The Court of Appeal in Abuja has nullified the conviction and seven-year imprisonment of former spokesperson of the People’s Democratic Party, OLISA METUH. A three-man panel of Appeal Court led by Justice STEPHEN ADAH nullified the judgment against METUH by Justice OKON ABANG of the Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice ADAH ruled that the judgment by…
Senator ALI NDUME will Thursday, November 26, 2020, know whether he will be released from the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja after he must have spent his third night there. Senator NDUME’s release would depend on the strength of his argument in the bail application filed by his lawyers, which he fixed for hearing tomorrow. Senator NDUME…
The All Progressives Congress has dragged the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party for Lagos East Senatorial bye-election to the Federal High Court in Ikoyi for alleged forgery. The Lagos APC alleged that BABATUNDE GBADAMOSI forged his WAEC certificate and lied under oath, and wants the court to have him disqualified from the election on December 5,…
Two lawyers have filed papers in court to stop the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS and the shooting of EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate. ADEKUNLE AUGUSTINE and SIMEON AKOGWU want the Federal High Court in Lagos to disband the panel because Governor BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU is a party in the…
The Federal Government has been slammed with another lawsuit over attempts to gag the broadcast media in Nigeria, through the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The latest lawsuit filed by Chief Festus Ameh Ogwuche of Crownfield Solicitors at the Port Harcourt Division of the Federal High Court follows a similar action by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project,…
A former registrar of the Federal High Court JOSEPH UDOH has been sentenced to four years in prison for converting eighty million naira. The Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna sentenced UDOK to one year in prison for each of four counts charges, which are to run at the same time. The charges against UDOH were filed…