Category: Judiciary

Ex-CBN Governor, Mr. Emefiele. By Advocatenewsng.com A Lagos Special Offences Court, sitting before Justice Rahman Oshodi at Ikeja Judicial Division, Lagos will not today deliver its ruling on the bail application moved last Monday by Mr. Abdulhakeem Labi Lawal, counsel to former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele. This is because Thursday, April 11, 2024 originally scheduled for the ruling on the bail application by the court was unknowingly subsumed by the Nigerian Government, after it extended…

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Barr Owolabi. By Advocatenewsng.com A Lagos High Court sitting before Justice S.I. Sonaike at Tafawa Balewa Squire (TBS) Lagos, has fixed April 29, 2024 for the arraignment of two lawyers, Ademola Owolabi, the managing partner of Ademola Adetokunbo & Co., and Adebayo Akeju, a partner in a law firm called Adon Partners, Lagos, including a real estate developer, Alex Ochonogor.   Ochonogor is the owner and managing director of Bluecrest Homes Limited, where Owolabi is also the company secretary….

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 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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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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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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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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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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