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…
A witness of the Department of State Services (DSS) in the ongoing trial of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the former governor allegedly admitted during a televised interview that conversations Read more…
Ojukwu Transport Limited (OTL) has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to intervene in what it described as attempts to enforce a court judgment that is currently the subject of an appeal in a protracted dispute over several high-value Read more…
The recent judgment by Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, deregistering the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Accord and others, is as intriguing as it is unsettling. On one side, many Nigerians see a conspiracy. ADC leaders frame the Read more…