Category: Judiciary

Chief Olanipekun, SAN, Chairman, Body of Benchers. By Advocatenewsng.com THE Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has renewed its call on Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN to resign his chairmanship of the Body of Benchers (BoB). The BoB is the statutory body saddled with the primary responsibility of calling Law graduates to the bar and generally regulating the legal profession in Nigeria. Chief Olanipekun, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and former President of the NBA, has been enmeshed in controversy since…

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Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State. By Advocatenewsng.com Cross River State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade has won his case challenging his senatorial ambition to the Cross River North Senatorial District in the 2023 general elections. The Hon. Justice Nkeonye Evelyn Maha of the Federal High Court, Abuja, delivered judgement in favour of Governor Ayade and dismissed the Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/1232/2022, instituted by Cecilia Omonya Adams, who had claimed to be the rightful senatorial candidate. Ayade had through his…

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Judgment Creditor/Applicant, Chief Anthony Ajibola Aribisala, SAN. By Advocatenewsng.comIN the celebrated judgment of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in the case of Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu v Governor of Lagos State (1986) 1 NWLR, (Part 18), 621 at 636-637, their lordships put the position of the law this way: “The rule is well settled both by the courts of England and of this country, that where a suit is brought to enjoin certain activities…. of which suit the defendant…

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Ugochukwu Nsofor with two of his mansions at VGC, Lagos. By Advocatenewsng.com  A Lagos-based alleged billionaire drug baron, Kennedy Ugochukwu Nsofor, a.k.a Ugochukwu Nsofor Chukwukadibia arraigned before the court by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over alleged possession and storage of 5,340 kilogrammes of Tramadol, a substance similar to Cocaine, Heroin and LSD was on Friday admitted to bail. The defendant  who is the Chairman of Autonation Motors Ltd was granted bail by the trial judge, Justice…

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By Advocatenewsng.comA High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Abuja, presided over by Justice O. A. Adeniyi, on November 2, 2022, delivered a 94 page landmark judgment in favour of Benedict Peters, in the five-year old legal tussle between Benedict Peters and three companies on the one hand and the EFCC, the Attorney General of the Federation and 5 others, on the other hand. The court consequently awarded the sum of N200m damages jointly and severally against the…

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Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. By Advocatenewsng.com THE Central Criminal Court in London, the United Kingdom, on Monday, adjourned the trial of Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, over alleged organ harvesting from May 2023 to January 31, 2023. The arguments will be heard on the 16th or 19th of December 2022 before the commencement of the trial in January. The lawmaker and his wife, Beatrice, were arrested on June 23, 2022, and charged with alleged conspiracy to traffic…

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Senator Ike Ekweremadu, former Deputy Senate President. By Advocatenewsng.com A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to the embattled former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is currently in custody in the United Kingdom. Justice Inyang Ekwo made the order following an ex-parte motion filed and moved by Ibrahim Buba on behalf of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. While granting the order, the Judge ordered the EFCC to…

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CEO of Air Peace Limited, Mr. Allen Onyema. By Advocatenewsng.com. THE CEO of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema, his company and one Ejiro Eghagha have been exonerated from any shady deal in the alleged fraudulent transaction of Letters of Credit raised for the purchase of some aircraft for Air Peace by a US District Court, Atlanta, Georgia and the Attorney of the Northern District of Georgia. This clarification came from the United States Attorney for Northern District of Georgia…

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IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. By Advocatenewsng.com. THE Appeal Court in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital has upheld the judgment acquitting and discharging the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), lead counsel to the lawyers representing the separatist leader on Monday said the court upheld its ruling of October 13, which set Kanu free. The Nigerian government had sought a stay of execution on the ruling of the Court of Appeal acquitting and discharging Kanu….

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Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke. By Advocatenewsng.com. JUSTICE Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, October 24, 2022, ordered the final forfeiture of two Abuja properties and two luxury cars belonging to a former minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the Federal Government. The two properties are located at Plot 1854 Mohammed Mahashir Street, and No. 6, Aso Drive, in the highbrow Asokoro and Maitama Districts of Abuja are valued at $2,674,418USD…

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