•Late Diego Maradona The Argentine court trying the medical team of late football legend Diego Maradona over his death suspended the trial yesterday for a week over questions about a judge’s impartiality. The court ordered the suspension after defense lawyers said that the judge’s involvement in a documentary about the case constituted a possi...
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, today, arrived at the Federal High Court in Abuja ahead of the hearing of the claim by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, that the lawmaker recently flouted the court order. Justice Binta Nyako had yesterday, fixed today for the hearing of the contempt claim by the senate president against Akpoti-Uduaghan,...
•Wig and Gavel The Kogi State Judicial Service Commission has ordered the compulsory retirement of a judge, Alemeru Adekunle Bamidele, of the Area Court over misconduct. The commission also suspended Magistrate Tanimu U. Muhammed from adjudicatory duties for two years and issued him a warning letter, reports The PUNCH. These decisions were tak...
•Samuel Anyanwu The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, today, gave Senator Samuel Anyanwu seven days to tender before it, the judgement of the Supreme Court he said restored him as the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the directive after Anyanwu’s lead counsel, Chief Ken Njamanze, SAN, drew [&...
•Natasha and Akpabio Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court Abuja has recused himself from the case filed by the Senator Representing Kogi Central District, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. At the proceedings today, Justice Egwuatu announced his decision to withdraw from the matter after the usual court appearances, reports Channels ...
•Embattled former CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele The Special Offences Court in Lagos has refused to stop hearing the corruption allegations made against the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice Rahman Oshodi in his ruling today dismissed the request for him to recuse himself from the trial, stating that...
•Emefiele A Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has adjourned till tomorrow, Wednesday, February 26 to rule on whether or not to continue to hear the case of the former Governor of the Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Rahman Oshodi adjourned for ruling after Emefiele’s Counsel, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olalekan Ojo, asked t...
A judge in Spain was put under investigation yesterday after a video emerged of him aggressively questioning a woman who had accused a high-profile former lawmaker of sexual assault. Spain’s legal watchdog, the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), said in a statement that it had opened the internal investigation into the judge after receiv...
•Nnamdi Kanu The absence of Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, stalled a N50 billion suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against the federal government. The matter, which was fixed for today, could not proceed because Justice Ekwo was on official […]
•Donald Trump The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case ordered today that sentencing be delayed indefinitely, a legal win for the President-elect as he prepares to return to the White House. “It is… ordered that the joint application for a stay of sentencing is granted to the extent that the November 26, 2024 […]
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