Category: Justice

The panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, headed by Justice Nonyerem Okoronkwo on Monday reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the Oyo State government against the judgment delivered by Justice Olajumoke Aiki of the Oyo State Hgh Court on the review of the Olubadan chieftaincy declaration elevating some recognised Ibadan chieftains […]

The Presiding justice of the presidential election petition tribunal Zainab Bulkachuwa withdrew from the panel yesterday. The panel had dismissed the application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the general elections, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, against Bulkachuwa. The PDP and Atiku had last week filed an application against Bulkachuwa, asking […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Osun State gubernatorial election of last September, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has sued the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, over his arrest and detention in Abuja on May 6, 2019. Adeleke had approached the Osun State High Court, Ikirun, seeking his rights to personal liberty and freedom […]

The Supreme Court will on Wednesday deliver judgment in the appeal filed by former Ekiti State Governor Segun Oni challenging the eligibility of Governor Kayode Fayemi to stand as a candidate in the July 14, 2018, governorship poll. Oni in the suit claimed that Fayemi was not eligible to run as the All Progressives Congress […]

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has told the election petition tribunal that the result from the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) shows he defeated President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential election. In his submission to the presidential election tribunal, he gave the […]

An Abuja High Court 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 adjourned date. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf gave the order in a ruling on Tuesday at the resumed hearing in the trial […]

The All Progressive Congress (APC) and the winner of the February 23, 2019 Presidential Election, has filed a motion at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja that the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the poll, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not a Nigerian and therefore unqualified to have stood for the election. The […]

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Enugu on Monday struck out the petition filed by Action Peoples Party (APP) challenging the victory of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as the winner of the March 9 governorship election in the state. The tribunal, chaired by Justice I. M. Sambo, struck out the petition after entertaining a motion […]

Pete Ouko, a Kenyan and a leading campaigner against capital punishment, decries its continued application in many jurisdictions. How did you find yourself in prison and on death row? In 1998 my wife was found murdered in front of a police station. I got word and I went to the police station to be told what […]

By Abdulwaheed Odusile Advocates of the abolition of the death penalty around the world gathered in Brussels, Belgium for the 7th World Congress Against The Death Penalty. ABDULWAHEED ODUSILE reports that the abolitionists renewed the call on countries, such as Nigeria, to end the practice. Given the resurgence in violent crimes around the world, especially […]