JUDICIARY

By News Desk The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will today arraign former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Osun Defender reports that Mamman, who was a minister under former President Muhammadu Buhari from 2019 to 2021, was sacked by Buhari alongside the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,…

By Reuben Abati AMID controversies trailing judgments of various courts handling election disputes, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, yesterday, said that public sentiments, and emotions cannot replace the law. “The law remains the law, no matter whose interest is involved. In all we do, as interpreters of the law, we should…

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kogi State has adjourned pending the completion of inspection of election materials by the Social Democratic Party. At the resumed hearing, the SDP said the INEC was cooperating with the inspection of materials as granted by the order of the Tribunal, but sought for more time. Recall that…

By NEWS DESK The Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lokoja has granted Counsel to the first applicant in the just concluded governorship election, Muritala Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, the leave of the court, compelling the first respondent in the petition, Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) to allow access to materials…

By Musa Tanimu Nasidi A Federal High Court of Nigeria, Abuja Judicial Division, has ordered the Director General, State Security Service, Director-General, National Intelligent Agency and Inspector General of Police to probe the activities of Kogi State Special Task Force on Illegal Smuggling of Firearms. The court ordered the Director General of SSS and the…

By News Desk The suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele wept in Court on Thursday after the High court of the Federal Capital Territory adjourned his arraignment to August 23, 2023. The case, according to reports was stalled due to the absence of another defendant, Sa’adatu Yaro, in a corruption and conspiracy…

By Alfaki Musa A federal high court in Kano has fixed September 22 to deliver judgement in a suit filed by Abdullahi Ganduje, former governor of the state, seeking to stop his investigation and arrest over allegations of bribery. In 2018, Daily Nigerian, an online newspaper, published a video of Ganduje allegedly receiving bundles of…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the Presidential Election Petitions Court sitting in Abuja that it was unaware of the over 20-year old United States District Court judgment which ordered President Bola Tinubu to forfeit $460,000 suspected to be proceeds of narcotics trade. According to INEC, the case was not brought to its…

By News Desk President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday tendered a copy of the Labour Party (LP) membership register for Anambra State in proof of their claim that Peter Obi is not a registered member of the party. Tinubu and Shettima had argued, in their response to the petition by Obi…

By our Correspondent A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Idris Wada Saleh, in Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission custody over alleged N1 billion fraud. The defendant, a former Commissioner to Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, is standing trial on a…