Category: Judiciary

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Agunloye Mustn’t Die Like Bola Ige, Soyinka Warns, As Ex-Minister Remanded In Kuje 

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Olasunmibo Aboluwade, Abuja  Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has warned relevant government agencies to thread with caution and ensure the safety of a former minister of power and steel, Dr. Olu Agunloye, who has been remanded at the Kuje Correctional Service. Agunloye is currently awaiting trial on corruption charges.  Soyinka likened the travail of Agunloye to the tragic 2001 assassination of former Minister of Justice, Bola Ige.  Agunloye had pleaded not guilty to the charges when he was presented before the Federal High Court. The presiding judge ordered his remand…

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Insufficient Legislative Drafters Affecting Lawmaking In Nigeria – NILDS DG

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Olasunmibo Aboluwade, Abuja  The Director General of the National Institute For Legislative And Democratic Studies, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, said on Thursday that the inadequate number of legislative drafters in National and state assemblies is affecting lawmaking in Nigeria  Sulaiman, who is a former Minister of National Planning stated this during the inauguration of the third NILDS Internship Programme on Legislative Drafting, in Abuja. He said NILDS introduced the internship programme on Legislative Drafting when it discovered the need to strengthen the nation’s parliaments with experts that would make the lawmakers’…

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Appeal Court Sacks Senate Minority Leader, Orders Rerun

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Olasunmibo Aboluwade, Abuja  The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has nullified the victory of the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Simon Mwadkwon, who is representing Plateau North- Senatorial District in the National Assembly. In a unanimous judgement, the three-member panel led by Justice Daudu Williams held that the PDP did not validly nominate Mwadkwon. The panel held that it is their view that court orders were not fully complied with by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as 12 Local Government Areas (LGAs) didn’t participate in the congress. The court also ordered a…

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You Must Face Prosecution Over Your Open Confession in Senate, Abuja Court Tells Bulkachuwa

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Olasunmibo Aboluwade, Abuja Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed Senator Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa’s claims that Legislative Immunity covered his statement on the floor of the Senate. Bulkachuwa had during the 9th Senate valedictory service explained how  he usually influenced his wife’s judgments in favour of his colleagues in the red chamber. His wife, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa was a former justice of the Appeal Court. Justice Ekwo told Senator Bulkachuwa that his statement on the floor of the Senate on that day amounted …

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Accept Tribunal Verdict, Cleric Urges LP Abia North Senatorial Candidate 

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Olasunmibo Aboluwade, Abuja A cleric, Rev Kalu Ukpai Ota has urged the Abia North Senatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Nnamdi Iro Oji (Opotoyom), to accept the judgement of the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal upholding the election of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. In a chat with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, Ota cautioned the Labour Party candidate to desist from blackmailing the judiciary.  He alleged that Iro Oji was yet to recover from the shock defeat he experienced during the February 25 National Assembly election. According to the…

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Moneybags Trying To Compromise Appeal Court Justices, N’Delta Group Alleges

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Olasunmibo Aboluwade, Abuja A Niger Delta interest group, the Urhobo New Frontiers (UNF), in Delta State, has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by some desperate politicians, allegedly shopping for Justices of the Court of Appeal in Abuja to do their bidding as the electoral petitions moves to the Appealate Court.  UNF has therefore called on Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, President of Court of Appeal, Hon Justice Monica Bolna’an Dongban-Mensem, National Judicial Council to as a matter of urgency save Nigeria democracy from the hands…

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Tribunal Affirms Orji Kalu’s Victory, Throws Out PDP, LP’s Petitions 

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Emeka Nnaji, Umuahia The National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State Capital, has upheld the victory of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu representing Abia-North Senatorial District in the February 25, 2023 National Assembly election. A three man panel led by Justice Samson Paul -Gang in its unanimous ruling on Tuesday dismissed the petition of People’s Democratic Party’s Mao Ohuabunwa and Labour Party’s Nnamdi Iro Orji for lacking merit. The court while upholding the victory of Kalu of the All Progressives Congress, APC said that the election of…

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