Thursday, 28 November, 2024

Category: Judiciary


The Labour Party (LP) has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba to immediately conclude the investigation into the alleged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate forgery by the Enugu State Governor-elect, Peter Mbah. The Labour Read more…


The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Thursday in Abuja told Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, lead counsel to Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he was citing an old law against the request by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party Read more…


The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, has said that the All Progressives Congress could  have succeeded in moving Nigeria forward if it had chosen Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as its candidate. Obi Read more…


But for the timely intervention of police officials, angry supporters of Peter Obi suspected to be sympathetic to the Julius Abure faction of the Labour Party, would have attacked Acting National Chairman, Mr Lamidi Apapa. Apapa was attending the court’s Read more…


Levi Onyeukwu, counsel to Peter Obi complained to the Tribunal, that his team is yet to get more than 70 percent of the documents from INEC, and other parties, especially documents from Rivers State. This is despite the INEC chairman’s Read more…


A civil society organization under the aegis of the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative, ASRADI, on Tuesday, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja with a suit that is seeking to halt the scheduled Read more…


A Chief Magistrates’ Court 1 sitting in Bauchi, on Tuesday, admitted a Bauchi-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Idris Abdulaziz, to N1 million bail bond with three sureties. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abdulaziz was arraigned before the court Read more…


The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday, gave reasons it resorted to the trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendants behind closed doors. The counsel for the NDLEA, Mr Sunday Joseph, told newsmen who were Read more…


A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of afrobeat singer Seun Kuti for alleged assault on a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Olatubosun, held that Kuti should Read more…


Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that Nigeria’s constitution must be followed to the letter in electing president. Datti, who spoke on Monday at a conference organised by the Coalition of Nigerians living Read more…


Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, restrained the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and its Director, Corps Certification, Ibrahim Muhammad, from issuing, publishing or continued to issue, publish disclaimer to the effect that the Read more…


The ongoing legal battle for the soul of Seplat Energy Plc, an indigenous oil and gas company, has now shifted to the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, where the company is praying the court to set aside the Read more…