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Nigerian Supreme Court has fixed Thursday for the judgment in the appeals filed by the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi against President Bola Tinubu. Atiku and Obi are praying the Supreme court to set aside the judgment by the presidential election petition tribunal […]
Continue Reading“We must do what has never been done before. What is the argument on the other side? Only this, that no case has been found in which it has been done before. That argument does not appeal to me in the least. If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has filed new documents against President Bola Tinubu before the Supreme Court in which he accused the President of forgery and lying under oath, and should therefore be disqualified and removed from office. Evidence filed by the former vice president, according […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court has affirmed Athan Achonu as the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the November 11, 2023 election in Imo State, Nigeria. Basil Maduka, a contestant in the primaries had objected to Achonu’s candidature at both the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal. But the justices of the Supreme Court on Thursday […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has urged the Supreme Court to declare that the Presidential Election Petition Court’s five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani erred in law when it dismissed his evidence allegedly showing he won the February 25 polls with about 8.7 million votes. INEC had declared on March 1 […]
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court of Nigeria had, in a split decision of four-to-one, set aside the conviction and sentencing to seven years’ imprisonment of Senator Peter Nwaoboshi for fraud and money laundering. In a lead judgment by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the apex court held that the EFCC unjustly and maliciously prosecuted Nwaobishi and the two companies […]
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 ReadingSupreme Court of Nigeria intends to appoint eight new justices to bring the number of the juries to the required twenty one, and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has asked its members to indicate interest. Supreme Court currently has 13 justices with eight vacant slots, and the long tradition (except on few occasions in the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court Friday dismissed the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the disqualification of the ticket that produced the president-elect, Bola Tinubu and the vice-president-elect, Kashim Shettima in the 2023 presidential election. In an appeal marked SC/CV/501/2023, the opposition party sought Tinubu’s disqualification on grounds of the double nomination of his vice […]
Continue ReadingThe head of Ukraine’s Supreme Court was dismissed from his post on Tuesday after being detained in a bribery investigation which anti-corruption authorities cast as their biggest-ever case. Kyiv has redoubled efforts to clamp down on corruption despite Russia’s invasion, and doing so is vital to meet the conditions for joining the European Union. Oleksandr Omelchenko, a […]
Continue ReadingIn its verdict on Tuesday, Supreme Court of Nigeria has declared Ademola Adeleke as the Governor of Osun State. Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared that Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 403,371 votes, to defeat then-incumbent governor Adegboyega Oyetola, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who got 375,027 votes. But […]
Continue ReadingCatholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Nigeria, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has issued a powerful message to Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the world celebrates Easter Sunday. The fiery cleric said, Nigeria’s most pressing need is not infrastructure, but rather, ensuring the safety and well-being of Nigerians. Bishop Kukah’s Easter message also extended to the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court, on Wednesday adjourned the new naira policy suit to March 3, 2023 for judgement as the court did not do much on the contempt application filed by the plaintiffs against AGF Abubakar Malami and CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele. Responding to counsel for Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo on the issue of contempt, Justice […]
Continue ReadingWhen the news story that the Supreme Court had gone rogue on critics of its recent judgments was first shared with me, my initial thought was that it had to be an internet hoax. I imagined it was impossible that a SC would ever single out individuals in the bid to justify itself. SC might […]
Continue ReadingWhen I opened my WhatsApp on Saturday, I saw a higher than usual volume of messages and forwards from friends. The first one I opened was a riotously uneducated, sidesplittingly error-ridden, indefensibly malapropistic press statement attacking me for calling out the Supreme Court’s bizarre perversion of justice in recognizing Senate President Ahmed Lawan as Yobe North’s […]
Continue ReadingI was awoken on this side of the world by news of the reversal by the Nigerian Supreme Court of Senate President Ahmed Lawan’s primary election loss. I was already mentally prepared for it after the same Supreme Court affirmed Godswill Akpabio’s fraudulent primary win a few days ago. It’s a well-planned judicial choreography. The […]
Continue ReadingAttorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, has filed processes challenging the jurisdiction of the Nigerian Supreme Court to suspend the scheduled deadline of Naira swap and demonetization. Malami, in a preliminary objection he filed on behalf of the Federal Government, applied for an order striking out the suit that […]
Continue ReadingFormer Kenyan Prime Minister and long time opposition leader, Raila Odinga, filed a petition to the country’s top court on Monday challenging the result of the August 9 election that handed victory to his rival, William Ruto. In the petition, Odinga asks the court to nullify the vote’s outcome on several grounds, including a mismatch […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, June 27, General Muhammadu Buhari swore in Olukayode Ariwoola as Nigeria’s third Chief Justice in as many years, the fourth of his seven year-old tenure as president with electoral legitimacy. Ariwoola’s predecessor, Tanko Muhammad, departed from office earlier on the same day, the second successive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to be forcibly “resigned” from […]
Continue ReadingIn a judgment on Friday, a seven-member panel of Nigerian Supreme Court, headed by Justice Musa Dattijo Mohammed, was unanimous in holding that President Muhammadu Buhari, having participated in the making of the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022, by assenting to it, could not turn around seeking to void it. The […]
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