Category: Legal
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Akpata floors Adesina, Ajibade, emerges NBA president
Lawyers in the country have elected Mr. Olumide Akpata as next President of the Nigerian Bar Association NBA. The announcement was made at 12:56a.m., on Friday, by Chairman of the NBA Electoral Committee, Taiwo Taiwo(SAN). Akpata won the election with over 50 percent of the total votes cast. His rivals for the office of NBA…
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Appeal court sacks Kwara Assembly member
The Court of Appeal, Ilorin Division, on Wednesday ordered the immediate swearing-in of Raheem Agboola, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the Ilorin South state constituency in the 2019 general elections into the Kwara State House of Assembly. The appellate court dismissed the motion filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the…
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Maina released from Correctional Centre
The former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who is being prosecuted on money laundering charges, has been released from the Kuje prison in Abuja. A lawyer in his defence team, Ademola Adedipe, confirmed this to our correspondent on Tuesday. Adedipe said Maina had been in detention since November 2019 following…
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Court slams life imprisonment on 35-year-old man for defilement of minor
On Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, has sentenced a 35-year-old man, Adekunle Olalere, to life imprisonment for defiling a two-year-old girl. Olalere was, on Tuesday, convicted of one count of having sexual intercourse with the victim. The convict, who resides at No. 18 Bashorun Street, off Unity Road, Olowotedo, Mowe, had pleaded…
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Supreme Court ruling: I accept my fate — Alaibe
A former Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant, Mr Timi Alaibe, on Thursday accepted the judgment of the Supreme Court which dismissed his appeal challenging the emergence of Governor Douye Diri, as the party’s candidate in the 2019 governorship election. Alaibe, in a statement titled, “Alaibe Vs Others: It Is A Party Affair, Says…
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Court jails son of visually impaired man for stealing Church offering
The son of a visually impaired man, Emmanuel Nwonu, was on Thursday, sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment without an option of fine by an Ebonyi State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abakaliki for stealing church offering. The convict, had penultimate Wednesday, stolen an undisclosed amount of money and a phone from a woman in the Udunukwe…
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Tompolo wins N34bn fraud case against FG
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed the entire 40 counts bordering on alleged N34bn fraud filed by the Federal Government against Global West Vessel Specialist Limited, a company linked to a former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. The PUNCH reports that other defendants in the case were a former…
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Diri floors Alaibe at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the appeal filed by a governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State, Timi Alaibe, challenging the emergence of Governor Duoye Diri as the party’s candidate in the last year’s election. A five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour dismissed…
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Appeal Court affirms governor Yahaya Bello’s election
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Saturday affirmed the election of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. A five-man panel of the court was unanimous in dismissing the four appeals filed, challenging the decisions of the election tribunal which earlier upheld Bello’s election. The panel led by Justice Adamu Jauro, held that the appellants…
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BREAKING: Governor Yahaya Bello Triumphs at Appeal Court
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Saturday affirmed the election of Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello. It also dismissed four appeals challenging his victory at the November 16, 2019 poll. The five-man panel led by Justice Adamu Jauro, in separate unanimous judgments, dismissed the four appeals for lacking in merit. The appeals dismissed were filed…