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Justice of Supreme Court, Sylvester Ngwuta is Dead

7Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Justice of Supreme Court, Sylvester Ngwuta is Dead

Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Nwali Ngwuta is dead. The Justice died on Sunday morning, SaharaReporters reports. It was gathered that a source informed TheNigeriaLawyer that he passed on in his sleep at his official residence in Abuja. Justice Ngwuta was billed to retire from the Supreme Court on March 30, 2021 upon clocking 70 years mandatory retirement age. He was born in 1951.

Court Rescinds Forfeiture Order on Saraki’s Ikoyi Properties

5Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Corruption, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Court Rescinds Forfeiture Order on Saraki’s Ikoyi Properties

The Federal High Court that sat in Lagos reversed its order of interim forfeiture on the properties of Senator Olubukola Saraki, situated on 17 and 17A MacDonald Road, Okoyi, Lagos State. The judgement followed the submissions by counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Nnaemeka Omewa and counsel for Saraki, Mr Kehinde Ogunwumiju, SAN, who had adopted their respective written addresses for and against the final forfeiture order sought by the EFCC. According to Justice Abdullah Liman, the essence of an interim order of forfeiture was to preserve the property from being squandered by the suspect and the responsibility was on the EFCC to prove to the court that the properties were acquired with unlawful or illegal funds under the corruption laws. Liman held ...

Pastor’s Wife Indicts Husband for Sleeping With Church Members, Files For Divorce

2Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Judiciary, News, Nigeria, Religion

Pastor’s Wife Indicts Husband for Sleeping With Church Members, Files For Divorce

The wife of a pastor of a church, identified as Mrs Jummai Mala has approached a Yola Upper Area Court in Adamawa State to nullify her marriage to her husband, who she allegedly caught sleeping with female church members. Mrs Mala who claims to be the breadwinner of the family alleged that her husband, Pastor Yakubu Ayuba, had fathered three children with female church members whom he slept with in his office. She added that her husband a bed in the church office, which he was using to commit adultery, SaharaReporters reports. She claimed to have personally caught him in the act in the office on several occasions. She cited the sexual escapades as the basis for the court to dissolve the marriage. According to her, the pastor’s randy nature had prompted some of the women to c...

Senate Ratifies N11.35bn Police Trust Fund Budget

24Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Finance, Legislature, News, Nigeria

Senate Ratifies N11.35bn Police Trust Fund Budget

The Senate has approved N11,352,457.70 as the budget for the Nigeria Police Trust Fund in the 2020 fiscal year. The approval followed the consideration of the harmonized report of the Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs. The implementation of the approved NPTP 2020 budget is set to elapse on the 30th of April, 2021. Senator Halliru Jika, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs on Wednesday presented the report of hid committee at the plenary. According to Jika, it was the first budget of the NPTF since the establishment Act came into being in 2019. He said, “Only 0.5 per cent of the total revenue accrued to the federation account and 0.5 per cent of the total VAT were remitted to the NPTF Account. “Other sources of revenue as prescri...

Court Unfreezes #EndSARS Campaigners’ Bank Accounts

11Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Finance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Justice, News, Nigeria

Court Unfreezes #EndSARS Campaigners’ Bank Accounts

Following the freezing of the bank account of some promoters of the #EndSARS protesters, a Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria to unfreeze 20 bank accounts linked to protesters and promoters of #EndSARS with immediate effect. The order was given by Justice Ahmed Mohammed following the sudden withdrawal of a suit filed against them by the CBN through its counsel, Michael Aondoakaa (SAN). The apex bank had asked for 180 days to probe the alleged crime against the defendants. It opted to withdraw its earlier application for an extension of time and the defendants through their lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), subsequently decided to withdraw all processes filed against the suit. During hearing on Wednesday, Aondoakaa told the court that he had discussed w...

EFCC Re-arraigns Kalu on N70bn Fraud Charges

3Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Corruption, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

EFCC Re-arraigns Kalu on N70bn Fraud Charges

A former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu on Tuesday asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to strike out a suit by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission seeking to prosecute him on the same offence of alleged laundering of N7.1 billion. Kalu who is the Senate Chief Whip argued that having been tried once by EFCC, convicted and sentenced in the same charges FHC/ABJ/CR/56/2007, it would amount to double jeopardy for him if subjected to a fresh trial on the same charge. The lawmaker in a motion by his counsel, Prof. Awa Kalu (SAN), before Justice Inyang Ekwo asked the court to rescue him from double jeopardy. He further sought for an order of court stopping the Federal Republic of Nigeria, through the EFCC, its officers, servants, others, agents, privies and any other pers...

Paternity Scandal: How I discovered Three Children With My Ex-Wife Aren’t Mine – Judge

3Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Paternity Scandal: How I discovered Three Children With My Ex-Wife Aren’t Mine – Judge

Anthony Okorodas, a High Court Judge in Delta State has said DNA tests disclosed that three children he had with his first wife are not his. He said the discovery was made after he had sponsored the university education of two of them while the third one was already 17 years old. Okorodas said he found out the paternity of the children after they underwent DNA tests. The Judge while describing the discovery as devasting said he and his current wife had taken responsibility for the education of the three children, two of whom are university undergraduates since their mother left the marriage 11 years ago. He, however, expressed relief that the four children with his current wife were all confirmed to be his biological offspring after DNA tests. Speaking on how he discovered t...

Court Fixes February 19 For Judgment On Saraki’s Ikoyi Houses

28Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Corruption, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Court Fixes February 19 For Judgment On Saraki’s Ikoyi Houses

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos presided by Justice Muhammed Liman has fixed February 19, 2021, for ruling in a suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for the total and final forfeiture of two properties belonging to the former Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki. The decision to fix the date was reached on Tuesday after al parties adopted and argued their final written addresses. The former Senate President, who was also a two-term governor of Kwara State, is being scrutinized by the EFCC which claimed that Saraki withdrew over N12 billion cash from the account of the Kwara government and deposited same into his personal accounts through one of his aides, Abdul Adama while serving as governor between 2003 and 2011. The court had on October 21...

Uganda: Court Orders Soldiers to Vacate Bobi Wine’s Home

25Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Armed Forces, Elections, Human Rights, Judiciary, Justice, News, Uganda

Uganda: Court Orders Soldiers to Vacate Bobi Wine’s Home

A court in Uganda has order security operatives to vacate the home of opposition leader, Bobi Wine, whose house arrest since the recent presidential poll has drawn international pressure, his lawyer said on Monday. Security forces have laid siege on the home of the 38-year-old musician turned politician, preventing him from leaving his home in Kampala since he cast his vote in the January 14 election where he contested against the long-serving incumbent, President Yoweri Museveni. The opposition leaders counsel, George Musisi told Reuters, "The judge ordered that the state and its agencies should immediately vacate his property and his right to personal liberty should immediately be reinstated." The 76-year-old Museveni has been in power for 35 years prior to winning a new term in...

Akeredolu’s Quit Notice to Fulani, Constitutional – Falana

25Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Fulani Herdsmen, Judiciary, News, Nigeria, Security

Akeredolu’s Quit Notice to Fulani, Constitutional – Falana

Femi Falana, SAN, has said that the order given by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State asking herdsmen to vacate forest reserves in the state within seven days is legal. Falana in a statement issued on Sunday said the governor was within his constitutional rights to issue such order. He cited Section 42 (1) (e) and (g) of the Forestry Law of Ondo State which provided that whoever in any forest reserve, except with authority in writing of the prescribed officer, digs, cuts, turns or cultivates the soil or makes a farm or plantation; pastures cattle or permits cattle to trespass or trespasses in any part of forest reserves in which trespass shall be prohibited by an order of the governor. The human rights lawyer stated that the Presidency was hasty in issuing a statement last we...