Category: Justice

The police officer who allegedly killed Kolade Johnson, a soccer fan, in Lagos on March 31, has been dismissed by the Nigeria Police Force. Disclosing this, Lagos Police Command Spokesman, Bala Elkana, said the judgment was served in an orderly room trial by the Command. He said: “The two police officers, alleged to have been […]

Defence team complains about tribunal chairman’s conduct Proceedings ended abruptly and on a rowdy note on Friday at the resumed hearing in the trial of suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen before the Code of conduct Tribunal (CCT) as his lawyers protested what they viewed as the highhandedness of the tribunal Chairman, […]

An Ikeja High Court on Friday declared Oba Rilwan Akiolu as the bona-fide Oba of Lagos. Justice A. Candide-Johnson made the declaration after dismissing a 16-year suit filed by several Lagos princes seeking to remove the royal father as the Oba. In a two-hour judgment, the judge held that the claimants, including Prince Adedoyin Adebiyi […]

Parties to the dispute over the last governorship election in Ekiti State have besieged the Court of Appeal in Abuja in anticipation of the outcome of the judgment in the case, scheduled for tonight. The Ekiti State Election Tribunal, which later sat in Abuja owing to problem of insecurity in Ekiti, delivered judgment on January […]

INEC gives certificates of return to govs-elect, others explains why Zamfara State was omitted The Court of Appeal on Thursday granted Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February presidential election permission to serve his petition on President Muhammadu Buhari through substituted means. While moving the ex parte motion, counsel […]

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has ordered the proprietress of Cendom International Nursery and Primary School, Olodi-Apapa, Lagos, Mrs Uche Owen, to pay N25 million as damages to a five-year-old pupil of the school, Destiny Kalu who became blind after he was flogged for not paying school fees. Destiny had through his father, […]

PAn Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure, on Wednesday sentenced one Seidu Adeyemi to death by hanging for killing his girlfriend, Khadijat Oluboyo. Khadijat, who was a daughter of a former deputy governor of the state, Lasisi Oluboyo, was killed by the convict after inviting her to his house in July 2018. It was reported […]

Appeal Court President, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, has warned judges nominated to serve in the various election tribunals to desist from act amounting to misconduct. Bulkachuwa threatened not to spare any tribunal member who abuses his/her office and is found wanting in the course of carrying out his/her assigned responsibilities. She spoke in Abuja at the […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday declined the request by the African Action Congress (AAC) for an order of interim injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from among others, announcing winners of the last governorship and State Assembly elections in Rivers State. Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo ordered plaintiffs’ lawyer, Tawo Tawo […]

The Peoples Democratic Party has petitioned the National Judicial Council over what it called the violation of the Constitution and Electoral Act by Justice Ekwo Inyang of the Federal High Court by sitting on a matter that it said ought to have been handled by an election petition tribunal, as created by the provisions of […]