The Court of Appeal in Abuja has fixed tomorrow, Thursday, February 12 to hear multiple suits challenging the legality of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention held on November 15 and 16, 2025, in Ibadan, Oyo State. A three-member panel of the appellate court, chaired by Justice Mohammed Danjuma, will consider eight separate a...
•Senator Natasha The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division today, affirmed the suspension of the Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan by the Senate . The appellate court held that the Senate has power to discipline any erring member and that, in the instant case, Natasha’s fundamental right was never breached as she alleged. Deliverin...
•Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, today, affirmed the decision of the Senate to suspend Senator Natasha Akpoti, holding that the red chamber acted within its powers. In a unanimous judgment delivered by a three-member panel in Natasha’s appeal against the Clerk of the National Assembly and three others...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja today ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to forthwith release the sum of N2.5 billion standing to the credit of 110 former staff members of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, who were unlawfully sacked in 1996. The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel […]
•The 5 convicted armed robbers (seated) ‎The Court of Appeal in Ilorin, Kwara State, has upheld the death sentences imposed on five men convicted over the 2018 Offa bank robbery, dismissing their appeals as lacking merit. ‎‎The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) in the state, Mohammed Akande, who witnessed the proceedings virtually, said tha...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Kano has upheld the death sentence imposed on Abdulmalik Tanko, the killer of young Hanifa Abubakar. Justice A. R. Muhammad dismissed Tanko’s appeal and affirmed the ruling of the Kano State High Court, which had sentenced him to death by hanging, reports Daily Trust. The appellate court held that […]
•Natasha and Akpabio The jaundiced reportage by OPR News purporting to analyse proceedings at the Court of Appeal in the matter connected with the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is a glaring example of speculative journalism, factual distortion, and advocacy masquerading as news. It is necessary, in the interest of accuracy and ...
•VIO on duty The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the October 4, 2024 judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja barring the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (popularly called VIO) from further stopping, impounding, or confiscating vehicles on the road and imposing fines on motorists. In a judgment today, a three-member panel […...
•Convicted IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu The Court of Appeal in Abuja today struck out an appeal filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and convicted terrorism offender, challenging alleged violations of his fundamental rights while in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). The court held that the [&h...
•Convicted IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, has vowed to challenge the life sentence handed to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader by the Federal High Court in Abuja today. Ejimakor spoke shortly after Justice James Omotosho sentenced Kanu to life imprisonment on counts one, four, five, and six, instead...
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