Chief Justice of Ukraine Supreme Court dismissed, detained for alleged bribe

The 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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Supreme Court affirms Adeleke as elected Osun governor

In its verdict on Tuesday, Supreme Court of Nigeria has declared Ademola Adeleke as the Governor of Osun State. Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared that Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 403,371 votes, to defeat then-incumbent governor Adegboyega Oyetola, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who got 375,027 votes. But […]

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Kukah sends tough message to Buhari, Tinubu, Obidients, Supreme court in Easter

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Nigeria, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has issued a powerful message to Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the world celebrates Easter Sunday. The fiery cleric said, Nigeria’s most pressing need is not infrastructure, but rather, ensuring the safety and well-being of Nigerians. Bishop Kukah’s Easter message also extended to the […]

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Naira policy: Supreme Court fixes March 3 for judgement, refuses to hear contempt application

Nigerian Supreme Court, on Wednesday adjourned the new naira policy suit to March 3, 2023 for judgement as the court did not do much on the contempt application filed by the plaintiffs against AGF Abubakar Malami and CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele. Responding to counsel for Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo on the issue of contempt, Justice […]

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A Reply to a Supreme Court of Illiterate Judicial Bandits, By Farooq A. Kperogi

When I opened my WhatsApp on Saturday, I saw a higher than usual volume of messages and forwards from friends. The first one I opened was a riotously uneducated, sidesplittingly error-ridden, indefensibly malapropistic press statement attacking me for calling out the Supreme Court’s bizarre perversion of justice in recognizing Senate President Ahmed Lawan as Yobe North’s […]

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Lawan and Supreme Court of Shameless Judicial Bandits, By Farooq A. Kperogi

I was awoken on this side of the world by news of the reversal by the Nigerian Supreme Court of Senate President Ahmed Lawan’s primary election loss. I was already mentally prepared for it after the same Supreme Court affirmed Godswill Akpabio’s fraudulent primary win a few days ago. It’s a well-planned judicial choreography. The […]

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Naira swap: Malami files preliminary objection to El-Rufai, Bello and Matawalle’s suit at the Supreme court

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, has filed processes challenging the jurisdiction of the Nigerian Supreme Court to suspend the scheduled deadline of Naira swap and demonetization. Malami, in a preliminary objection he filed on behalf of the Federal Government, applied for an order striking out the suit that […]

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Odinga challenges Kenya’s presidential election result at the Supreme Court

Former Kenyan Prime Minister and long time opposition leader, Raila Odinga, filed a petition to the country’s top court on Monday challenging the result of the August 9 election that handed victory to his rival, William Ruto. In the petition, Odinga asks the court to nullify the vote’s outcome on several grounds, including a mismatch […]

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When stomach infrastructure arrived the Supreme Court, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

On Monday, June 27, General Muhammadu Buhari swore in Olukayode Ariwoola as Nigeria’s third Chief Justice in as many years, the fourth of his seven year-old tenure as president with electoral legitimacy. Ariwoola’s predecessor, Tanko Muhammad, departed from office earlier on the same day, the second successive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to be forcibly “resigned” from […]

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Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022: Nigeria’s National Assembly floors Buhari at the Supreme Court

In a judgment on Friday, a seven-member panel of Nigerian Supreme Court, headed by Justice Musa Dattijo Mohammed, was unanimous in holding that President Muhammadu Buhari, having participated in the making of the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022, by assenting to it, could not turn around seeking to void it. The […]

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Supreme Court And Executive Order 10: Matters Arising, By Reuben Abati

On Friday, the Supreme Court of Nigeria in a split decision voted 6-1 to nullify Executive Order 10 through which the Federal Government of Nigeria had sought in 2019, to give effect to Section 81 (3) and Section 121(3) of the 1999 Constitution, as altered by the 4th Alteration Act No. 4 of 2017, with […]

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Supreme Court sets aside conviction of senior advocate of Nigeria

Nigerian Supreme Court has set aside the conviction of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Joseph Nwobike. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned him before a Lagos State High Court on counts bothering on perversion of justice. The 18 counts bordered on attempting to pervert the course of justice, offering gratification to a […]

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Recovered funds’ remittance: 36 state Attorneys General drag AGF to Supreme Court

Attorneys General of the 36 states of Nigeria have instituted a court action against the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation over the government’s failure to remit recovered funds into the federal account. In the suit filed at the Nigerian Supreme Court registry and marked as SC/CV/395/2021, the 36 states Attorneys General are […]

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Union Bank, CBN, AGF at the Supreme court with oil company over $15b judgment debt

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Union bank are currently entangled in a fierce legal battle with a private company, Petrol Union oil and gas Ltd over a whopping $15B judgment debt at the Supreme Court Supreme Court of Nigeria has, however, agreed to hear a motion filed […]

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Certificate forgery: Obaseki floors APC at the Supreme court

Nigerian Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) challenging the academic qualification of the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. In a judgment delivered on Friday, May 28, the apex court ruled that APC and one of its chieftains, Edobor Williams have failed to prove their case beyond a […]

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Ihedioha goes to Supreme Court for a review of Guber judgment

Except there is any last-minute change, the former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha will on Monday approach Nigerian Supreme Court to review its judgment that sacked him from office. The Supreme court had on January 14, 2020 removed Ihedioha of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor and declared Senator Hope Uzodinma of […]

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Osun, Supreme Court and the Violent Senator, By Reuben Abati

The Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered the final judgment on Friday, July 5, in the matter of the September 22 Gubernatorial election, and the September 27 re-run in Osun State. On September 22, 2018, the collation of results indicated that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke had won the election […]

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Nigeria’s Acting CJN set to appoint 6 new justices to the Supreme Court

Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, has called on his colleagues on the bench of the Supreme Court to nominate suitable candidates for appointment as justices of the apex court. The move, which was sequel to an earlier request by President Muhammadu Buhari, is aimed at meeting the constitutional requirements of 21 […]

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