Tag: Court
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Onnoghen: Court Gives Buhari, Acting CJN, Others 7 Days To Appear
A Federal High Court in Abuja has summoned President Muhammadu Buhari, the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad and others to appear before the court over the removal of former CJN Walter Onnoghen. Justice Inyang Ekwo on Friday also directed members of the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC), the Federal Government of the…
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For Wearing Skimpy Dresses, Court Sentence Two Women In Kaduna
A Shari’a Court II sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, on Tuesday sentenced 20-year-old Farida Taofiq and Raihana Abbas to two months in prison each for wearing skimpy dresses. Taofiq and Abbas, residents of Argungu road in Kaduna, were convicted after they pleaded guilty to “constituting public nuisance and indecent dressing.” The two convicts however pleaded…
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Court orders DSS to produce Dasuki
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama has ordered the issuance of a production warrant on the Department of State Services (DSS) to compel it to produce detained former National Security Adviser (NSA), Mohammed Dasuki on the next date. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf gave the order in a ruling on Tuesday at…
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I Have Not Resigned, Says Suspended CJN Onnoghen
— As NBA Orders Lawyers to boycott court for two days in protest of Onnoghen’s removal The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, who was suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday, has debunked the rumour gaining traction online on Monday that he has resigned. Onnoghen, whom President Muhammadu Buhari replaced with the next…
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Breaking: Court Restrains Buhari, AGF, From Removing CJN
Justice Inyang Ekwo has granted an order of interim injunction restraining President Buhari and the AGF from removing the CJN from office pending the hearing and determination of the suit filed by Action Peoples Party. The Justice made the ruling at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, January 21. The court adjourned the…
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Lawyer Slaps Judge Over His Decision
An Indian lawyer, Dinesh Parate, is facing a criminal contempt of court charge after he assaulted a Bombay High court judge, who had given a judgement, he didn’t like. According to Afternoon Voice, Parate had accosted and slapped senior civil judge K R Deshpande outside a lift on the seventh floor of the Nagpur District…
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Former Attorney-General Sent To Prison By Court For Telling Lies
In order to ensure justice prevailed, a Pennsylvania judge has ordered the commonwealth’s former attorney general to report to prison by 9 a.m. Thursday, more than two years after she was convicted for leaking grand jury information and lying about it. Democrat Kathleen Kane, 52, had been free on $75,000 bail while she appealed her…
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Don’t Entertain Suit Seeking To Probe Me For Corruption, Oshiomhole Tells court
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to strike out a suit seeking an order compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate allegations of corruption against him. Justice Anwuli Chikere, on Tuesday, fixed November 19 for the hearing of the notice…
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Court Upholds Buhari’s Executive Order On Seizure of Assets Linked To Corruption
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday upheld the validity of the Presidential Executive Order 6 of 2018 which provides for the interim seizure of assets linked to ongoing criminal trials and investigations. President Muhammadu Buhari had on July 5, 2018, issued the Presidential Executive Order, which two lawyers, Ikenga Ugochinyere and Mr. Keneth…
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Contempt: Police Fails To Arrest INEC Chairman Even As Court Insists
The Nigeria Police has failed to arrest the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, for court contempt despite the insistence of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The Court reaffirmed his position today again and insisted that the Inspector-General of Police must arrest and produce the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in court on August 16, 2018,…