Inspector General of Police sentenced to six months imprisonment …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> The Acting Inspector-General of Police in Kenya, Gilbert Masengeli has been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt by the country’s High Court. In his ruling on Friday, Justice Lawrence Mugambi gave Masengeli seven days to surrender himself to the Commissioner-General … Read more
Edo poll: Court summons Okpebholo over alleged age falsification …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> A Magistrates’ Court in Abuja has summoned Sen. Monday Okpebholo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for the 2024 Edo elections, to appear before it over alleged age falsification. He is charged with forgery and perjury. The suit , filed by … Read more
Edo poll: Appeal Court dismisses suit seeking Ighodalo’s disqualification …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday dismissed an appeal seeking to disqualify Asue Ighodalo as governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo. A three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Justice Hamma Barka, dismissed the appeal … Read more
10 #EndBadGovernance Protesters remanded In Kuje, Suleja Prisons …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded 10 #EndBadGovernance protesters in prison. The judge, on Monday, remanded nine male protesters in the Kuje prison while a female protester was remanded in Suleja. The court also fixed September 11 … Read more
Trial of #EndBadGovernance protesters begin in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Borno today …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> Deputy inspector-General of Police, Intelligence, Dasuki Galadanchi, has revealed that the rial of #EndBadGovernance protesters will begin in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and Borno today. The DIG disclosed this at the just-ended Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). … Read more
Court strikes out suit against #EndBadGovernance protesters …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> A Federal High Court Sitting in Abuja has dismissed a case instituted against the #EndBadGovernance protesters. This dismissal was pronounced by the court in a ruling delivered on Thursday. Advertisement Other defendants in the case are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the … Read more
BREAKING: Appeal Court upholds Asue Ighodalo’s candidacy …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has overturned the judgement of a Federal High Court which ordered the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to allow the participation of 381 ad-hoc delegates in its February 22 primary election in Edo State. The primary election produced … Read more
Court freezes 32 bank accounts linked to #EndBadGovernance Protest …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> A Federal High Court in Abuja has frozen the bank accounts of 32 individuals and companies’ linked to the 10-day #EndBadGovernance Protest organised across the country pending investigation and prosecution of the case. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on the ex-parte … Read more
After four years in prison, six #EndSARS protesters regain freedom …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in the Ikeja area of Lagos has convicted and discharged six men who were standing trial for breaching public peace during the 2020 #EndSARS protest. The defendants, Daniel Joyinbo (31), Adigun Sodiq (28), Kehinde Shola (32), … Read more
Reveal details of your running costs or meet us in court, SERAP tells …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas to disclose the “exact amount of monthly running costs” allotted to members of the National … Read more