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Legal pundits at the two-day workshop on proper funding of the judiciary for equal access to justice held in Abuja…. recently. From left to right: DG of Office of Public Defender, Abdullahi Zakari, DG of Legal Aid Council, Nigeria, Aliyu Bagudu, Prof David Blake, Hon Justice Reginald Fynn of the Court of Appeal, Sierra Leone, Ebelechukwu Enedah and Jason Downs of District of Columbia, USA. By Executive Editor, Judiciary.A two-day workshop on achieving effectiveness in the quest for equal…

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By Executive Editor, Judiciary. A judge of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Justice Ambrose Lewis Allagoa on Friday last week threatened to close the prosecution’s case in the trial of Mr Kenneth Amadi who is being prosecuted by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) over an alleged N2.9 billion fraud. The judge in a tone suggestive of an unequivocal finality told the prosecuting team that if by the next adjourned date it fails to produce its…

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By Executive Editor, Judiciary. Access Bank must now be considering to wear a double thinking cap to continue to prosecute its N50billion case it brought against the late business mogul, Chief Sonny Odogwu and his estate, as one of its partners and co-plaintiff, Siete Trading Limited, has withdrawn from the suit it filed along with Access Bank Plc against the estate of Chief Odogwu and other defendants at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos.The defendants are Robert Dyson &…

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By Executive Editor, Judiciary. A Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos sitting before Justice Ayokunle Faji will on Monday, January 24, 2022 deliver judgment in a case of N6, 441, 369, 617.73 alleged illegal charges brought against Zenith Bank Plc by an independent oil marketer. The judgment was initially fixed for December 13, 2021 which was unavoidably stalled as a result of the statutory judges’ conference holding at that period. At a resumed sitting of the court last week, Justice Faji,…

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By Executive Editor, Judiciary (Advocatenewsng.com).  A prosecution witness and accountant with Eunisell Ltd, Mr. Philip Enejo Odekina has confirmed before a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos that  Mr. Kenneth Ndubisi Amadi (1st defendant), did not steal the alleged Eunisell’s N2.9  billion for which he is standing trial at the court.Mr Odekina, the second prosecution witness made the confirmation on Thursday January 20, 2022 while testifying before a Federal High Court presided over by Justice Ambrose Lewis Allagoa in the…

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By Executive Editor, Judiciary. (Advocatenewsng.com) The Administrators of the Estate of late business mogul, Chief Sonny Odogwu, (and other companies associated to him) have asked the Federal High court, Lagos to decline jurisdiction on a suit filed by Access Bank Plc, seeking to take over the late businessman’s project financed property over alleged unpaid debt.They made the application in a preliminary objection filed by their counsel, Chief Anthony Idigbe, SAN, at the court sitting before Justice Daniel Osiagor, in…

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