UMUAHIA — Abia State High Court presided over by Justice Benson Anya has ordered the Nigerian government to pay the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N1 Billion over infringement of his fundamental rights. According to the court the damages to be paid to Kanu were for the invasion of his house. The judge stated that the defence counsel did little or nothing to defend the evidence...

UMUAHIA — A High Court sitting in Abia State has ordered the Federal Government to pay the sum of N1 billion to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, as well as tender him an apology. The embattling leader of the IPOB had approached the Court to demand N5 billion over the invasion of his father’s house by the military on September 10, 2017. According to Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ajimakor,...

LAGOS — Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, has said the leak of the unauthorised version of the report reopened a deep wound and generated much tension. The governor said this during a press conference on Tuesday. This is the first time the governor is commenting on the report of the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality. The report of the panel was leaked shortly after it was submitted to the Lagos state government on...

LAGOS — Moyosore Onigbanjo, attorney-general and commissioner for justice in Lagos has said the report presented by the judicial panel is filled with many contradictions. According to him, these contradictions make the report on police brutality findings unreliable. On November 15, the panel had submitted two reports. One on cases of police brutality and another on the Lekki shooting incident. The panel had listed nine fatalities from the shooting at the Lekki tollgate on October...