Category: Legal
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CSO, IPC Reacts As NBC Fines Arise Tv & Channels Television
Civil society organisations and the International Press Centre have kicked against the sanction imposed on Arise and Channels television stations by the National Broadcasting Commission for publicising a fake statement credited to the Independent National Electoral Commission. The statement said INEC was in talks with the United States over drug trafficking allegations made against the…
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Breaking News: Appeal Court Discharge Nnamdi Kanu
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday upheld the appeal of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The court also discharged and acquitted the embattled leader of the proscribed group. Kanu had in his appeal dated April 29 and marked CA/ABJ/CR/625/2022 applied to…
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FG, ASUU Fail To Reach Out Of Court Settlement
The lawyers for the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Thursday, told the Court of Appeal that both parties could not resolve the eight months old strike, despite the out-of-court settlement as advised by the Appellate Court. The FG’s lawyer, James Igwe, and lead counsel for ASUU, Femi Falana (SAN),…
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Court Bars LP’s Supporters From Converging At Lekki Toll Gate
The Labour Party’s #ObiDatti23 Forward Ever Rally scheduled to be held on October 1, 2022, suffered a setback on Wednesday as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordered the party and its supporters not to converge on the Lekki Toll-Gate. The court ruled that supporters of the Labour Party can pass through the Toll-Gate…
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Court Declares Bashir Machina As APC’s Senatorial Candidate
The Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu has ordered the All Progressives Congress and the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise Bashir Machina as Yobe North senatorial candidate of the party. The presiding judge, Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu, nullified the parallel primary election that produced the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on June 9, 2022. The…
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Court Orders OSIEC To Stop Planned LG Elections
Federal High Court in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has ordered the State Independent Electoral Commission to stop its preparations for the conduct of local government elections. This followed the commencement of training for the commission’s ad hoc staff for the October 15 election across local governments in the state. The Peoples Democratic Party, Osun…
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Court Grants Ogun State, House Of Assembly Speaker
The Ogun State House of Assembly Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo and two others were on Tuesday remanded in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s custody by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State over alleged N2.475 billion money laundering. Justice Daniel Osiagor ordered that they should be remanded for one week in the EFCC’s custody,…
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Court Dismiss Extradition Suit Against Abba Kyari
Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, rejected an application filed by the Federal Government to extradite the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, to the United States of America to face trial over his alleged involvement with a notorious internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who delivered the…
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NBC Shutdown AIT, Silverbird TV, Others
The National Broadcasting Commission, on Friday, directed the African Independent Television, Silverbird Television and the broadcasting corporations run by various state governments to shut down their operations within the next 24 hours over debts amounting to at least N2.6bn. The Director-General of the NBC, Balarabe Ilelah, disclosed this to journalists at the commission’s headquarters in…
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Court Sentence Killer Of Akwa Ibom Job Seeker To Death By Hanging
Akwa Ibom State High Court has sentenced Uduak Akpan, the first accused in the murder of Akwa Ibom job seeker, Iniobong to death by hanging. The convict was sentenced to death by hanging and life imprisonment in the two charge of murder and rape preferred against him. Akpan attempted to escape shortly after the sentence…