The Supreme Court on Friday, March 12, 2021, upheld the 10 years prison term imposed on former Plateau Governor, who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for fraud. It would be recalled that the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on November 16, 2018 affirmed the ruling of the Federal Capital Territory…
jkk Ecobank Nigeria Limited has urged the Supreme Court to set aside a Court of Appeal verdict on its winding-up petition against Honeywell Flour Mills Plc over an alleged 3.5billion debt. Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos last December 4 froze Honeywell’s accounts following an application by Ecobank’s lawyer, Mr. Kunle…
National President of Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Ibinabo Fiberesima, has headed for Supreme Court after a court of appeal on Friday affirmed the judgment of a Lagos High Court hearing a manslaughter charge against her. In a unanimous decision delivered in court by Justice Jamilu Yammama Tukur, the earlier sentence of a Magistrate Court…
The Supreme Court on Friday, February 26, 2016, affirmed the ruling of a Lagos High Court that sentenced Lagos-based man of God, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, popularly known as Reverend King, to death by hanging. Rev King is the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Lagos. The Supreme Court found the accused guilty of the charges…
The three Senators representing Anambra State in the National Assembly have now been removed by the Supreme Court. Earlier sacked by the court was Senator Uche Ekwunife from the Anambra West Senatorial District. On Friday, the apex court removed the two remaining Senators; Stella Oduah and Andy Ubah from Anambra Central and South Senatorial Districts…
A Supreme Court judgement delivered by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta has removed the acting governor of Taraba State, Garba Umar, from office. The court order the immediate swearing-in of a former deputy governor of the state, Abubakar Danladi, as the new acting governor. Danladi contested the governorship election as running mate to ailing Dantata Suntai, who…