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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has filed a petition against Justice Emmanuel Obile of the Port Harcourt Division of the Federal High Court for disqualifying Governor Obaseki from participating in Edo PDP primary scheduled to take place on June 25. The petition, which was dated June 23, was addressed to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad and signed ...

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma has sworn  in the first female Chief Judge of the state. Her name is Justice Ijeoma Agugua Speaking at the ceremony in Owerri, Uzodinma assured that judiciary under his time will be different. He vowed to make the Imo State judiciary one of the best in the country and also make it autonomous. “Judiciary is ...

Ibrahim Muhammad, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN) on Monday suspended sitting in the case of seven governors after a judge on the panel developed illness. The supreme court adjourn till Tuesday to hear the governorship appeals on Sokoto, Imo, Benue, Bauchi, Plateau, Kano and Adamawa. The court had fixed Monday for the determination of the seven outstanding governorship appeals. Earlier, ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and some other groups have hailed the 12-year prison sentence handed down to ex-Gov. Orji Kalu of Abia, by a Federal High Court in Lagos. Kalu is currently a Senator. Justice Mohammed Idris convicted Kalu on 39 counts of N7.2 billion fraud and money laundering preferred against him by the Economic and Financial ...

Abdulrasheed Maina, Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, during proceeding, said to Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, that his remark on him in the last proceeding was unfair to him. Maina, who spoke through his counsel, Joe Gadzama, SAN, at the commencement of trial on the case against him filed by the Economic and ...

The Economic and Financial Crmes Commission on Tuesday rearraigned embattled former Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose in a Federal High Court in Lagos over N6.9billion Money laundering and fraud. Details soon…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has kicked against court orders stopping it from probing Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha. The EFCC, had in a letter to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, accused Justice Taiwo Taiwo, who made the orders, of bias. In his protest, the EFCC’s Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, ...