Senator Dr Tony Nwoye of the Labour Party (LP) was affirmed on Thursday as the duly elected Senator for Anambra North Senatorial District, by the court of appeal sitting in Lagos. The three-member panel held that the appeals against the lawmakers lacked merit and unmeritorious. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had, on Feb. 25,…
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old motorcycle rider, Idris Agunbiade, to 21 years imprisonment for armed robbery. Justice Sherifat Sonaike sentenced Agunbiade after she found him guilty of the offence of conspiracy to commit robbery and armed robbery. The judge said that the sentence should run…
The Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State has dragged President Bola Tinubu to court for allegedly appointing a member of his party, the All Progressives Congress as Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The suit was filed by the Chairman and Secretary of the state PDP, Aniekan Akpan and Harrison Ekpo,…
An Abuja High Court, yesterday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to release the embatled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. Respondents in the suit are the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Attorney General of the Federation, Chairman of EFCC and the EFCC. Recall that Emefiele, who was…
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Isiokpo Division in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state has issued an interim order restraining the state House of Assembly and the Speaker of the House, Martin Amaewhule from carrying out any action with respect to the impeachment of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Also restrained are the House…
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court stting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, adjourned till December 19, 2023 further hearing in the alleged N6bn fraud trial involving social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission made this known on its Facebook page. Mompha alongside his company, Ismalob…
The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, deferred till December 5, hearing of an appeal that is seeking to invalidate the years that Senator Hope Uzodinma spent in office as the Governor of Imo state. Though the appeal, which has stayed over three years in the docket of the apex court, was initially fixed for hearing on…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has given the All Progressives Congress candidate for the Bayelsa state governorship election, Timipre Sylva, the nod to contest in the November 11 poll. An Abuja Federal High Court had on October 9 disqualified Sylva from the contest following a suit by a member of the APC in…
The National Industrial Court sitting in Owerri the Imo state capital has issued an extended interim injunction restraining the organised Labour from embarking on any kind of strike in Imo state. Both the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress are further ordered not to embark on OCCUPY IMO, as planned, until the next adjourned…
An application by the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Senator Aisha Binani, seeking to stop the prosecution of the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commission, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, has been struck out by an Abuja Federal High Court. The court had previously given an interim order, directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Attorney-General…
