The Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has dismissed an appeal filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) against a judgment in favour of Richard Abbey, a pipeline surveillance contractor with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Bonny local government area of the state. In a unanimous decision, the court presided ov...
•Late former Head of State, General Sani Abacha The family of the late military head of state, General Sani Abacha, yesterday approached the Court of Appeal, Abuja division, to void and set aside Justice Peter Lifu’s judgment dismissing a property suit the family brought before the lower court. Justice Lifu dismissed the suit the family [&hell...
•Governor Usman Ododo The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the election of Usman Ododo as the Governor of Kogi State. A three-man panel of the appellate court affirmed the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which affirmed the victory of Ododo as the duly elected governor of Kogi State in the November […]
•Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Friday, said there is no cause to worry over the decision of the Appeal Court on the crisis in the State House of Assembly. The governor who spoke during an inspection of the reconstruction of the Zonal Hospital project in Bori Town, the headquarters of the Khana […]
•The 25 Rivers Assembly members are led by Martin Amaewhule (right) The Court of Appeal, Abuja has nullified the expulsion of Martin Amaewhule and 24 others from the Rivers State House of Assembly by the Rivers State High Court. The 25 lawmakers are loyalists of the former Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, now Minister of […]
•Baba Ijesha The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos today affirmed the judgement of a Lagos State High Court, which sentenced Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, popularly called Baba Ijesha to five years imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old minor. The appellate court in its lead judgement delivered by Justice Folashade Ojo found th...
•Yahaya Bello The Court of Appeal, Abuja division today, issued an order stopping the contempt suit filed by the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Recall that Bello had filed a fundamental human rights suit against the EFCC to protect himself from being arrested and detai...
•Embattled ex-Governor Yahaya Bello The Court of Appeal in Abuja today did not sit to hear the appeal lodged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the order of a Kogi High Court which restrained the anti-graft agency from arresting the immediate-past governor, Yahaya Bello. The Kogi court, in a ruling on April [&hellip...
The State and National Assembly Appeal Court sitting at the Court of Appeal in Lagos today, November 2, upheld the election of Jesse Okey-Joe Onuakalusi of the Labour Party (LP) as the duly elected House of Representatives member for Constituency ll Oshodi-Isolo, Lagos. The court in a unanimous decision dismissed the appeal lodged by the [&hel...
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