The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has rejected the re-appointment of Mr Cyprian Akaolisa as Imo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of the state by Governor Hope Uzodinma. This is even as the party has pointed out that the re-appointed Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General is a non-lawyer having been […]
The Benin branch of the Nigerian Bar Association on Tuesday began a boycott of High Court 6 presided over by Justice Courage Ogbebor over alleged highhandedness. Senior and junior lawyers have complained over the activities of the judge, including a situation where she was said to have delayed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, instructing him […]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, on Tuesday, warned Secretaries and administrative staff members of the judiciary to stop leaking court judgements for pecuniary gains. He implored judicial officers across the federation to stay away from corrupt tendencies, vowing to wield the big stick against anyone found wanting. The CJN spoke at […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the unfreezing of the bank account of the Chairman of Daar Communications, Raymond Dokpesi. The Chief Judge of the court, Justice John Tsoho, held that the account should be unfrozen immediately since Dokpesi has been discharged and acquitted of the charge upon which the freezing […]
Chief Magistrate’s Court 4 sitting in Yola, Adamawa State on Monday, sentenced Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Hong Local Government Area, Ikamu Kato, to one year imprisonment for insulting the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari; and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha. The PUNCH had reported that the […]
The Federal High Court Abuja on Monday adjourned the suit brought by the 12 detained aides of Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to August 4. Justice Egwuatu granted the applicants’ lawyer, Pelumi Olagbenjesi, the leave to amend his processes to correct the names of the applicants. There was confusion in court regarding the […]
The Department of State Services (DSS), on Monday, seized a phone belonging to a Vanguard Photojournalist, Mr Gbenga Olamikan, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The DSS operatives confiscated the phone following Olamikan’s bid to take snapshots of the 12 detained associates of Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, who were […]
Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the new charge filed by the Kaduna state government against Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), and his wife, was hurriedly done to prevent the couple’s release from custody. El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, were arraigned on an eight-count charge bordering on […]
Kaduna State Government yesterday said it has filed further charges against the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky under the Treason and Treasonable Offences Act before a Federal High Court. This is coming less than 24 hours after a Kaduna State High Court discharged and acquitted El-Zakzaky and his wife, […]
The Kaduna State High Court on Wednesday discharged and acquitted the leaser of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who was accused of culpable homicide, disruption of public peace and unlawful assembly in a charge brought against him and his wife by the Kaduna State government, TribuneOnline is reporting . Justice Gideon Urada upheld […]
