Barring last-minute change, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will arraign the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, before an FCT High Court on Wednesday, for approving the printing of N684.5m naira notes at Read more…
The Governor of Rivers State, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has disclosed that the state government would set up a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate how the affairs of governance were conducted in the State before he assumed office. The Governor Read more…
After he was arrested in 2022 over an alleged rape, armed robbery and other crimes, a children, sexual and Gender-based Violence (GBV) Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has found one Michael Arinze not guilty of the said offences contained Read more…
Femi Falana (SAN) insists Rivers State House of Assembly members who decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have lost their positions in the lawmaking body.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?gdpr=0&client=ca-pub-2023028789149162&output=html&h=300&slotname=5559997686&adk=2850476258&adf=3614527647&pi=t.ma~as.5559997686&w=360&abgtt=7&lmt=1715566022&rafmt=1&armr=1&format=360×300&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenigerialawyer.com%2Ffalana-san-insists-rivers-lawmakers-who-defected-to-apc-have-lost-their-seats-says-fubara-cant-dictate-legislatures-meeting%2F&host=ca-host-pub-2644536267352236&fwr=1&rs=1&rh=375&rw=360&rpe=1&resp_fmts=3&sfro=1&wgl=1&dt=1715574725034&bpp=19&bdt=4224&idt=-M&shv=r20240508&mjsv=m202405070101&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3D06bd9a19950fee80-228db99240e000ff%3AT%3D1690064131%3ART%3D1715574069%3AS%3DALNI_MbC8skCs4ebnwglGM5u4k6lTU5mHw&gpic=UID%3D00000d040e7e3532%3AT%3D1690064131%3ART%3D1715574069%3AS%3DALNI_MaUaQ3b_8VGnevtHWowzDhtzfQSsw&eo_id_str=ID%3Dbed612196c3467bf%3AT%3D1706831129%3ART%3D1715574069%3AS%3DAA-AfjYSRgOf6GOKi6lJ12o6iGNz&prev_fmts=0x0&nras=1&correlator=3214784674648&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=2052961092.1690064131&ga_sid=1715574722&ga_hid=1095864079&ga_fc=1&rplot=4&u_tz=60&u_his=50&u_h=800&u_w=360&u_ah=800&u_aw=360&u_cd=24&u_sd=2&dmc=4&adx=0&ady=1637&biw=360&bih=688&scr_x=0&scr_y=0&eid=44759875%2C44759926%2C44759842%2C42531644%2C95329718%2C95331982%2C31083490%2C95331043%2C95332402%2C95332415&oid=2&pvsid=4076636329459965&tmod=1533292831&uas=3&nvt=1&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fthenigerialawyer.com%2F&fc=1920&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C360%2C0%2C360%2C688%2C360%2C688&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7CoeEbr%7C&abl=CS&pfx=0&fu=128&bc=31&bz=1&psd=W251bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLDNd&ifi=2&uci=a!2&btvi=1&fsb=1&dtd=723 About 25 lawmakers loyal to the immediate past Read more…
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has barred the Speaker of the state Assembly loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, and the other 24 lawmakers from parading as members of the Rivers Read more…
Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Delegated Legislation, Hon. Dominic Okafor, denied on Friday the allegation of a $140 million bribe from Binance Executives. Hon. Okafor spoke during a press briefing held at the National Assembly complex Read more…
Rivers Governor Siminalayi Fubara has gazetted the Executive Order 001 relocating the House of Assembly to the Auditorium, Admin Block of the Government House, Port Harcourt. The gazette dated December 14th, 2023, cited the burning of the Hallowed Chamber of Read more…
Justice Sylvanus Orji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court has granted bail to the immediate past minister of aviation Hadi Sirika, his daughter Fatima and others in the sum of N100 million each. The court also ordered the accused Read more…
An elder statesman and leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark. has written to the Inspector General of Police, asking him to intervene in the political crisis in Rivers State. Rivers is boiling following the feud between Read more…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike “over their failure to account for N5.9 trillion and $4.6 billion loans obtained by their Read more…
American Military Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID) in United States, and a British businessman, Barry Sutton, have written letters to Justice Binta Nyako, urging her to obey the Supreme Court judgment in the case Nnamdi Kanu. In the letters made Read more…
On Friday, the Ikeja Special Offences Court adjourned until May 9 for the defence to study additional proof of evidence submitted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele. Read more…