Di Department of State Services don carry suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele go Federal High Court in Lagos. Dis arraignment dey happun afta one Federal High Court for Abuja order di DSS to charge Emefiele before court or make dem release am nothing more than seven days. Tight security, with some DSS…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced the former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina to eight years imprisonment. This came after the court earlier found Maina guilty of inducing staff of a bank in the country to open accounts for him without conducting the requisite due diligence. Delivering the judgement, Justice…
Sahara Reporters’ publisher, OMOYELE SOWORE, has been sent to the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja on the orders of a Magistrate Court in Wuze Zone Two. SOWORE and four others with him were remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centres after they were arraigned in court earlier today. SOWORE and the others were arrested on New Year’s Eve…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a case challenging the second term election of Ondo State Governor OLUWAROTIMI AKEREDOLU. An APC governorship aspirant, NATHANIEL ADOJUTELEGAN, filed the case to challenge the nomination of Governor AKEREDOLU as the party’s candidate for the governorship election in October. However; Justice OKON ABANG agreed with the argument by the…
It appears that the Inspector General of Police, MOHAMMED ADAMU, is not aware of the lawsuit filed on behalf of the Nigeria Police Force, seeking to stop the ongoing judicial panels of inquiry into allegations of police brutality. This is because I.G.P. ADAMU has ordered an investigation into the lawsuit which was filed before a Federal High…
The Nigeria Police Force has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Judicial Panels investigating set by the government of various states across Nigeria. The Police want the court to stop the State Governors and their Attorneys Generals to stop the inquiries, claiming that such exercise was against the Constitution of Nigeria. The lawsuit…