•Nigerian lawyers The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has expressed shock at reports about judges bullying lawyers and also unlawfully ordering their detention. The first report of such a thing emanated from the proceedings in Suit No. PHC/301/2016, Mr. Bodiseowei Zidougha v. The Chief of Naval Staff & 2 Ors before the High Court of Rivers ...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has thrown its weight behind the indigenous Ijaw and Urhobo people of Warri Federal Constituency, strongly condemning what it described as the deliberate and illegal attempts by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to subvert the Supreme Court’s clear and binding judgemen...
•INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court has expressed doubt over the neutrality of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in relation to the internal affairs of political parties. Justice Egwuatu made the observation at the resumption of proceedings in a contempt case brought against I...
•Natasha The Federal High Court in Abuja today found the senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, guilty of contempt over a satirical apology she posted on her Facebook page on April 27. Justice Binta Nyako, while delivering judgment in the suit filed by Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan challenging her suspension,...
•INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu A Federal High Court in Abuja has told the National Rescue Movement it can serve court documents on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, through someone else. Justice Obiora Egwuatu made the ruling today, reports The PUNCH. He said the documents, including Form 48 (...
•Natasha and Akpabio The Federal High Court in Abuja today adjourned till tomorrow, Tuesday, May 13, for the definite hearing of the contempt claims made against the suspended Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, by Senate President Godswill Akpabio. Justice Binta Nyako fixed the date following a subm...
An Enugu State High Court on Monday sentenced the Medical Director of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu, Dr. Ngozi Unaogu, to the Nigeria Correctional Centre for disobeying a court order. The Medical Director was jailed alongside the Director of Clinical Services of the hospital, Dr. Vincent Ubochi, by Justice Ngozi Oji, who ordered ...
•LP national chairman, Julius Abure The Labour Party (LP), has warned the self-proclaimed National Chairman of the party, Callistus Okafor, against deliberately walking into jail for contempt of court. National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh said this in Abuja, yesterday. He was responding to Okafor’s chairmanship claim, reports Sa...
•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...
The Abuja division of the Federal High Court has given legal backing to the contempt proceedings initiated against the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Effiong Asuquo, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of the Special Investigation Unit (S.I.U), over alleged disobedience of its order directing the unconditional release of a bank ma...
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