Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has been ordered by the court to vacate office with immediate effect. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja gave the directive on Monday, June 27, 2017. Ikpeazu was sacked from office by the court for submitting false information to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, for the party’s…
The trial of former National Security Adviser, NSA, to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki, has been adjourned till Monday, July 4, 2016. At the proceeding on Wednesday, Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the Abuja High Court, shifted the trial to another date after the prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), requested for an adjournment. Jacobs, in a…
A member of the House of Representatives from Enugu State, Dennis Amadi, has been axed by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Amadi was sacked by the court in a ruling delivered last Friday. Justice Okon Abang, in his judgement, noted that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries election that produced Amadi as a…
A petition filed by James Faleke against the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, at the state’s election tribunal, has been thrown out. While delivering the judgment on Monday, June 6, 2016, the tribunal held that Falake has no locus stand to file any petition against the election of Bello as governor and therefore dismissed…
Justice Okon Abang of Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ruled that Olisa Metuh will not be allowed to seek medical attention abroad as he had requested. The judge ruled on Wednesday that the court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the application filed by the spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, because he…
Amaju Pinnick has been removed by a court judgment as president of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF. A ruling by a Federal High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, on Friday, April 8, 2016, nullified the elections that brought Pinnick as president as well as other board members of the Federation. The ruling came following…
A Court of Appeal in Lagos has directed Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, to re-assign a winding-up petition by Ecobank Nigeria Limited against Honeywell Flour Mills Plc. Justice Abimbola Obaseki-Adejumo said justice demands that both sides must be heard. She made no order as to cost. The justice upheld an…
Popular Nigerian musician, Innocent Idibia, well-known as 2Face, has been slammed with a lawsuit by a photographer at a Federal High Court in Lagos. The photographer, Emmanuel Okolo, alongside his company, Papilonmexy Films Studios Limited, filed a N120 million copyright infringement suit against the artiste, his wife, Annie, and one Anthonio Anifite before Justice Mohammed…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been directed by an Abuja High Court sitting in Jabi to release immediately former aide to the immediate past National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, Nicholas Ashinze. Ashinze had been in custody of the anti-graft agency since December 23, 2015. At the hearing on Monday, Justice Yusuf…
The abductor of 14-year-old girl, Ese Oruru, Yunusa Dahiru, has been arraigned before a Federal High Court judge in Bayelsa. Yunusa, fondly called Yellow, was taken to court on Monday on a five-count charge. He is being accused of abduction, illicit $ex and unlawful canal knowledge among others of a minor at the court sitting…