Category: Judiciary

Mr. Okoli (SAN). Mr. Chijioke Okoli is a senior advocate of Nigeria, (SAN) and a former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Lagos premier branch. In this interview with the publisher of The Advocate News, IBE UWALEKE, he bares his mind on the ongoing case reviews at the Supreme Court and warns that the apex court should hold its integrity high and not allow Nigerian politicians to drag it into disrepute. (Excerpts): Is there any jurisprudential essentials to…

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Former Minister of Aviation, Fani-Kayode. By Editor. The rial of two former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s ministers: Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman and Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode and two others, over N4.6 billion money laundering charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), continued this morning for the second day running before a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, after the cross examination of a prosecution witness, Mr Shehu Shuaibu yesterday.Shuaibu is a…

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By Editor. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has again scored another point in the war against corruption as it has caused a Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere to convict and sentence yet another businessman, Jideofor Franklin Akpa, to 10 years imprisonment over N30 million fraud. Justice K. O. Jose, who presided over the court also fined the convict’s company, International Maritime and Shipping Limited the sum of N10 million, after being found culpable of the offences…

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Ex-Abia governor, Orji Uzor Kalu. By Editor-in Chief. The frantic efforts made on December 17, 2019 to hurriedly pull himself out of prison custody after being convicted on a 39-count charge and sentenced for 12 years for stealing N7.65 billion belonging to Abia State Government, Orji Uzor Kalu, the ex-governor of the state, was disappointed today, Monday December 23, 2019, when a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos sitting before Justice Mohammed Liman rejected his bail plea and asked him…

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By our Correspondent. A Federal High Court, Lagos, today, dismissed a winding-up suit against an indigenous oil company, Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company Limited (AEEPC). The court presided over by Justice Olufemi Oguntoyinbo, dismissed the winding-up suit, following an application made by AEEPC’s counsel, Mr. Emeka Ozoani, to dismiss the application in opposition to withdrawing of the application made by  A. A. Adekeye, lawyer to Charlietam International Services Limited (CISL), the petitioner in the suit. The petitioner, CISL in a…

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Convener/ Chief host of the 2019 SPA Ajibade and Co. annual business luncheon, Dr. Babatunde Ajibade, SAN, (left), and a former NBA president, Mr. Austin Alegeh, SAN, pose for a photograph at the event. By Editor-in-Chief. The SPA Ajibade and Co. annual business luncheon, took place on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at the prestigious Radison Blu Hotel on Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. This was the 12th edition in the series which featured the best and well-endowed legal…

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