•Tiger Woods Florida judge ruled yesterday that Tiger Woods can leave the United States to seek “comprehensive inpatient treatment” after his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence. Woods’s attorney, Douglas Duncan, submitted the motion to travel in Martin County Court, citing the 50-year-old golfer’s urgent need for an “intensive,...
•Nigerian lawyers The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has criticised Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja for ordering a lawyer, Marshall Abubakar, to kneel in court. Abubakar, the lead defence lawyer to human rights activist Omoyele Sowore, drew the ire of the judge when he raised his voice while making submissions in [&hel...
•The protesters The precincts of the Federal High Court in Abuja today witnessed a crowd of registered members and stakeholders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) staging a peaceful protest, demanding that Justice Joyce Abdulmalik withdraw from cases involving the party and other opposition groups. Operating under the banner of ADC Regis...
•Abubakar Malami Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has recused himself from two cases filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami. Justice Egwuatu, who was recently reassigned the cases by the Chief Judge of th...
•Tinubu and incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has demanded the immediate release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, accusing Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, of bias in Kanu’s conviction and sentencing. The group alleged that the judge convicted Kanu without substantial evi...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has returned the alleged $9.7 million terrorism financing case involving the Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, Yakubu Adamu, to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court for reassignment to a substantive trial judge. Justice Emeka Nwite, today, ordered that the case file be forwarded to the Chief Judge, [&hel...
•Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro Venezuela’s deposed president, Nicolas Maduro, is scheduled to appear before a federal judge in New York at noon today to be formally notified about the charges against him, the court said. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized by US forces during a pre-dawn raid Saturday in Caracas and […]
•Convicted former prime minister of Malaysia Najib Razak A Malaysian judge sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 15 more years in jail on Friday after convicting him of abuse of power and money laundering in a sovereign wealth fund graft scandal. Najib was also fined 11.4 billion ringgit ($2.8 billion) for his role in […]
•PDP National Chairman Tanimu Turaki The Kabiru Turaki-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Justice Joyce Abdulmalik to recuse herself from the suit filed against the leadership of the party. A faction of the party in the camp of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, led by its acting National Chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman, had filed ...
•The suspect, Mohammed Kumo A magistrate at the Chief Magistrate Court in Gombe State, Mohammed Kumo, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over allegations of extortion and bribery. In a statement yesterday, the anti-graft agency disclosed that Kumo was brought before Justice H.H. Kereng of the Gombe High Court on...
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