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A Divisional Police Officer in Abuja, Olabisi Daves, has sought justice for her colleagues killed during the #EndSARS protests that rocked Nigeria in 2020. During the nationwide demonstrations against police brutality and other forms of human rights violations, hoodlums infiltrated the protests, unleashing mayhem on police personnel. Ms Daves who is the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Life Camp Police Station in the FCT, made the appeal on Monday during the launching of Police Station Visitor’s Week by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Conducting top staff of the NHRC and journalists around its detention facility, the DPO asked…

A presiding judge of the Court of Appeal, Owerri Division, Justice Rita Pemu, has escaped kidnap attempt. Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri Branch, Chinedu Agu, said the justice’s driver is still missing. According to him, the incident happened on Monday along Azia-Orsumoghu-Ihiala road. He explained in a statement that the justice escaped amid gunshots by the kidnappers who could not identify her. The statement was titled, “The presiding justice of the Court of Appeal, Owerri Division, Hon. Justice Rita Pemu, escapes from the snares of kidnappers”. Agu said, “Yesterday, Sunday, February 20, 2022, the Presiding Justice of…

Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has dragged the Federal Government to court to seek release from the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, The PUNCH has learnt. Kyari, in his suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, is praying the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the NDLEA to grant him bail on health grounds, pending the hearing and determination of his fundamental right enforcement application. Kyari through his lawyer, Cynthia Ikena, claimed to be suffering from diabetes and hypertension and asked the court to order the NDLEA to release him. But Justice Inyang Ekwo noted that the suit contained some…

The Queen has tested positive for Covid-19, ahead of the expected ending of all coronavirus restrictions in England in the coming days. Buckingham Palace said the monarch, 95, was experiencing “mild cold-like symptoms” but expected to continue carrying out light duties this week. It was confirmed she had been in direct contact with her eldest son and heir, the Prince of Wales, the week he had the virus, while a number of cases have also been reported at her Windsor Castle home. The announcement on Sunday was made only a few weeks after the Queen, who will be 96 in…

The Edo State Government has warned residents who still engage in Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the state to desist, saying perpetrators risk four-year jail term. The Commissioner for Social Development and Gender Issues, Maria Omozele Edeko, gave the warning over the weekend in Benin, during the International Day for Zero Tolerance Against Female Genital Mutilation. She said Section 11 of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law prohibited FGM and prescribed a four-year jail term for perpetrators. The VAPP law, enacted in 2021, seeks to eliminate violence in private and public life, prohibiting all forms of violence against persons…

Indications emerged weekend of  crisis brewing between the federal government and labour union over who has the responsibility to collect stamp duties charge. The Finance Act which was recently signed by President Muhammadu Buhari, had given the responsibility of collecting stamp duties charges to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, instead of the Nigeria Postal Service, NIPOST, that before now performed the function. The alleged stripping of NIPOST of the responsibility to collect stamp duties charges has not gone down well with Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government-Owned Companies, SSASCGOC, an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress, TUC,…

The National Industrial Court in Abuja has described as barbaric and crude deployment of force the manner the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) evicted one of its senior officials, Daniel Makolo, from his official quarters. Justice Oyejoju Oyebiola Oyewumi, in a judgment, ordered the NIS to pay Makolo N10,100,000 as damages for its unlawful and barbaric conduct and the cost of prosecuting the suit. The judgement, delivered on February 16, a copy of which was sighted on Sunday, was on a suit marked: NICN/ABJ/395/2020 filed by Makolo. Sued with the NIS are the Comptroller General of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede (now retired);…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Hon (Dr) Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad has said the Judiciary is open to initiatives aimed at improving and strengthening the capacity of judicial officers in the handling of cases on emerging crime trend in the country. The CJN particularly harped on the need for judicial officers to imbibe technology to combat emerging crimes like cybercrime, cross-jurisdictional infringement of Intellectual property rights, and cases related to cybersecurity and espionage. The CJN made the request at the weekend while playing host to a visiting delegation of US officials led by the Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms. Mary…

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has advised judges to slam “severe costs” on lawyers who delay the course of justice in court. Mr Osinbajo, a professor of law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said judges must take charge of their courts by determining the pace at which cases must progress. The Vice President spoke on Friday evening at the 20th year memorial anniversary symposium in honour of a late legal practitioner, Bankole Aluko (SAN). A statement by his spokesperson, Laolu Akande, quoted the Vice President as speaking on the theme: ‘Administration of Justice: the Ideal Standard, the Nigeria Reality…

The Federal High Court in Abuja is considering changing the venue of the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to address the challenges it poses for court staff and other activities of the court. Business owners, public servants and users of adjoining roads always face a lot of difficulties whenever the proceedings hold at the court complex along Shehu Shagari Road leading to Maitama, Abuja. The Sun reported that the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, John Tsoho, disclosed the plan to change the venue of the trial to…