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May

2024

Fubara Wins As Court Nullified Amendment Of LG Law By Pro-Wike Lawmakers

Fubara Wins As Court Nullifies Amendment Of LG Law By Pro-Wike Lawmakers The Rivers State High Court has invalidated the amended Local Government Law proposed by the Martins Amaewhule faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The ruling was delivered in a suit numbered PHC/1320/CS/2024, which challenged the extension of tenure for LG chairmen for six months after the expiration of their term. Justice D.G. Kio, presiding over the case, declared the amendment invalid, citing its inconsistency with the 1999 Constitution and Section 9(1) of the Rivers State Local Government law No. 5 of 2018. The court emphasized that…

May

2024

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Court Rejects Nnamdi Kanu’s House Arrest, Fresh Bail Request

Human Rights, Judiciary, News Flash

Court Rejects Nnamdi Kanu’s House Arrest, Fresh Bail Request The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, dismissed the request of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, for bail or to be moved from the Department of State Security Service custody to a prison or house arrest. The trial Judge, Justice Binta Nyako, said the same request had been brought before her by the defendant and it was dismissed for lack of merit. While delivering her ruling, Justice Nyako, held that she found as a fact that Kanu jumped the bail when he was earlier granted.…

May

2024

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Court Dismissed Suit Seeking To Compel INEC To Conduct Fresh Election To Replace Defected Rivers Lawmakers

Judiciary, News Flash, South South

Court Dismissed Suit Seeking To Compel INEC To Conduct Fresh Election To Replace Defected Rivers Lawmakers A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday struck out a suit filed by the Labour Party seeking an order compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct fresh election in the Rivers House of Assembly to fill the seats of the defected lawmakers. Justice James Omotosho struck out the suit after counsel for the party, F. I. Adariku, applied to withdraw the suit. In the suit, the LP had sought the order of the court to compel the commission to conduct fresh election…

May

2024

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Appointment Of Members Of The ABIA State Judicial Service Commission

Abia State, Good Governance, Judiciary, News Flash

May 8, 2024 PRESS RELEASE APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE ABIA STATE JUDICIAL SERVICE COMMISSION The Abia State Governor, His Excellency, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, has approved the re-constitution of the members of the Abia State Judicial Service Commission (Commission). Consequently, Governor Otti has nominated the following persons as members of the Commission pending their confirmation by the Abia State House of Assembly: Mr. Chibuzo Irobi – Member Mr. Finecountry Iyioku – Member Prof. Chukwu Udensi – Member Engr. Moses Ogbonna – Member SIGNED:Kazie UkoChief Press Secretary to the GovernorAbia StateGovernment House, Umuahia.

May

2024

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SERAP Sues Wike, 36 Governors Over Failure To Account For N5.9trn, $4.6bn Loans, Publish Agreements

Judiciary, FGN, News Flash

SERAP Sues Wike, 36 Governors Over Failure To Account For N5.9trn, $4.6bn Loans, Publish Agreements Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike “over their failure to account for N5.9 trillion and $4.6 billion loans obtained by their states and the FCT, and to publish copies of the loan agreements, including details and locations of projects executed with the loans.” The suit followed the disclosure last month by Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State that the immediate past administration of Nasir El-Rufai left…

May

2024

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Court Grants EFCC’s Request To Freeze 1146 Bank Accounts

Crime, Judiciary, News Flash

Court Grants EFCC’s Request To Freeze 1146 Bank Accounts [DETAILS] Amid FX crisis, An Abuja Court has granted the request of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission to freeze at least 1,146 bank accounts belonging to individuals and companies over allegations of unauthorized dealing in foreign exchange. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had alleged that many Nigerians are involved in Foreign Exchange racketeering leading to instability in the Foreign exchange in Nigeria. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on the ex-parte motion moved by counsel for the anti-graft agency, Ekele Iheanacho, also granted the commission’s application to conclude the…

Apr

2024

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A Kogi High Court Has Directed The Chairman Of The EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, To Present Himself Before The Court

Judiciary, News Flash

A Kogi High Court in Lokoja has directed the Chairman of the EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, to present himself before the court on May 13 to provide a reason for his possible disobedience of its order. Justice I.A. Jamil of High Court IV issued the directive when presiding over Case No: HCL/68M/2024 and Motion No: HCL/190M/2024, Presented to him by former Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi in Lokoja. “The said act was carried out by the Respondent (EFCC) in violation of the order, which was valid and subsisting when they carried out the act. “That same act of the respondent amounts…

Apr

2024

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Court Sets Date To Decide On Validity Of Ola Olukoyede’s Appointment As EFCC Chairman

Abuja, Judiciary, News Flash, Politics

Court Sets Date To Decide On Validity Of Ola Olukoyede’s Appointment As EFCC Chairman Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned till June 19, for judgment in a suit seeking the sack of Mr Ola Olukoyede as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC). The judge fixed the date for judgment after lawyers representing parties adopted and argued their briefs of arguments for and against the suit. An Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr Victor Opatola, had last year dragged President Bola Tinubu to court, over the appointment of Olukoyede. Opatola, in the…

Apr

2024

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Court Orders Mohbad’s Wife To Do DNA Test

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Court Orders Mohbad’s Wife To Do DNA Test A Magistrate Court sitting in the Ikorodu area of Lagos has ordered that singer late Mohbad’s wife, Wunmi, be served notice of a pending DNA test application, by substituted means. A statement signed by a member of the legal team to the Aloba family, Monisola Odumosu, disclosed this on Wednesday, April 17. Mohbad’s father, Joseph Aloba, in the application filed by the legal team to the family sought an order to serve Wunmi by posting all the originating processes and other processes in the suit on the last-known address of the respondent.…

Apr

2024

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Naira Abuse: Court Grants Cubana Chief Priest N10m Bail

Crime, Judiciary, News Flash

Naira abuse: Court grants Cubana Chief Priest N10m bail The Federal High Court in Lagos State, on Wednesday, granted businessman and socialite, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, N10m bail with two sureties in like sum. Earlier, the celebrity bar man pleaded not guilty to tampering and abusing the naira during his trial. Cubana Chief Priest was arraigned before Justice Kehinde Ogundare on three counts bordering on abuse of naira by allegedly spraying and tampering with the nation’s currency at a social event, contrary to the provisions of the Central Bank Act of 2007. He was alleged to…