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A Delta State High Court has ordered the Chief Judge of the State and the President of the Customary Court of Appeal to present their budgets directly to the State House of Assembly for legislative approval without the intervention or interference of the State Governor. The decision was reached in the case of John Aikpokpo Martins and Olukunle Edun V. Governor of Delta State & Ors in SUIT NO: A/164/2022. The case bordered on the interpretation, as well as, the appropriate consequence of sections 120 (4), 121 (2) & (3) and 124 (4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic…

Mondelez International Inc., the US parent company that owns the chocolate brand is moving some of Toblerone’s production to Slovakia — which means the chocolate may not meet Switzerland’s legal definition of “Swissness,” according to Aargauer Zeitung, a Swiss media outlet that first reported the news on Friday. Legislation to protect “Swissness” came into force in 2017. Now, Swiss law dictates that any food item marketing itself as being “made in Switzerland” must source at least 80% of its raw ingredients from the country Milk and dairy products labeled “made in Switzerland” need to source 100% of their raw materials…

A Belarusian court on Friday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of bankrolling protests. The European Union condemned the trial describing it as a “sham”, according to a report by Reuters. The 60-year-old Bialiatski was awarded the Nobel Prize last year October for his work that tremendously promoted human rights and democracy in the European country. He is a critic of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a staunch ally of Russia, who has ruled for nearly 30 years, and violently locking up his opponents or forcing them…

Seven state governments controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have withdrawn a lawsuit filed against the Federal Government at the Supreme Court challenging the declaration of All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President-elect. The states are Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Taraba and Sokoto. In the suit which had the attorneys-general of the seven states as plaintiffs and the Attorney General of the Federation as defendant, the seven states had asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the just-concluded general elections, arguing that the declaration of Tinubu did not follow the Electoral Act. They…

In what appears like a copy-cat replay of an ongoing suit over the move by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ban the use of some denomination of old currencies, six states of the federation; Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Sokoto have dragged the federal government before the Supreme Court over the conduct, collation and announcement of the February 25, 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections. The States want the apex court to declare that the pronouncement of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as winner of the February 25 presidential election and president-elect…

The supreme court has invalidated the naira redesign policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The court made the declaration on Friday while delivering judgment in a suit instituted by three states of the federation. A seven-member panel of the apex court held that the old N200, N500 and N1000 notes remain legal tender until December 31, 2023. They supreme court faulted the entire policy of the CBN, saying the timing and implementation were defective. In October 2022, Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor, announced the plan to redesign the naira to control money supply and aid security agencies in…

A judge in the Ekiti State High Court, Justice Babajide Aladejana, has been reinstated to office 16 years after he was suspended by the National Judicial Council, NJC. The NJC, under the chairmanship of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Alfa Belgore, suspended Aladejana from office in 2006 alongside the state former Chief Judge, Justice Kayode Bamisile, for their alleged roles in the political crisis that led to the impeachment of ex-Governor Ayodele Fayose. Fayose was impeached from office on October 16, 2006 over the alleged N1.4 billion poultry scandal, abuse of office and illegal operation of a…

A 23-year-old man, Ezekiel Olamilekan, on Wednesday, appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly damaging the full front glass of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mulero, Dopemu branch, Lagos State. Olamilekan, with others still at large, is facing a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and malicious damage. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The police prosecutor, Insp. Olusegun Kokoye told the court that the defendant along with others at large, maliciously damaged the full front glass of UBA Bank, Mulero branch. Kokoye said that the value of the said property was yet to be ascertained. He said…

The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Okoita, Ibiono Ibom local government, has sentenced a Prophet, Anwana Peter Essien, to 21 years in prison for allegedly raping his 10 year-old step daughter. Lawbreed Blog Learnt that the 37 year-old prophet was said to have raped his Junior Secondary School one step daughter on August 9, 2019. He reportedly had carnal knowledge of the victim when she stayed in his house at Itiam Street, Uyo, during the holiday. The convict, an indigene of Afaha Ise in Ibiono Ibom, had confessed during his evidence that a demon ‘pushed’ him in the…

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), and president-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, asked the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party not to resort to violence but approach the court to seek redress over their claims that Saturday’s presidential election was marred by rigging. The opposition parties had during the collation of results called for the cancellation of the election and also asked the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, to step down from his position over claims that the election was rigged in favour of the ruling party. But reacting to the claims in a statement on Wednesday,…