News as it breaks
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has affirmed the election of Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the duly elected Governor of Edo State. In a unanimous judgment delivered by a five-man panel led by Justice Mohammed Garba Lawal, the apex court dismissed the appeal filed against Okpebholo’s…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and celebrity barman, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, have reached an agreement to resolve the naira abuse charge outside of court, The Nation Newspaper reports. The out-of-court settlement was disclosed when the proceedings resumed on Thursday. Cubana Chief Priest appeared before…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed the no-case submission by the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Ndifon, and his lawyer, Sunny Anyanwu. The professor is currently standing trial on four amended counts of alleged sexual harassment and gratification…
A Baltimore County Circuit Court in the United States of America presided over by Theresa Adams, has slammed a record $50,000 damages on a US-based Nigerian blogger, Funke Ashekun, for defaming the General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr Daniel Olukoya. A statement on Thursday by Olukoya’s media…
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Gudu, Abuja, has ordered the Inspector General of Police to pay N50m damages to the wife of late Chief M. K. O Abiola, Prof Zainab Abiola, for violating her fundamental rights. The court, in the judgment that was delivered by Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi,…
The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has declared the prolonged detention of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, without trial as a flagrant violation of his fundamental rights. The court slammed a total of N100m fine against the Federal Government and the Economic…
The Kano chapter of All Progressives Congress on Sunday dismissed a viral report that it had a clandestine meeting with President Bola Tinubu and the leadership of the party to influence the outcome of the Supreme Court appeal filed by the New Nigerian People’s Party. The development comes two months…
The Republic of Niger’s ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum, who has been held in detention since a July 26 coup, must be freed immediately, the court of the West African bloc, ECOWAS, ordered on Friday. The court called for his “immediate and unconditional release” and ordered that Bazoum be reinstated, according…
Court Restrains Kano Anti Graft Agency, Police From Arresting Ganduje
The court also ordered that Kyari and his sureties should deposit their international passports, statements of accounts, title deeds of the sureties’ properties and recent passport photographs with the court registrar as part of the bail conditions.
