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Sep

2024

Edo Election: Court Summons APC Guber Candidate Okpebholo Over Age Falsification

Edo Election: Court Summons APC Guber Candidate Okpebholo Over Age Falsification A magistrates’ court in Abuja has summoned Monday Okpebholo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for the 2024 Edo elections, to appear before it over alleged age falsification. He is charged with forgery and perjury. The suit, filed by a PDP chieftain, Honesty Aginbatse, on September 12, alleged discrepancies in the birth dates provided in the nomination forms Mr Okpebholo submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Mr Okpebholo is to appear before Magistrate Abubakar Mukhtar on September 20. Mr Aginbatse had alleged that Mr Okpebholo’s 2023…

Sep

2024

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Court Sends 10 #EndBadGovernance Protesters To Prison

News Flash, Human Rights, Judiciary

Court Sends 10 #EndBadGovernance Protesters To Prison A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that 10 individuals, arrested during the recent #Endbadgovernance protests, should be remanded in both Suleja and Keffi prisons in Niger and Nasarawa states. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on Monday, also instructed that the only female among them – Angel Love Innocent (51 years) be remanded in Suleja prison (Niger State), while the nine, who are male, should be kept in Keffi prison (Nasarawa States). The nine male defendants are Michael Tobiloba Adaramoye (Lenin), 28yrs; Adeyemi Abiodun Abayomi (Yomi), 34 yrs; Suleiman Yakubu, 28…

Sep

2024

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Amnesty International Reacts As Mass Trial Of #EndBadGovernance Protesters Begin In Abuja, Kano, Kaduna Today

Human Rights, Judiciary, News Flash

Mass Trial Of #EndBadGovernance Protesters Begins In Abuja, Kano, Kaduna Today; AI Reacts Amnesty International Nigeria, has condemned the mass trial of #EndBadGovernance protesters. The trial will begin in Abuja, Kano and Kaduna today. Recall that a good number of protesters were arrested by security agents during the hunger/ hardship protests in August, 2024. Condemning their mass trial in a statement on its X platform on Monday, AI said: “Amnesty International condemns the sham trial of the protesters even before it began, and calls for an end to these endless bizarre attempts to deprive people of the right to peaceful…

Aug

2024

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Osigwe Elected And Sworn In As 32nd NBA President

Judiciary, News Flash

Osigwe Sworn In As 32nd NBA President The newly elected President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Afam Osigwe, has officially assumed office as the 32nd President of the NBA in a ceremony held in Lagos. Osigwe, who succeeded Mr Yakubu Maikyau, took the oath of office on Thursday, marking the start of his tenure as the leader of the prestigious legal body. Elected to the position in July 2023, Osigwe has taken over from Maikyau, whose tenure concluded today. The new president, formerly the General Secretary of the NBA, secured the position in the NBA presidential election by defeating two…

Aug

2024

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FGN Inaugurates 10-Member Committee To Enforce Court Judgement On LG Autonomy

FGN, Judiciary, LGA, News Flash

FG Inaugurates 10-Member Committee To Enforce Court Judgement On LG Autonomy The Federal Government has set up a 10-member Inter-Ministerial Committee to ensure the enforcement of the Supreme Court’s recent judgement granting financial autonomy to Local Governments in Nigeria. This committee was inaugurated by Senator George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) on August 20. The Supreme Court, on July 11, 2024, ruled that Local Governments must receive their funds directly, without interference from state governments. This ruling, delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, declared that it is unconstitutional for state governments to withhold or use funds…

Aug

2024

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FGN Blasts Chinese Company, Says Presidential Jets Can’t Be Seized

Business, FGN, Judiciary, News Flash

FG Blasts Chinese Company, Says Presidential Jets Can’t Be Seized The Presidency has broken its silence on a French Court for the seizure of three Nigerian Presidential jets. Citing Financial Times, Daily Trust had reported how the court ordered seizure of the aircraft over a botched deal Ogun State government and a Chinese company. The jets listed for seizure are a Dassault Falcon 7X, a Boeing 737-7N6/BBJ and an Airbus A330-243 stationed at Paris-Le Bourget and Basel-Mulhouse airports. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited,, a Chinese company whose export processing zone management contract was revoked by the Ogun state government…

Aug

2024

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President Tinubu Okays 300% Salary Increase For Judicial Officers

FGN, Judiciary, Labour, News Flash

Tinubu Okays 300% Salary Rise For Judicial Officers President Bola Tinubu has signed the Judicial Office Holders Salaries and Allowances Bill into law. The Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Senator Basheer Lado, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. The National Assembly had in June approved a bill that grants a 300 per cent salary increase for judicial officers at the federal and state levels. This followed the consideration and adoption of an executive bill transmitted by the President which sought to prescribe improved salaries and allowances as well as other fringe benefits for judicial…

Aug

2024

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Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun Appointed New Chief Justice Of Nigeria

FGN, Judiciary, News Flash

Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun has been appointed as the New Chief Justice of Nigeria The former Chief Justice (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, has retired as a Supreme Court judge this August paving the way for the appointment of the second female to ever hold the post of CJN. Kudirat Kekere-Ekun (born1958), has been a Supreme Court judge since 2013, has succeed Ariwoola when he takes a bow on his controversial tenure. The constitution mandates that the president sends the name of the most senior Supreme Court judge to the Senate for confirmation as CJN when the incumbent retires. Kekere-Ekun is the most…

Aug

2024

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Exposed: Judge Who Restricted Abuja Protesters To A Stadium Is Wike’s Kinsman

Judiciary, News Flash, Politics

REVEALED: Judge Who Restricted Abuja Protesters To A Stadium Is Wike’s Kinsman Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, who gave the order restricting protesters of the just concluded #EndBadGovernance demonstration to MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja, hails from Obi Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, like Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. Chidi Odinkalu, a Professor of Practice in International Human Rights Law at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, drew attention to this, on Sunday. “I didn’t really want to be the person saying it but the @fcthighcourt judge who gave the…

Aug

2024

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Court Jails 24 Internet Fraudsters

Crime, Judiciary, News Flash

Court Jails 24 Internet Fraudsters Justice G. O. Imadegbelo of the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City, has sentenced 24 internet fraudsters to various jail terms. The fraudsters were prosecuted by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Benin Zone. This was made known in a post via the EFCC’s X handle on Friday, August 2. The post reads:”The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of 24 internet fraudsters to various jail terms by Justice G. O. Imadegbelo of Edo State High Court sitting in Benin…