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Presidential Election: Why LP, PDP shouldn’t panic over INEC’s objections – Effiong
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Presidential Election: Why LP, PDP shouldn’t panic over INEC’s objections – Effiong

2 years ago605 min

Inibehe Effiong, a legal practitioner and social critic, has urged people not to panic over the Independent National Electoral Commission’s, INEC’s, objections to the admissibility of documents at the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Tribunal hearings, calling them a distraction. Effiong claimed that the INEC-obtained documents had been duly certified and that the Court would act on them. On Thursday, the legal expert claimed that “the Electoral Commission’s neutrality is a mirage, especially in electoral litigations”...

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Allison-Madueke sues EFCC, Malami’s office for N100bn defamation
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Allison-Madueke sues EFCC, Malami’s office for N100bn defamation

2 years ago6106 min

Diezani Alison-Madueke, former Minister of Petroleum Resources in former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation for N100 billion in libel and defamation. In the suit marked CV/6272/2023, filed at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday, May 26, Alison-Madueke was represented by a team of her lawyers led by Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate....

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PDP using social media to bully judges – Supreme Court
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PDP using social media to bully judges – Supreme Court

2 years ago954 min

According to the Supreme Court, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is using social media to bully and terrorize justices. On Friday, Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court delivered judgment in an appeal filed by the PDP seeking to void the election of President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the grounds that his running mate, Kashim Shettima, was guilty of double nomination. The appeal was dismissed by a five-member panel of the Supreme Court, which determined...

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EFCC charges Lagos businesswoman Ramalan-Yaro, company for N140bn fraud.

2 years ago9962 min

Two weeks after her first arraignment, Lagos State’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned businesswoman Saadatu Ramalan-Yaro again on Monday. Money laundering charges of over N140 billion were brought against the businesswoman before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja. As director of Tsami Babi Resources Limited, a designated non-financial business, she is accused of not submitting the company’s activities. Ramalan-Yaro deposited N100 billion into the company’s Zenith Bank account without informing...

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Money laundering: Court postpones Mompha’s trial until July 3
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Money laundering: Court postpones Mompha’s trial until July 3

2 years ago765 min

Due to the absence of his attorney, Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offenses Court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, May 15, 2023, adjourned the next hearing in the alleged N6 billion fraud trial involving Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha, until July 3, 2023. Wilson Uwujaren, a spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, disclosed in a letter that our correspondent was able to obtain on Monday night.   Uwujaren pointed out that...

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Oyetola Congratulates Adeleke on Supreme Court Judgement
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Oyetola Congratulates Adeleke on Supreme Court Judgement

2 years ago1214 min

Former Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, accepted the Highest Court of the Land’s decision on Tuesday, which upheld Senator Ademola Adeleke’s election as the State’s legitimate governor. In a statement personally signed and made public by the former governor, he said that while the Supreme Court’s decision went against the wishes of his party’s members and supporters, he accepted it in the interest of peace and development in the state. Oyetola urged his party’s...

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Enugu community demands justice for Udeh, APGA candidate for governor who was killed
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Enugu community demands justice for Udeh, APGA candidate for governor who was killed

2 years ago1085 min

The residents of Ozalla community in Enugu state’s Nkanu-west local government area have demanded that the killers of late Engr Dons Udeh, a former APGA candidate for governor in the 2023 election, be identified and prosecuted. Yesterday, the community presented the charger to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, the Department of State Security, the Police, and all state-operating security organisations. Udeh was reported missing on April 22. His cell phone was allegedly discovered at...

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EFCC, ICPC ask court to dismiss Keyamo’s lawsuit seeking Atiku’s investigation
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EFCC, ICPC ask court to dismiss Keyamo’s lawsuit seeking Atiku’s investigation

2 years ago754 min

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit filed by the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, seeking an investigation and prosecution of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) also requested that Keyamo’s case be dismissed by Justice James Omotosho. In the suit filed on January 20, the minister, who was also a spokesman...

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Four to die for murder; teacher receives life sentence for rape

2 years ago872 min

Four men have been found guilty of murder and given the death by hanging sentences by the Jigawa State High Court, which is sitting in Ringim and is presided over by Justice Ahmad Abubakar. Salahu Yau, Aminu Salmanu, Salmanu Shafi’u, and Yusuf Sale are the prisoners. The men were charged with violating sections 100, 342, 97, and 221 of the Penal Code, Cap. 3, Law of Jigawa State, 2014, on four counts of criminal conspiracy,...

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Breaking: Appeal Court president asks transfer of Ebonyi election tribunal to Abuja
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Breaking: Appeal Court president asks transfer of Ebonyi election tribunal to Abuja

2 years ago663 min

The Ebonyi State Election Petitions Tribunal must move to Abuja right away, per a directive from Court of Appeal President Monica Dongban-Mensem. On Wednesday, Nyior Sekulla, the tribunal’s secretary, made the announcement in Abakaliki. He claimed that as a result of the directive, the tribunal office at the Abakaliki location of the Ebonyi State Judiciary Headquarters has been closed as of Wednesday. He stated that all proceedings pertaining to the tribunal’s cases would continue in...

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