Category: Judiciary

Former Lagos AG, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, (middle), at the Federal High Court premises Ikoyi, Lagos…….. today. By Advocatenewsng.com. NIGERIA’s anti-corruption agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, arraigned Lagos ex-governor Babatunde Raji Fashola’s former Attorney-General, Olasupo Shasore (SAN), for allegedly laundering $200,000 while in office. The Lagos Zonal Command of the Commission arraigned the AG on a four-count charge bothering on money laundering to the tune of $200,000 before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court…

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By Advocatenewsng.com. AN Abeokuta Federal High Court, sitting before Justice Joyce Obehi Malik, on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 dismissed the suit filed by All Progressives Congress, (APC) against the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) and three others in suit number, FHC/AB/CS/149/2022 brought to challenge the candidacy of Hon Ladi Adebutu, the PDP governorship candidate for Ogun State and his running mate, Hon Adekunle Akinlade and their party, the PDP, over their qualification to contest the 2023 governorship election in…

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IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. By Advocatenewsng.com. The legal advice forwarded to the Presidency by the Attorney General of the Federation, (AGF), Abubakar Malami, SAN, might have informed the decision of the Security Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, October 14, 2022 to ignore the Court of Appeal verdict ordering for the unconditional release from DSS custody of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. According to the Minister of Police Affairs,…

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Leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. By Advocatenewsng.com. THE long walk to freedom has finally happened to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as the Nigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on Thursday upheld his appeal and unlocked the gates of his incarceration to free him from custody. The court also discharged and acquitted the embattled leader of IPOB, thereby stopping further trial of the freedom fighter by…

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Justice Monica Bolna-an Dongban-Mensem, President, Court of Appeal, Nigeria. LEGAL OPINION. By Barr Hafizu Isah. WHEN the Federal Court of Appeal was established in 1976 following Decree (now Cap. C36 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004) the aim was to help lighten the burden of the Supreme Court. In other words, it came to serve as a bridge between the Lower Courts and the Apex Court. Owing to the 31st December, 1983 Military Intervention and the promulgation of…

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By Advocatenewsng.com. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Tuesday, sentenced a 26-year-old lawyer, Yetunde Sulaimon, to five years imprisonment for drug trafficking. Justice Daniel Osiagor handed down the sentence to the convict after she pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and unlawful export of 1.10 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa. Earlier, when the convict was arraigned, the prosecutor, Mr. Abu Ibrahim, had told the court that the convict, who resided around Aguda, Surulere area of Lagos, was arrested…

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Participants at the AGA-Africa organised two-day training workshop for lawyers on Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets…… at Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos on Thursday last week. By Advocatenewsng.com. ATTORNEY General Alliance – Africa, a non-governmental, political or profit oriented organisation spread across the globe and working in partnership for justice has concluded a two-day training workshop for a select few privileged members of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA) on the use of Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets. The aim, according…

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By Advocatenewsng.com. THE Federal High Court in Lagos has stopped President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Broadcasting Commission from revoking the licenses of 53 broadcast stations in the country, and shutting down the stations for allegedly failing to renew their licenses. Justice Akintayo Aluko (Court 8) on Monday, granted an order of interim injunction following the hearing of an argument on motion exparte by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) and the Nigerian Guild of Editors, (NGE). SERAP…

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Popular Nigerian musician, Naira Marley. By Advocatenewsng.com. JUSTICE Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja High Court in Lagos State sentenced Taiwo Oreagba, a former lawyer to a Nigerian singer, Naira Marley, to two years in prison on Friday for inducing the operatives with N4million bribe. After a two-year trial, Justice Taiwo found Oreagba guilty. Oreagba previously defended “Am I a Yahoo boy?” singer Naira Marley in his ongoing alleged internet crime-related prosecution. The judge said that Oreagba had not refuted…

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Outgoing general secretary of NBA, Mrs Joyce Oduah. By Advocatenewsng.com. THE ratification of suspension of Barrister Joyce Oduah as general secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association has been nullified by a Federal High Court in Abuja. The ratification effected by the National Executive Council of the NBA was on Tuesday voided and set aside by the court on the ground that the action was an affront to the rule of law and violation of court’s proceedings in the matter….

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