JUDICIARY

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…

By our Correspondent The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyanya Judicial Division, has struck out a defamation suit instituted by Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan a Senatorial Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in Kogi State, against Governor Yahaya Bello. In a ruling delivered on Friday, June 16 2023, by Justice Idris Mua’wiya, the Court struck…