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Govt romances Gumi, asks him to reveal bandits’ activities

Sheikh Gumi. Advocatenewsng.com THE Federal Government says it has invited Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, over his comments on the activities of bandits in the country. This was disclosed by the Minister of Information and Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on Monday while addressing journalists at the State House, Abuja. Idris said Gumi is not above the law, noting that the government has deemed it necessary to invite him for questioning. The media report that the cleric offered to dialogue…

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Court orders parties to maintain status quo in Rivers State House of Assembly crisis

 By Advocatenewsng.com A Federal High Court, Port Harcourt division, sitting before Justice Phoebe Ayuba has ordered the parties in Rivers State House of Assembly crisis to maintain status quo in the matter pending the hearing of the motion on notice filed together with the main suit by the new Speaker of the House and the House of Assembly. Ruling on the motion filed in the suit, the trial judge ordered that none of the parties on record should do…

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Abusi plantain chips for healthy, crunchy experience

Abusi plantain chips. By Advocatenewsng.com The taste of the pudding is in the eating. So it is with Abusi plantain chips, a daily food product made for all ages except babies who are yet to grow teeth and the very elderly that have lost majority of their teeth due to indulged lifestyle at their youth. As a matter of fact, the chips are eaten at any time of the day and all seasons as occasion demands for one to…

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NICON destroys octogenarian property in Lagos despite court order

Dr. Ndulue’s damaged house at Alma Beach, Lekki, Lagos. By Advocatenewsng.com A multi-million naira property at Alma Beach Estate, Lekki, Lagos, belonging to an Octogenarian and  retired gynaecologist, Dr Albert Ndulue, for which a Lagos High Court has made an order for parties in the civil litigation suit to maintain status quo, was last week Monday badly vandalised by NICON over what can be referred to as mistaken identity. Dr Ndulue is the claimant in the suit labelled  LD/27/67/GCMD/2018 pending…

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Caveat Emptor: Funmi Taylor warns trespassers on property to stay clear

By Advocatenewsng.com A prominent Lagos socialite and the Caveator, Mrs. Funmi Abike Taylor has sent out a warning to the public asking whoever is intending to trespass on her choice property in Nigeria, particularly in Lagos to stay clear as she has no intentions for now to lease, sell or part with any of such property to any one no matter the person’s status in the society. In a letter addressed to one Mr. Remi Awode, the chairman and…

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Supreme Court affirms Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President of Nigeria

President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima. By Advocatenewsng.com President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima, were on Thursday, October 26, 2023 confirmed as president and vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria respectively by the Supreme Court of Nigeria after affirming the judgment of the trial tribunal, the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) which on September 6, 2023 upheld the victory of the duo in the February 25, 2023 presidential election. The apex court…

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Court arraigns, grants instant bail to NSITF staff in drug trafficking charge

Justice John Tsoho, CJ, FHC. By Advocatenewsng.com  A Federal High Court Ikoyi, Lagos, sitting before Justice  Ambrose Lewis Allagoa on Thursday October 19, 2023 activated one of its rules of discretion when it arraigned and instantly granted bail to a female staff of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Miss Ekwejunor Oritsematosan who the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) charged alongside a company, Femaffix Global Services Limited of no fixed address, whose owner and CEO, one Mr….

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Court shifts date for contest over legitimacy of First Bank’s AGM, GMD, others

By Advocatenewsng.com  IT is now official that a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has fixed October 30, 2023, to hear the contestation of the suit brought by some shareholders of First Bank Holdings Plc in which they are seeking the nod of the court to determine the status of the 10th Annual General Meeting of the bank which took place last year during which the Group Managing Director (GMD) Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo and a non executive director, Mr….

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PDP loses on appeal as A’Court affirms APC’s Senator Eshinlokun’s election for Lagos Central

Senator Wasiu Sanni Eshinlokun. By Advocatenewsng.com THE Court of Appeal, Lagos, sitting in Abuja, has dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate for Lagos Central District, Mr. Francis Adewale Gomez, and affirmed the judgment of the trial tribunal in Lagos that confirmed the election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Wasiu Sanni Eshinlokun. By this judgment of the appellate court, the political ambition of Gomez to represent the good people of Lagos Central…

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Tribunal sacks Ikenga Ugochinyere, Imo PDP House of Reps member, orders supplementary election

Ikenga Ugochinyere. By Advocatenewsng.com The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Imo State has nullified the election of Mr Ikenga Ugochinyere of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the member representing Ideato North/South Federal Constituency in the 2023 election. In a unanimous decision on Sunday, a three-member panel of the tribunal which conducted its proceedings in Nasarawa State, held that Ugochinyere was not validly nominated by the PDP to contest the election. Consequently, it ordered the Independent National…

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