Category: Judiciary

  Uche Secondus, PDP chairman. The High Court in Port Harcourt has restrained Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed from further publishing the name of the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), Uche Secondus, in looters’ list. The Chief Judge of Rivers state, Justice Iyayi Laminikara, who presided over the matter of libel, asked the plaintiff to serve the defendant with the appropriate notice. The defendants or their representatives were absent in court. Secondus had on March…

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Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, Nigeria Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has withdrawn an alleged murder case against the state chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief Jide Awe and other party members in the state. Awe, his aide, and other members of APC in the state have been on trial for alleged murder of late  Madam Juliana Adewunmi,  and Murphy Jeje,  members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2013. Late Madam Adewunmi was the mother of…

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  EFCC operatives A former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, today disowned five extra-judicial statements which she made to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2016. The ex-minister is being prosecuted for an alleged fraud of N650 million by the anti-graft agency before a Federal High Court, Lagos. Her counsel, Mr. Olusegun Williams, resisted the move by the anti-graft agency to tender the statements in evidence. Williams contended that the statements were obtained from…

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A Nigerian court sitting at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos has discharged and acquitted a foreign airline, Emirates Airlines and 10 others in the alleged conspiracy and stealing of $1.630 million belonging to one Prince Ikem Orji. The airline and other defendants in the case were alleged to have conspired and stolen four bags, one of which contained $1.630 million on December 19, 2007 at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Justice Mohammed Idris in his ruling held…

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  IGP Ibrahim Idris Justice Abba-Bello Muhammad of the FCT High Court, Abuja on Tuesday dismissed the suit filed by the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, alleging violation of his fundamental human rights by the Senate. The judge said that the suit lacked merit as Section 88 and 89 of the Nigerian Constitution empowers the lawmakers to carry out investigations on issues of public interest. Joined in the suit are the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, the senator representing Bauchi…

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 Ex- South African President, Zuma Jacob Zuma, the immediate past South African President, who was forced out of office over alleged impropriety, appeared in court today (Friday) to face corruption charges relating to a $2.5 billion arms deal. The 75-year-old man, whose scandal-plagued nine years in office, marked by economic stagnation and credit downgrades, is facing 16 charges including fraud, racketeering and money laundering. Mr Zuma denied any wrongdoing and is challenging the decision to prosecute the case, a…

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Ex-Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu An investigation officer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Rosin Owobo on Tuesday told a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos  how the anti graft agency recovered N2.4 billion and $115,000 from former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu. Owobo, who told Justice Mohammed Idris that Amosu returned the N2.4b via bank drafts at the agency’s Lagos and Abuja offices also stated that his team recovered $115,000 in one of…

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   A Federal High Court, Owerri, Imo State, presided over by Justice Allagoa has sentenced a 25 year old Chidiebere Duru to three years imprisonment for unlawfully tampering with a 200KVA transformer belonging to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company(EEDC). An indigene of Umuafai Village, Dikenafai, Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State was convicted by the court after he was found guilty of vandalizing a transformer located at Umuejim Nnenato, Dikenafai, Ideato South LGA, an act contrary to…

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Olajumoke Akinjide, ex-FCT minister A Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos was on Friday told to expunge the evidence of an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Usman Zakari, from the court’s record. Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, and two others currently facing trial over alleged N650 million fraud yesterday, through their lawyers,  Chief Bolaji Ayorinde (SAN), Micheal Lana and Akinola Oladeji, asked Justice Muslim Sule Hassan, to expunge the evidence of the investigator….

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