The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, leave to submit evidence of her acquittal by a United Kingdom court in her ongoing trial in Nigeria initiated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Read more…
The Department of State Service (DSS) has arraigned five associates of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Silva, before the Federal High Court in Abuja over allegations that they concealed information about the whereabouts of their principal, who the Read more…
By Ijeoma John, Nnewi The Nnew Chamber of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture (NCCIMA) has flagged off the Igbo Apprenticeship Programme (Igba-Boyi. The community and its environs popularly known as the Japan of Africa is one of the major commercial Read more…
The decision of the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, to set aside its earlier judgment recognising the Nigeria Democratic Coalition (NDC), yesterday continued to receive widespread condemnation.The presiding judge, Justice Isah Dashen, on Friday set Read more…
PREMIUM TIMES reported that the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, on Friday, set aside its earlier judgement directing INEC to register NDC as a political party. The presidential candidate of the The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has expressed Read more…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has rejected Friday’s Federal High Court ruling vacating the judgment that led to its registration, insisting the party remains legally recognised and announcing plans to immediately challenge the decision at the Court of Appeal. In Read more…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja division will July 7, hear the appeals filed by the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Accord and three other political parties against their deregistration. A three-member panel of the appellate court fixed the date on Thursday, Read more…
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) has approved the suspension of Chief Mike Ozekhome’s Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) status. The decision taken at the LPPC’s 173rd General Meeting held on Tuesday, was made pursuant to Paragraph 26(6) of the Read more…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign Bello Abdullahi Bodejo before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over allegations bordering on terrorism financing and money laundering to the tune of $2.530 million. According to the Read more…
The Supreme Court said the lawyer’s application fell far below acceptable legal standards and described it as one of the most “thoughtless and irresponsible applications” ever brought before the court. The Supreme Court of Nigeria has ordered a lawyer, S.M. Read more…
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, has lost his bid to vary the bail conditions imposed on him by the Federal High Court, Abuja. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, ruling yesterday, refused El-Rufai’s application to relax the conditions attached to his bail. Read more…
Justice Mohammed Umar has ordered the detention of the presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore at the Kuje Correctional Center in Abuja following the revocation of his bail and the bench warrant for his arrest. Sowore, who Read more…