A Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to shut down all expenditures of River State Governor Siminalayi Fubara pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit field by the Martin Amaewhule-led state Assembly. In a ruling on the motion ex-parte moved by a Senior Advoctate of Nigeria (SAN), Sebastien Hon, Justice Emeka Nwite rather ordered the plaintiffs to …

Kaduna-Former Governor Nasiru Ahmad El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State has petitioned the Chief Judge of the Abuja Federal High Court, alleging that Justice Rilwan M. Aikawa, the judge presiding over his case against the Kaduna State House of Assembly at the Federal High Court Kaduna, was biased. In the petition filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja by his counsel, Abdulhakeem …

Justice Hamza Muazu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has rejected an application by former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, for permission to travel to the United Kingdom for a follow-up medical checkup. Justice Muazu, in a ruling, held among others, that Emefiele failed to supply sufficient materials to show that …

The Appeal Court in Abuja has confirmed Usman Ododo’s election as the Governor of Kogi State. On Thursday, a three-member panel of the court delivered a judgment dismissing the election petition filed by the Social Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Murtala Ajaka. The appellate court dismissed the appellants’ claims, saying that they failed to present credible evidence to substantiate …

The Supreme Court has barred governors from dissolving democratically elected Local Government Councils in the country. In a landmark judgement on Thursday, the apex court said that, doing so, would amount to a breach of the 1999 Constitution. In the suit filed by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Federal Government sought an order preventing the governors from …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, be remanded in Kuje prison in Abuja pending the consideration of his bail application. Justice James Omotosho issued the order on Thursday after the court resumed Mamman’s arraignment on money laundering charge which was earlier stepped down by the judge. The former minister pleaded …

A former acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Anamekwe Nwabuoku, on Wednesday, pleaded with Justice James Omotoso of the Federal High Court in Abuja to give him more time to conclude the refund of the public funds allegedly looted by him and his co-defendant. Nwabuoku and his co-defendant, Felix Nweke, are facing 11 counts of money laundering to the tune of …

Killers of a corps member, Adebayo Mukaila, in Osogbo, capital of Osun State have been sentenced to death. They are a herb seller, Jelli Kareem; commercial cycle rider, Oludayo Oludele, and an electrician, Awodeji Muyiwa. The convicts pleaded not guilty when they were arraigned on 8 October 2020 alongside a vulcaniser, Anifowose Buliaminu, who they sold stolen recharge to after …

The Federal High Court in Abuja has declined the request of businessman Ibrahim Dende, alias IBD Dende, seeking to compel investigative journalist and founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, ‘Fisayo Soyombo, from further writing anything about him. The request came up as part of Dende’s lawsuit against Soyombo and FIJ after he was portrayed as a “smuggler and gunrunner” …

The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Thursday, dismissed the exparte order issued May 10, 2024, by the Rivers State High Court, in Port Harcourt, which barred Martin Amaewhule from parading himself as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The appeal court also dismissed the decision of the state high court which stopped 24 other members of …