s travel documents, the court verdict is yet to be carried out. In a judgment delivered by Justice Gideon Kurada of the Kaduna State High Court in 2021, the Judge had ordered for the return of El-Zakzaky’s travel documents and that of his Read More

Respite came the way of the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, and two others Thursday when Justice Jadesola Adeyemi-Ajayi of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, granted them bail. They were arraigned before her on an alleged N109 billion fraud. The bail was granted in line with the same terms and conditions Read More

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Maitama, Wednesday, fixed Thursday for the ruling on the determination of the bail application for the release of the former Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris. Idris and two others are facing trial on a 14-count charge instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against him and Read More

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, was on Tuesday conspicuously absent at the meeting of the Body of Benchers (BOB) held in Abuja. The meeting, which was held at the Body of Benchers Complex in Jabi, Abuja was well attended by key stakeholders in the legal profession, including the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Read More

The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has struck out a suit by an aggrieved former deputy national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Callistus Okafor, challenging the election of the party leadership. The three-member panel read gave the judgement on Friday. Led by Justice Biobele Abraham Georgewill, the appellate court held that the subject matter before the Federal High Court Read More

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has admitted in evidence, the sum of $61,400, two travelling bags containing 24 bags of cocaine, international passports and other items. The travelling bags containing the cocaine were tendered before the court. One of the bags contained 9 cotton packs of packaged cocaine, while the other bag contained 3 cotton packs of cocaine Read More

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has elected two new Judges at the close of its 41st session held in Lusaka, Zambia. In a statement by the court Registrar, Dr. Robert Eno made available to Blueprint on the 20th July, 2022, the release gave the names of the two elected Judges as; Professor Dennis Dominic Adjei, a national of Read More

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned for report a suit filed against Prof. Obiajulu Obikeze and four others to October 6, 2022. The Judge is specifically waiting to get a report on the takeover of the matter by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF). Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date on Wednesday following a Read More

An Enugu State High Court sitting at Obollo Afor, Udenu local government area, has issued an interlocutory injunction stopping the state Ministry of Education from imposing, demanding or collecting fees for basic education examinations in the state. The fees the court banned the state from collecting include Common Entrance Examination, First School Leaving Certificate Examination, State Uniform Examinations and the Read More

Gwagwalada branch of the Nigeria Bar Association [NBA] recently honoured some eminent jurists in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for their outstanding contributions to the growth of the judiciary, the dispensation of justice and the defence of democracy. The investiture ceremony was part of the 10th year anniversary celebration. It attracted prominent judges and other legal luminaries including the Chief Read More

Widow of the late Vanguard newspaper’s House of Representatives’ Correspondent, Mrs Deve Bossua Salem, has instituted a rights enforcement suit against the Federal Government of Nigeria at the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The suit marked ECW/CCJ/APP/32/22, dated July 7, 2022, was filed on behalf of Mrs Salem (Plaintiff), by Chief Sebastine Read More

‘ The scheduled arraignment of retired Group Captain Peter Bilal at the Magistrate Court 13, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Thursday, was stalled due to the absence of the presiding Magistrate, Oluwakemi Ariwoola. Although counsel for the plaintiff, Dr Oluwaseyi Leigh, and lawyer to the defendant, Luka Haruna, were in court, the magistrate was conspicuously absent. Also the plaintiff, Dr Read More

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted permission to former Imo State Governor, Anayo Rochas Okorocha, to travel to the United Kingdom for medical attention. Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo who granted the permission Wednesday also ordered the Registrar of the Court to release the traveling passport of the former governor to him to undertake the medical trip. The order Read More