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Nigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, has set aside the judgment of the National and State House of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba, Delta State. The court affirmed the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Ngozi Okolie, as the duly elected lawmaker. In the February election, Ngozi Okolie of LP polled […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party (LP) has dismissed claims that its party leadership, led by Julius Abure, has been sacked by the Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State. Instead, the LP said it was another devastating blow for the Lamidi Apapa-led faction as the Court of Appeal in Owerri dismissed the appeal filed by one Mr Basil […]
Continue ReadingNigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has accused the president of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of submitting fake Chicago State University Certificate to Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Hundeyin made his accusation by sharing the photos of the alleged fake certificate on his Twitter handle. This is coming, after the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) […]
Continue ReadingA fresh motion on notice seeking to stop the inauguration of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s next President on May 29 has been instituted at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The suit marked CA/CV/259/2023 was instituted by Ambrose Owuru, who is constitutional lawyer and a past presidential candidate who ran for the presidency under the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, set aside the tribunal judgment that nullified the election of Ademola Adeleke as governor of Osun State, with N500,000 awarded as cost against the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its candidate, Gboyega Oyetola. In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, led by Justice […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, Nigeria on Thursday upheld the appeal of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The court also discharged and acquitted the embattled leader of the proscribed group declaring as illegal and unlawful, the abduction Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria on July 9, 2021 […]
Continue ReadingYoruba Youth Leader (YYL) and Oodua Nation Self-determination activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho has lost at the Court of Appeal. According to TheNation, the Ibadan Division of the Court of Appeal on Tuesday set aside the judgment which declared the attack on the house of Yoruba nation agitator Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka […]
Continue ReadingA suit seeking to remove Osun governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been dismissed by an appellate court. The high court judgement which affirmed Osun State governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke, as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for last Saturday’s governorship election, has been upheld by […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal of the Enugu Division, on Friday, affirmed the judgement of Ebonyi High Court, Abakaliki, which quashed a suit challenging the defection of Governor David Umahi and his deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe, to the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Recall that governor Umahi and his Deputy had on November 2020 left the PDP, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo state has set aside the judgment of the Ondo State High Court that sentenced the founder of the Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Prophet Alfa Babatunde, to life imprisonment over a missing child. Recall that the Ondo State High court had on October 6, 2020, sentenced the Prophet to […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, Nigeria, has ordered the government of Rivers and Lagos states to refrain from any action giving effect to the August 9, 2021 judgment of the Federal High court sitting in Rivers State, which conferred powers on Rivers State to collect Value Added Tax (VAT) and Personal Income Tax. Delivering […]
Continue ReadingThe Abuja Division of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, yesterday, dismissed the appeal filed by a former member of the House of Representatives from Kano State, Hon. Farouk Lawan, seeking to end the $3 million bribery charge brought against him by the federal government. Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) had arraigned Lawan […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Appeal Court, Ekiti Division, has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs Senator Dayo Adeyeye challenging the verdict of the election petitions tribunal which nullified his victory in the senatorial election. The tribunal, headed by Justice Danladi Adeck, had on September 10 nullified the victory […]
Continue ReadingFormer Bank Director, Dauda Lawal, has asked the Court of Appeal in Lagos to order the Nigerian Government to return to him the sum of N9.08 billion he forfeited to it on February 16, 2017. Lawal said the Federal High Court, Lagos, which ordered the forfeiture of the money had no jurisdiction to do so. […]
Continue ReadingThe Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Wednesday, compounded the woes of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State as it dismissed three appeals by a faction of the party against the October 10 judgment of the State High Court, which declared the congresses of the party void. But the faction, led by […]
Continue ReadingThe Court of Appeal in Ilorin, Kwara State, has nullified the lower court’s judgment that awarded a N4billion cost as sum of damages against SaharaReporters and its founder, Omoyele Sowore, in a suit between the two and Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s Senate President. On Tuesday, the Appeal Court set aside the judgment of Justice A.S. Oyinloye […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday reviewed the 14-year prison term imposed on former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame and reduced it to 12 years. The court reduced the prison term after it upheld the judgment of Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an Abuja High Court who had on the 30th of May convicted Nyame […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has reviewed the 14-year sentence against Senator Joshua Dariye, former governor of Plateau State and reduced it to 10 years. Justice Stephen Adah, one of the panel justices who sat over the appeal, gave the ruling on Friday. He reduced a sentence in the counts to 10 years, […]
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