•Abuja High Court Journalists were ordered out of Court 6 of the Federal High Court in Abuja, venue of the trial of six men accused, among others, of plotting to take over the government. Some journalists had arrived at the court a little after 8 am and secured seats thereafter on the last row, awaiting […]
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja The National Assembly has commissioned an ultra-modern newsroom designed to strengthen legislative communication, enhance transparency and preserve Nigeria’s parliamentary history. Speaking at the commissioning ceremony yesterday, the Secretary, Research and Information Directorate, Pharmacist Ali Umaru, said ...
The Senate President, Godswill Obot Akpabio, has finally taken over proceedings at the Senate plenary. The Frontier earlier reported that the plenary was presided over by the deputy president, Barau Jibrin when the embattled Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, resumed this morning after a six-month suspension. The Front...
•Natasha and Akpabio The Senate has asked Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to stay away from its proceedings, saying the suspended lawmaker can’t resume yet. In a statement yesterday, Senate spokesman Yemi Adaramodu insisted that there was no subsisting court order mandating the Senate to recall the lawmaker before the expiration o...
•Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has declared the removal of the re-instated Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, as illegal, unconstitutional, null and void. In a judgment delivered today, the court also nullified the proceedings and resolutions of the House hel...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected the request by Rivers State Government to stay proceedings in a suit seeking to stop allocation of funds to all the Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Rivers State. In a ruling today, Justice Joyce Abdulmalik held that the application for stay made by lawyer to the Government […]
•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...

