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The Federal High Court has announced the commencement of its Easter vacation. According to a statement issued on Sunday by the court’s Chief Information Officer, Catherine Christopher, the vacation will begin from April 8 till April 25. Quoting the Chief Judge, John Tsoho, Ms Christopher said the break was based on “the provisions of Order 46, Rule 4 (b) of the Federal High Court ( Civil Procedures) Rules, 2019 (as amended).” Court activities would resume on April 26, the statement stated. Vacation judges However, the court has arranged for vacation judges who will attend to emergency lawsuits, especially cases bordering…

The Honourable President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, His Lordship, Hon. Justice B. B. Kanyip, Ph.D, FNIALS has declared Monday, 11th April 2022 to Friday, 22nd April 2022 as Easter vacation holiday. Hon. President made the declaration pursuant to Order 58 Rule 4 (1) (b) of the NICN Civil Procedure Rules 2017 and other enabling powers. Justice Kanyip further stated that there will be no normal Court sitting during the period of the vacation and the normal Court sitting shall resume on Monday, 25th April 2022.

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, on Sunday, accused the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, of manipulating the Federal High Court into issuing conflicting decisions on section 84(12) of the new Electoral Act 2022. Mr Falana said Mr Malami pretended not to be aware of the restraining order of the Federal High Court in Abuja barring him and others from tampering with the legal provision but vowed to implement that of the Umuahia division of the court which ordered the deletion of the clause from the law. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, in a statement…

The Zuba High Court sitting at the Gwagwalada High Court Division, Abuja, has sentenced four men to death by hanging for armed robbery. The convicts-Tochukwu Uwalaka, Gideon Igbabo, Miracle Amaechi, and Jamil Abdulsalam, had lured the 10-year-old daughter of their victim at gunpoint to get access into his house at Kuje District in Abuja, on August 23, 2016. The suspects, thereafter, attacked the victim and his family with dangerous weapons, and carted away valuables which included a 2006 Xterra Jeep, a 2008 Toyota Camry, two HP laptops, phones, a digital camera, cash sum of N200,000, jewellery and other valuables. The…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Beatrice Jedy-Agba as solicitor-general of the federation. Her appointment was contained in a statement issued on Friday by the office of the head of civil service of the federation. Prior to Beatrice’s appointment, Mohammed Umar, director of public prosecution, was acting solicitor-general following the retirement of Dayo Akpata in July 2021. Beatrice, a former executive secretary of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP), was also appointed as a permanent secretary alongside three other persons. The development comes weeks after 37 out of 74…

You left this ephemeral world exactly six years ago. Since then we have been missing your humorous stories about your journeys to Ngaundare, Doala, Garoua, Maroua, Tibati, all in Cameroun Republic, as well as Mambila, Gembu, Mubi, Ngurore, Gashaka, Ganye and Jada, where you married your first wife. Your stories about how your life was shaped by your uncle, the late Alhaji Mamman Dafami in Dikwa, Gulumba, Bama, and how you garnered trading experience from your brother-in-law, the late Alhaji Mallam Umara Kokari at the Maiduguri Central Market in the 1960s still resonate in our minds. You lived a loving…

Justice A.R Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N116 million alleged to be proceeds of crimes linked to the non- execution of constituency projects awarded to Hamza Barau and Hamshakin Ventures Ltd, funded by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN on behalf of six former federal lawmakers. Investigation by the EFCC showed that, Hamza Barau and Hamshakin Ventures Ltd actually collected a Certificate of Job Completion issued by SWEDAN and shared the project funds with the legislators, through whom the constituency projects were allotted.…

A Lagos Special Offences Mobile Court sitting at Oshodi, has convicted a socialite Ms. Ogbulu Pearl for distributing Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, as souvenir at a party. The defendant was earlier arraigned on March 14, for the offence of distributing PMS as souvenir during her installation party on March 5. The offences violates section 251(1), 168 (1), 244 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 and Section 195 (2)(b) of the Environmental Management Protection Law of Lagos State 2017. Delivering judgement in the matter after the defendant changed her plea from ‘not guilty ‘ to guilty, Chief Magistrate Kehinde…

Six Nigerians have been sanctioned by the United States for allegedly supporting Nigeria-based terrorist group, Boko Haram The US, in a statement, listed the individuals as Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also included Musa, Adamu, Yusuf, Isa, Alhassan and Muhammad to the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons. Part of the statement read, “Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated a network of six individuals connected to…

The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja upheld the de-registration of 22 political parties carried out by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC. The parties were among the 74 scrapped in 2020 by INEC following their dismal performances in the previous elections. Delivering judgment in an appeal instituted by INEC against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ejembi Eko voided and set aside a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja division which had nullified the de-registration. Justice Eko held that the Court Appeal on its own (suo motu) raised the issue of lack of fair…