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Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi SAN, has filed a suit with number SC/CV/343/2024, on behalf of the Federal Government, at the Nigerian supreme Court, against the 36 state governors in the country while seeking full autonomy for local governments. The AGF, in the suit, urged the apex court to issue […]
Continue ReadingWhen Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) retires from the Bench in 2024, upon the attainment of the statutory, mandatory retirement age of 70 years, he would be able to count among his legacies, as CJN, the singular fact that it was under his watch that the Supreme Court achieved the full complement […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Rivers State, Sim Fubara, has on Thursday, celebrated the affirmation of his election by the Nigerian Supreme Court, declaring that, “one elephant is out of the road.” Fubara also said his triumph at the Supreme Court has laid to rest the legal battles that added to the distractions his administration grappled with in […]
Continue ReadingSupreme Court of Nigeria has set aside the lower courts’ decisions sacking the Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf. The tribunal had set aside Abba Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) victory after declaring 165,663 of his votes invalid. The tribunal held that the deducted votes were from ballot papers that were neither stamped […]
Continue ReadingIn the last one and a half decades, Rabiu Kwankwaso has been the most charismatic politician out of Kano after the passing of Abubakar Rimi. Kwankwaso is not just charismatic; he is consequential, with a cult-like following that responds twice, even when he calls once. He is facing yet another defining moment in his political career. […]
Continue ReadingA Justice of the Nigerian Court of Appeal has suddenly died, as processes for his elevation to the Supreme Court of Nigeria commenced. Justice Joseph Shagbaor Ikyegh passed away on Wednesday evening in his home town of Makurdi. He was 65. Ikyegh was the head of the Port Harcourt division until he suddenly slumped before […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court has dismissed a plea by Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State seeking a certificate of return as the state’s lawful governor. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Ihedioha as the winner of Imo State governorship election in 2019 and ruled the state for about seven months until […]
Continue ReadingAs Nigerians wait on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to make final pick for the Supreme Court bench, fresh claims have emerged to explain the lopsidedness in the 22-person list cobbled by the Federal Judicial Service Commission, from which the council, would recommend 11 justices of the Court of Appeal, for elevation. The Chief Justice […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, has on Wednesday filed 10 grounds of appeal at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, challenging his last week’s removal by the Nigerian Court of Appeal. The notice of appeal filed by the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Yusuf joined the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the APC and […]
Continue ReadingRetiring justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Justice Musa Dattijo, on Friday, lamented that the power vested in the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) is too absolute and can easily breed corruption. He alleged that the refusal to fill the vacant slot of the Southeast and Northcentral regions on the apex court bench was […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court has fixed Thursday for the judgment in the appeals filed by the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi against President Bola Tinubu. Atiku and Obi are praying the Supreme court to set aside the judgment by the presidential election petition tribunal […]
Continue Reading“We must do what has never been done before. What is the argument on the other side? Only this, that no case has been found in which it has been done before. That argument does not appeal to me in the least. If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has filed new documents against President Bola Tinubu before the Supreme Court in which he accused the President of forgery and lying under oath, and should therefore be disqualified and removed from office. Evidence filed by the former vice president, according […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court has affirmed Athan Achonu as the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the November 11, 2023 election in Imo State, Nigeria. Basil Maduka, a contestant in the primaries had objected to Achonu’s candidature at both the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal. But the justices of the Supreme Court on Thursday […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has urged the Supreme Court to declare that the Presidential Election Petition Court’s five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani erred in law when it dismissed his evidence allegedly showing he won the February 25 polls with about 8.7 million votes. INEC had declared on March 1 […]
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court of Nigeria had, in a split decision of four-to-one, set aside the conviction and sentencing to seven years’ imprisonment of Senator Peter Nwaoboshi for fraud and money laundering. In a lead judgment by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the apex court held that the EFCC unjustly and maliciously prosecuted Nwaobishi and the two companies […]
Continue ReadingNigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has accused the president of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of submitting fake Chicago State University Certificate to Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Hundeyin made his accusation by sharing the photos of the alleged fake certificate on his Twitter handle. This is coming, after the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) […]
Continue ReadingSupreme Court of Nigeria intends to appoint eight new justices to bring the number of the juries to the required twenty one, and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has asked its members to indicate interest. Supreme Court currently has 13 justices with eight vacant slots, and the long tradition (except on few occasions in the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court Friday dismissed the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the disqualification of the ticket that produced the president-elect, Bola Tinubu and the vice-president-elect, Kashim Shettima in the 2023 presidential election. In an appeal marked SC/CV/501/2023, the opposition party sought Tinubu’s disqualification on grounds of the double nomination of his vice […]
Continue ReadingThe head of Ukraine’s Supreme Court was dismissed from his post on Tuesday after being detained in a bribery investigation which anti-corruption authorities cast as their biggest-ever case. Kyiv has redoubled efforts to clamp down on corruption despite Russia’s invasion, and doing so is vital to meet the conditions for joining the European Union. Oleksandr Omelchenko, a […]
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