Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Justice John Tsoho, has charged judicial officers against actions that would put the court in bad light. Speaking during the opening ceremony of the annual Federal High Court Judges’ conference in Abuja, Justice
Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Justice John Tsoho has said that the court determined at least 8000 cases in the 2019/2020 legal year that has just ended. The Chief Judge who was speaking during the commencement of the court’s new legal year (2020/2021), in Abuja said, in […]
…Says, judiciary will remain firm in discharging its duties Doosuur iwambe, Abuja The Chief Judge (CJ) of the Federal High Court, Hon. Justice John Tsoho has marked his one year in office as the Chief Judge of the Federal High court of Nigeria. This is just as he reaffirmed the commitment of the judiciary to […]
Staff of the Federal High Court across the country have indicated their intention to embark on a two-week strike on September 28, 2020. READ ALSO: Obaseki pays thank you visit to Buhari In a notice, circulated in and around the Federal High Court headquarters building in Abuja, the court staff, under the aegis of the Judiciary […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday adjourned the trial of a surgeon, Dr. Anuoluwapo Adepoju, charged with evasion from investigation into an alleged failed plastic surgery. The defendant is charged alongside her clinic, MedContour Services Limited on five counts bordering on refusal to honour an invitation for investigation and failure to produce investigation […]
Embattled former Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday that 98 per cent of $9.8billion found in his house in Kaduna by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were gifts from friends and associates. He said that the money 9.7 million […]
Justice Hakeem Oshodi of an Ikeja High Court on Friday ordered the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender (OPD) to take over the defence of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans due to his inability to afford legal fees. At Friday’s proceedings, the Lagos State Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo […]
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, turned down a request of the Rivers Government to temporarily halt the deduction of funds from the federation account for the funding of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF). Earlier, Joseph Daudu, SAN, who represented the state’s government, had urged Justice Mohammed to issue […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed July 10 to hear a suit challenging the legality of the conviction of popular actress, Funke Akindele, her husband, Abdu-rasheed Bello and 236 others. Their lawyer, Mr. Mr Olukoya Ogungbeje, is seeking a declaration that the law upon which Akindele and others were convicted was inconsistent with […]
The National Conscience Party (NCP) has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the Federal High Court, Lagos, for excluding it and its standard bearer, Pastor Peters Omoragbon, from the list of candidates in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo state. NCP’s standard bearer and the party’s National Chairman Mallam Tanko Yunusa, averred
...Orders him to enter defence on 4 other counts The Federal High Court on Thursday discharged Senator Abba Moro, the former Minister of Interior, from seven out of the 11-count criminal charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) following Nigerian Immigration recruitment exercise that resulted in the deaths of 21 […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has struck out the suit filed by Mr. Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama stopping Governor Godwin Obaseki from participating in today’s PDP governorship primary in Edo State. A counsel to the plaintiff, D. C. Denwigwe (SAN), had in an oral application during resumption of the hearing on Wednesday, […]
…Say President’s appointments since 2015 in breach of 1999 Constitution, Federal Character principle …Demand reversal of lopsided appointments, as Court fixes July 10 for hearing Elder statesmen and leaders of socio-cultural groups in Southern Nigeria, on Monday, dragged President Muhammadu Buhari before the Federal High Court Abuja, alleging that the
…As pro – Oshiomhole NWC inaugurates Edo guber primary, appeal c’ttees An FCT High Court Maitama on Thursday extended an order given earlier permitting Chief Victor Giadom to act as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for 14 days. This came on the heels of the Appeal Court’s affirmation of suspension of […]
…As FG declares BUA’s mining leases non-existent The Management of Dangote Group, on Monday, denied the claim by the BUA Group to the mining sites in Obu, Okpella, Edo State, refuting the ownership claim, as the latter said it relied on the Federal High Court recent judgment in Benin. Dangote advised the regulatory agencies to […]
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday fixed June 30 to deliver judgment in the suit filed by Dino Melaye challenging the passage of the Infectious Diseases Bill Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu fixed the date after taking arguments from parties in the case. The bill, which is sponsored by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, […]
An Igbosere High Court in Lagos state on Tuesday discharged and acquitted a man, Jelili Dimeji, of a four-count armed robbery charge brought against him five years ago. The Lagos state government had accused Dimeji of robbing some valuables from an apartment in Ikotun in 2015. In her judgment during virtual proceedings, Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye […]
…affirms INEC’s power To deregister parties The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday again dashed the hope of the 74 Political parties deregistered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to regain their registration with the decision of the court declaring that INEC acted within the ambit of the law in deregistration of Political […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has affirmed the Power of the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister political parties which failed to comply with the provisions of the law particularly Section 225 A of the 1999 Constitution as amended. Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo in a landmark judgment delivered in the Suit filed by the […]
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out an eight count charges against former Senator Dino Melaye for resisting arrest. Justice Yusuf Halilu struck out the eight counts on the grounds of lack of diligent prosecution by the office of the Attorney General of the Federation. The […]