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Jun

2024

Court Orders Final Forfeiture Of N12.18 Billion Abuja Properties Linked To Emefiele

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Court Orders Final Forfeiture Of N12.18 Billion Abuja Properties Linked To Emefiele The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has permanently forfeited to the Federal Government properties valued at N11,140,000,000.00 (billion) and N1.04 billion linked to the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke made the order of final forfeiture after hearing a motion filed and argued by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), through its counsel Chineye Okezie. The judge had on June 5, 2024, upheld the anti-graft agency’s motion filed an argued by its counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN), for an interim…

Jun

2024

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FG Unveils Mobile Courts To Curb Bullying, S3xual Assault In Schools

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FG Unveils Mobile Courts To Curb Büllying, S3xual Assãult In Schools The federal government has unveiled mobile courts and new guidelines for hotels and schools to ensure speedy access to justice for cases of gender-based violence, sexual assault, and bullying. NAN reports that Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, the women affairs minister, was at an Abuja partnership meeting with the stakeholders involved. The stakeholders include representatives from the ministries of health and education, medical facilities, hotel owners, NGOs, and CSOs. Mobile courts are easily moved from one place to another to adjudicate disputes and administer justice. Kennedy-Ohanenye noted the alarming cases of sexual…

Jun

2024

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Xclusive: Court Document Reveals How $6.2m Stolen From CBN Was Shared Amongst Top Officials

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EXCLUSIVE: Court Document Reveals How $6.2m Stolen From CBN Was Shared A fresh revelation has emerged in the ongoing investigation into the alleged theft of $6,230,000 from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on February 8, 2023. According to court documents, the stolen funds were shared among top officials of the apex bank, with the personal assistant to the former CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, Odoh Eric Ocheme, receiving the largest share of $3,730,000. The documents reveal that the theft was an insider job, carried out by CBN officials in collaboration with two outsiders, Adamu Abubakar and Imam Abubakar. The investigators…

Jun

2024

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Federal High Court Declares Jurisdiction For Dethroned Emir Ado Bayero

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Federal High Court Declares Jurisdiction For Dethroned Emir Ado Bayero In a landmark ruling, Justice Liman Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Kano has declared that the dethroned Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, has the jurisdiction to be heard in court. The ruling, delivered today, establishes that the former Emir’s case merits judicial consideration, allowing him to present his grievances and seek redress through the legal system. The case filed by the kingmaker, Aminu Baba Dan Agundi, is that of a fundamental human rights case in the emirate tussle. The development comes days after a Kano State High…

Jun

2024

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LG Autonomy: Supreme Court Reserve Judgement On FG’s Suit Against 36 Governors

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(LG Autonomy): Supreme Court Reserve Judgement On FG’s Suit Against 36 Governors The Supreme Court has reserved its judgement on the suit the Federal Government filed to secure full autonomy for the 774 Local Government Areas, LGAs, in the country. A seven-man panel of the court, led by Justice Garba Lawal, on Thursday, okayed the matter for judgement, after governors of the 36 States of the Federation, through their respective Attorney-Generals, adopted their briefs of argument. The states, in separate preliminary objections they filed before the apex court, sought the dismissal of the suit with substantial cost. They contended that…

Jun

2024

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Wife Beaters To Get Three Years Jail Term – Govt Declares

Judiciary, Love & Life, Marriage And Love, News Flash

Wife Beaters To Get Three Years Jail – Govt Declares The Niger State Government has said that wife beaters in the state will spend three years imprisonment on conviction. The Niger State director of planning, research and statistics in the Ministry of Women Affairs, Mary Yisa, disclosed this on Tuesday to journalists while speaking on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse/Sexual Harassment in Minna. Yisa said the state now has a robust legal, policy noting that henceforth, any person who batters his or her spouse in the state, is liable to conviction to a term of three years imprisonment. Pointing out that…

Jun

2024

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Tribunal Fines Multichoice N150m, Order Free One-month DSTV, Gotv Subscriptions

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Tribunal Fines Multichoice N150m, Order Free One-month DStv, Gotv Subscriptions Pan television service provider, Multichoice Nig. Ltd has been fined N150 million by the Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal (CCPT) for disobeying its order on subscription rates hike for DStv and Gotv packages. The tribunal, sitting in Abuja, also ordered the PayTv operator to give a one-month free subscription to all its Nigerian subscribers on the DStv and Gotv platforms, for flouting its order. The three-member tribunal chaired by Thomas Okosun in a ruling, found Multichoice culpable of contempt, by flouting its earlier order restraining the PayTv operator from implementing…

Jun

2024

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Kano Emirship Tussle: Court Fixes Date For Ruling On Jurisdiction

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(Emirship Tussle): Court Fixes Date For Ruling On Jurisdiction A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has fixed June 13 for ruling on the issue of jurisdiction in the case of Kano emirate tussle. The Court, presided over by Justice Abdullahi Muhammad Liman, adjourned the sitting following a heated argument between counsel. According to Daily Trust, the applicant, Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, Sarkin Dawaki Babba of the Kano Emirate, had approached the court, asking it to restrain the respondents from enforcing, implementing and operationalizing the repealed law. The respondents in the suit are Kano State Government, Kano State House of…

Jun

2024

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Court Orders Forfeiture Of Properties Worth N11.14 Billion Linked To Emefiele

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Court Orders Forfeiture Of Properties Worth N11.14 Billion Linked To Emefiele A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Wednesday, granted an order for the interim forfeiture of properties valued at N11.14 billion linked to a former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele. According to POLITICS NIGERIA, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke issued the order following a motion ex parte filed and argued by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Rotimi Oyedepo. The court’s order mandates the interim forfeiture of these properties to the Federal Government. Oyedepo informed the court that Emefiele…

Jun

2024

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Court Gives Fresh Order In Bribery Case Against APC National Chairman Ganduje, Wife

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Court Gives Fresh Order In Bribery Case Against APC National Chairman Ganduje, Wife A Kano State High Court has granted an order to serve the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, his wife, Hafsat Umar, and son, Umar Abdullahi, with bribery and misappropriation charges. The Kano State Government had filed an eight-count charge against Ganduje, his family members, and several others, including Abubakar Bawuro, Jibrilla Muhammad, and three companies – Lamash Properties Limited, Safari Textiles Limited, and Lasage General Enterprises Limited. The charges allege misappropriation and diversion of public funds totalling billions of Naira during Ganduje’s…