The former Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council of the Labour Party, LP, Dr Doyin Okupe, who was convicted over a breach of the Money Laundering Act, has gone to the Appeal Court to appeal his conviction. In a Read more…
Category: Judiciary
Israel condemned and the Palestinians welcomed on Saturday a United Nations General Assembly vote asking the International Court of Justice to provide an opinion on legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. The Friday vote presents a challenge Read more…
In an affidavit in response to the ex parte, the EFCC stated that it has no case against the governor and that Emefiele was not under its investigation. Onigbanjo applied for the remand pursuant to Section 264 of the Administration Read more…
A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged a policeman, Drambi Vandi, with murder, for allegedly shooting and killing a Lagos-based female lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, on Christmas Day, The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Chief Magistrate, Mrs. C.A. Read more…
Others equally restrained by the court order are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria, who are listed as 1st, 2nd and 5th defendants. Justice M. A. Hassan Read more…
The traditional ruler of Nawfia community, Njikoka local government area of Anambra State, Igwe Chijioke Nwankwo has raised the alarm over alleged harassment and intimidation by the state police command. He told LEADERSHIP that he was driving out from his Read more…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the nomination of Uche Ogah as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 governorship election in Abia. A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal on Read more…
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has alleged that a subsisting court order forms the basis for the sealing off of the campaign office of the Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in Port Harcourt, Read more…
Imo State Police command has dismissed seven officers found guilty of extortion and other corrupt practices. In a statement signed by the command’s spokesperson, Michael Abattam in Owerri, the state capital, he said the officers were found guilty in an Read more…
Shell will pay 15 million euros ($15.9 million) to communities in Nigeria that were affected by multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger Delta, the oil company on Friday said in a joint statement with the Dutch division of Friends Read more…
Amid conviction of ex Labour Party Director-General, Dr. Doyin Okupe, a former President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Joseph Daudu (SAN) has stated that the embattled party chieftain has not been found guilty of fraud or corruption by the Read more…
Prince John Edema Okotie-Eboh , the scion of Nigerian first finance minister, has condemned the Federal Government of Nigeria for allowing the Senate to confirm Lauretta Onochie, as the Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Read more…