Category: Judiciary

Justice John Tsoho, FHC Chief Judge. By Advocatenewsng.comA Federal High Court, Abuja has dismissed the suit challenging the late Kalabari High Chief, O.B. Lulu-Briggs’ transfer of his shares in Moni Pulo Limited to his wife, Dr. Seinye O.B. Lulu-Briggs, his daughters and the O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation. The suit was filed by the chairman of Platform Petroleum, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs and three others. Justice James Kolawole Omotosho while throwing away the case noted that Dumo’s suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1481/2021, was the…

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CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele. By Advocatenewsng.com A Federal High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, on Thursday resolved to wait on the Supreme Court, as it adjourned hearing in a suit brought against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) by a group, Social Rehabilitation Grace and Supportive Initiative (SRG), challenging the CBN over the voiding of old N200, N500 and N1000  Naira notes within a period considered too short.When the matter was mentioned, the trial judge, Hon. Justice T….

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Justice Olukayode Ariwola, CJN. Incontrovertible legal perspective. By Advocatenewsng.comThe decision of the Supreme Court on 6th February, 2023 in the case of Machina v. APC has raised a lot of dust.Much of the comments are largely made based on uninformed view of how the case played out and how civil proceedings work. I will throw more light on these issues so that we can see how some of us are acting like the proverbial fowl’s neck that is keeping malice with…

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Dr. Agbakoba, SAN. Legal analysis. By Olisa Agbakoba and Collins Okeke. Introduction WITH less than one month to the general elections scheduled to hold on February 25, the decision of the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal nullifying the July 16 governorship election, on the basis of over-voting even with the deployment of Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) has raised concern amongst Nigerians. The tribunal in its Judgment invalidated the election of Governor Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party…

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By Advocatenewsng.com A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, two former members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad for extra-judicial killing. Recall that five members of the SARS team, ASP Samuel Chigbu, Shedrack Ibibo, Magus Awuri, Ogoligo, and Olisa Emeka were standing trial for killing Michael Akor and Michael Igwe, while in their custody for allegedly stealing recharge cards in Oyigbo, Oyigbo Local Government Area in 2015. But ASP Samuel Chigbu and…

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Mr. Jonah Otunla. By Advocatenewsng.com THE Court of Appeal, Abuja, has set aside the judgment of a lower court barring the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from initiating either civil or criminal proceedings against a former Accountant General of the Federation, Jonah Otunla. According to the EFCC, a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, in a judgment, marked CA/A/657/2021, on Monday, January 30, 2023, held that Otunla failed to prove that there was actually a non-prosecution agreement between…

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The convict, Kenneth Amadi. By Advocatenewsng.com  A Federal High Court, Lagos sitting before Justice Ambrose Lewis-Alagoa today convicted and sentenced a businessman, Kenneth Amadi, the chief executive officer (CEO) IDID Nigeria Limited, to 18 months imprisonment over fraud of N2.4 billion. The judge arrived at the decision after finding him guilty of counts 4 and 5 of the criminal charge made against him by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), through the office of the Attorney General of the…

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Governor Adeleke heads to Appeal Court. By Advocatenewsng.com THE Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) which worked in Anambra to produce Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Edo, to produce Godwin Obaseki, Ekiti, to produce Biodun Oyebanji, eventually failed in Osun to produce Governor Ademola Adeleke as a clear winner of the election, since the election tribunal has voided his mandate, attributing it to over-voting in nine local government areas which INEC allegedly failed to acknowledge before announcing the final result of the…

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Sacked ADC chairman, Chief Ralph Okey Nwosu. By Advocatenewsng.comA Federal High Court, Abuja, sitting before Justice Binta Nyako, today delivered judgment in favour of Kinglsey Temitope Ogga and other plaintiffs in suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/1541/2022, and barred the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Chief Ralph Okey Nwosu from extending Nwosu’s tenure of office after it expired going by the extant provisions of the ADC Constitution. The court held that the party was bound by the extant provisions of its Constitution…

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CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele. By Advocatenewsng.com THE Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice John Tsoho, has rejected the suit filed by the Department of State Services to arrest governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele over terrorism financing charges. The Chief judge described the suit as an illegal operation and plot to deceive the court into granting a frivolous order to help them arrest and deprive an innocent man of his personal liberty. Delivering…

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