Judiciary

Ebonyi: INEC To Take Decision On Gov Umahi’s Fate Next Week
Elections, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Ebonyi: INEC To Take Decision On Gov Umahi’s Fate Next Week

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would meet next week to deliberate on the Federal High Court’s sack of Ebonyi State Governor, Engr. Dave Umahi, and come up with an appropriate position on the matter. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Barr. Festus Okoye disclosed this in a late Thursday statement. He said the commission met on Thursday and deliberated on a wide range of issues, including the rising tide of litigations that do not directly involve the Commission, but in which the principal parties joined it. According to him, the Commission was briefed by its Litigation and Prosecution Department, including an update on litigations, showing that in the last three months, the Commission ha...
Man Allegedly Cheats Konga For Eight Years, Steals Goods Worth N22m
Finance, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Man Allegedly Cheats Konga For Eight Years, Steals Goods Worth N22m

A 39-year-old man, Chijioke Okoro, has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Ikeja, Lagos State, for allegedly stealing N22,046,695 worth of goods from an online store, Konga. Reports say that Okoro tricked the online company between October 2013 and August 2021 in Akilo, in the Ogba area of the state. He was arraigned on two counts bordering on stealing and cheating by tricks. The charges read, “That you, Chijioke Okoro, from October 2013 to August 20, 2021, at No 3b, Cocoa Road, Akilo area of Ogba, Lagos, in the Ikeja Magisterial District, did unlawfully steal goods worth N22,046,695, property of Konga Online Shopping Limited. Read Also: Abba Kyari’s Wife Slumps In Court, NDLEA Remands Husband, Six Others “That you, Chijioke Okoro, on the sa...
Court Dismisses Nnamdi Kanu’s Request For DSS DG Oral Evidence On Health Status
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Court Dismisses Nnamdi Kanu’s Request For DSS DG Oral Evidence On Health Status

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a motion filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for the Director-General of the Department of States Services (DSS) to give oral evidence on his state of health. Nnamdi Kanu Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in ruling, held that fundamental rights cases are special cases “sui generis” which mode of commencement are affidavit evidence as prescribed under Order 2, Rule 2 of the Fundamental Human Right Enforcement Procedure Rules, 2009. Justice Taiwo said that though there were various modes of commencement of action, including fundamental right cases, he said Kanu (applicant) chose to commence his “under the Fundamental Right Enforcement Procedure Rules that stipulates affidavit evidence.” He rul...
Abba Kyari’s Wife Slumps In Court, NDLEA Remands Husband, Six Others
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Abba Kyari’s Wife Slumps In Court, NDLEA Remands Husband, Six Others

A middle woman, adorning a black hijab and identified as the wife of the embattled DCP Abba Kyari, yesterday, collapsed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, seeing the super cop and six others taken into custody by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after Justice Emeka Nwite fixed March 28 for determination of the bail application filed by their counsel. The judge decided on the date after taking arguments from both the prosecution and defence lawyers in requests urging the defendants’ release. Counsel to first and second defendants had prayed the court to grant their clients bail on fundamental rights grounds to prepare for defence. But the NDLEA legal representative, Joseph N. Sunday, opposed the motion, arguing that Kyari, who hitherto headed the P...
Hushpuppi: AGF’s Office Exonerates Abba Kyari Of Money Laundering Allegation 
Corruption, Crime, Judiciary, Justice, Law Enforcement, Nigeria, Uncategorized

Hushpuppi: AGF’s Office Exonerates Abba Kyari Of Money Laundering Allegation 

A new twist into the $1.1million hushpuppi internet scam involving suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari and fraudster, Ramon Abass aka Hushpuppi and other accomplices emerged at the weekend with the office of the Attorney General issuing new legal advice exonerating Kyari from money laundering allegations. The office of the AGF which in its first legal advice admitted that a prima- facie case of money laundering of 33 payments (proceeds of crime) was established by the DIG Joseph Egbunike led Special Investigation Panel against Kyari has now said, there are no links with Kyari following further investigations. Recall that Kyari and other defendants are currently in court on drugs and money laundering allegations at the Federal High Court A...
PDP Ready To Approach Supreme Court To Reclaim Mandate – Wike Warns Umahi
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PDP Ready To Approach Supreme Court To Reclaim Mandate – Wike Warns Umahi

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Saturday, said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is ready to reclaim its mandate from Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State. Wike said the PDP was ready to approach the Supreme Court to reclaim its mandate from Umahi. He spoke during the inauguration of the Eastern Bypass Road in Port Harcourt, the state capital. According to Wike, “If our party has done this earlier when people were leaving in the National Assembly, we won’t have had the problem we are having today. “That is one of the problems of party leadership. People cannot come out and take the bull by the horns. So, Governor Umahi, be rest assured that PDP will continue this matter down to Supreme Court. We will continue with the matter. “You carry the votes of another par...
Defection Sack: Court Orders Umahi, Deputy To Remain In Office
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Defection Sack: Court Orders Umahi, Deputy To Remain In Office

Ebonyi Governor David Umahi and his Deputy, Kelechi Igwe, have secured an order from the High Court of Ebonyi State not to vacate their offices in the interim This followed an ex-parte motion by counsel to the duo, Roy Umahi brought pursuant to rule 3(3) of the High Court rules of Ebonyi State in suit no HAB/13/22. The Court on February 28, 2022 ruled that Governor Umahi and his Deputy did not flout any law by defecting to the All Progressive Congress(APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). The Court presided by Justice Henry Njoku dismissed the matter for lacking in merit and fined the plaintiff, Sunny Ogbuoji, who was the APC candidate and runner up in the 2019 governorship election.. However, an Abuja Federal High Court on 8th March ruling on a similar matter filed by...
IPOB Faults Incessant Amendment Of Charges Against Kanu
Biafra, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

IPOB Faults Incessant Amendment Of Charges Against Kanu

The Indigenous People of Biafra has accused the Federal Government of deliberate attempts to introduce empty charges in order to continuously keep Nnamdi Kanu in detention. The group also said the federal government had constantly been amending its charges so as to prolong the issue of Kanu’s unconditional release from the Department of State Services’ custody. In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Wednesday, IPOB said the Federal Government had carried out six successive amendments to the charges filed against Kanu in its desperation to manufacture offences that might provide suitable grounds to proffer charges where no offence known to the law existed. Nnamdi Kanu It pointed out that the manner in which Kanu was brought into the country was ...
PDP Submits Umahi’s Replacement To INEC, Sacked Governor Sits Tight
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PDP Submits Umahi’s Replacement To INEC, Sacked Governor Sits Tight

Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday declared as illegal,  the defection of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and his deputy, Dr  Kelechi Igwe, from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. The court made the order in a judgment on a suit filed by the PDP seeking the removal of Umahi and Igwe from office. While Umahi, at a press conference in Abakaliki berated the judge and insisted that he remained the state governor, the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, said the party had forwarded Umahi and Igwe’s replacements to the Independent National Electoral Commission. Earlier on Tuesday, the FHC Abuja held that the crux of the suit was the defection of the third defendants (governor) and the fourth defendants (deputy ...
Igboho Can’t Leave Benin Republic Despite Release – Lawyer
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Igboho Can’t Leave Benin Republic Despite Release – Lawyer

The Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has described the release of Chief Sunday Igboho from detention in Benin Republic as a personal liberty and a victory for those who believe in personal liberty and the right of the people to self-determination. The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Jare Ajayi, said this when contacted for his reaction to the development on Monday. Afenifere logo He said, “Afenifere and indeed Yoruba people as a whole are very happy that the Yoruba Nation agitator has been released. “Sunday Adeyemo Igboho’s release is not just for him and the Yoruba people. It is a victory indicator for all those who believe in personal liberty and the right of a given people to self-determination. “Afenifere commends Prof Banji Akintoye, Prof ...