A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to re-open African Independent Television (AIT) and Ray Power FM. The court gave its verdict on Friday, June 7, 2019. Recall on Thursday, NBC shut down…
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JUST IN: Court orders INEC to issue Certificate of Return to Imo Former Governor Okorocha
An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has nullified the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to refuse to present former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, with a certificate of return as senator-elect. The Court ruled…
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Court sacks Imo APC Reps member-elect, orders INEC to issue Certificate of Return to PDP candidate
A Federal High Court in Owerri on Monday sacked the member -elect for Nkwerre/ Nwangele / Njaba / Isu federal constituency of Imo State , Ugonna Ozurigbo . Ozurigbo had , last Wednesday , resigned his position as the…
Deji Adeyanju, convener of Concerned Nigerians, has been released on bail by a Kano State Magistrate Court. Adeyanju has been remanded in a Kano prison after he was rearrested and charged for culpable homicide by the Nigeria Police Force,…
Ayodele Fayose, former governor of Ekiti state, has been granted N50 million bail by the federal high court in Lagos. The ex-governor is on trial for money laundering and abuse of office. More to follow……
Former minister of state for defence, Musiliu Obanikoro is one of the 22 witnesses assembled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to testify against the immediate-past Governor of Ekiti state, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, in court. This comes…
A Federal High Court sitting at Abuja has granted an order for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] to arrest and investigate the National chairman of the All Progressives Congress [APC], Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The presiding judge, Hon.…
Justice Abdulwahab Mohammed of a Grade 1 Area Court, Kubwa, Abuja, yesterday ordered the police to arrest Senator Hope Uzodinma, for allegedly issuing a dud cheque (bounced cheque) in the sum of N200m. Uzodimma, represents Imo West Senatorial District…
High Court in Owerri, the Imo State Capital, has stopped the swearing-in of Mr Calistus Ekenze as the new Deputy Governor of the state. The court issued an interim order stopping the swearing-in ceremony after it was approached by…
The out-going governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Olusola Eleka would be heading to court to reclaim what he described as the “stolen mandate” after the All Progressives Congress, APC,…