Following the order by Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Nigeria Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, to Bukola Saraki, the senate president to appear before the tribunal on Tuesday over alleged false declaration of assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau, the senate president has finally agreed to do so. This was disclosed in a statement issued…
Turkey: Court Jails Editor For Insulting President
A Turkish court has handed down a 21-month suspended jail sentence to an editor of a leading English-language Turkish daily newspaper after convicting him of insulting the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The Ankara penal court said Bulent Kenes, editor-in-chief, Today’s Zaman, was guilty of insulting Erdoğan in a tweet implying his late mother would have…
Ondo Court Jails Fake Doctor
Olubunmi Dosunmi of a Chief Magistrate Court in Akure, Ondo State has sentenced Martins Duclarie, a Camerounian, to two years in prison for illegally operating medical facilities in the state. According to facts before the court, Duclarie had been practising as a fake medical doctor for 30 years in the state. He was said to…
Court Dismisses Suit Seeking Mbu’s Sack
Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed the suit seeking to sack Mbu Joseph Mbu, assistant inspector general of Police over his alleged abuse of power. In his ruling on Tuesday, Buba said no court in Nigeria can declare the office of a police officer of the rank of AIG…
Egypt Court To Retry Mubarak
Ousted Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, has been ordered to stand trial all over again over the killing of protesters in 2011 by an Egyptian appeals court. The former president was cleared in a retrial in November 2014 after he was initially jailed for life over the death of 800 people during the revolution. He was…
Court Adjourns Ruling on Buruji’s Application to May 27
The supremacy battle between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a PDP chieftain in Ogun State seems to have shifted from the political scene to the law court. He is asking the court to prevent his possible extradition to the United States, US. Today Friday, May 8, a federal high court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, heard…
Court Lifts Ban On Obasanjo’s Book
Justice Valentine Ashi of an FCT High Court, Abuja has ordered the lifting of the injunction barring former President Olusegun Obasanjo from publishing his autobiography, My Watch. In the judgment delivered on Tuesday, the judge also ordered the release of seized copies of the book from the custody of the Nigerian Customs Service to Obasanjo.…
Court Stops Cancels Restriction of Movement on Sanitation Days
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State has stopped monthly environmental sanitation exercise held on every last Saturday of the month in Lagos State. Delivering judgement in a suit filed by Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, human rights activist and Lawyer who challenged the legality of the 3 hours restriction, Justice Mohammed Idris held on Monday…
Court To Arraign 10 Suspects Over Ejigbo Torture
The 10 people who allegedly tortured and sodomised three women purportedly for stealing pepper at Oba Morufu International Market, Ejigbo, Lagos in February 2013 will now be arraigned before an Ikeja High Court on March 3, 2015. The arraignment of the suspects before justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye on Monday was adjourned to the new date because…
APC Threatens Court Action Against DSS
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said it will sue the Department of State Service, DSS, for Saturday’s invasion of its Lagos State secretariat. Lai Mohammed, National Publicity Secretary of the APC, said this in an interview on Sunday. “We will definitely go to court to seek redress and enforce our fundamental rights. Two days…
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