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The Kano State High Court has ordered the speaker and members of the Kano State House Assembly to halt their efforts to amend the Kano State Judiciary Funds Management Law 2022, the Kano State Pension and Gratuity Amendment Law, 2023, and the Kano State House of Assembly Service Commission Amendment Law 2021, while the motion is being heard and decided upon. Judge Usman Mallam Na’Abba of the Kano State High Court granted the ex parte...

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The running battle between the Nigerian government and Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, rages on as Kanu’s application for bail will be heard by an Abuja court next month. British national Kanu was arrested in Kenya and forcefully extradited to Nigeria in June 2021. Since then he has been in detention in custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, despite a Court of Appeal judgement on 13 October...

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Abba Yusuf, Kano state governor, says that his government is prosecuting cases of misappropriation to the tune N5, 436,000,000 against the immediate past Ganduje administration. The governor disclosed this while receiving a delegation from the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). In a statement issued by Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu, Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor, on Thursday, Deputy Governor Aminu Gwarzo received the delegation on behalf of the governor. Governor Yusuf acknowledged...

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The post-election tussle in Rivers, Taraba and Sokoto States ended on Thursday after the Supreme Court dismissed the appeals challenging the election victory of governors Siminalayi Fubara, Agbu Kefas and Ahmed Aliyu. Delivering judgements in separate appeals against the three governors, the court noted that the challengers were not convincing enough to have the judgements delivered in their favour. Justice Ibrahim Saulawa vetoed the appeal by Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress, APC, against...

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A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has struck out a suit challenging the legality and implementation of President Bola Tinubu’s peace proclamation on resolving the political crises in the state for lack of jurisdiction. Recall that Tinubu in the height of the political impasse between Governor Fubara and his predecessor Nyesom Wike, brokered an eight-point peace deal in Abuja, also known as the presidential proclamation, which among other stipulations directed that Governor Fubara represents...

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For unlawful arrest, detention, torture, and alleged death of Mark Kajo, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Inspector-General (IGP) of Police to pay Mrs Mary Kajo the sum of N100 million over the death of her husband. Mary Kajo had, in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/600/2023, sued the Nigeria Police Force, I-G, Benue Commissioner of Police, and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) as 1st to 4th respondents respectively. In the...

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In a marathon court session on Friday, the Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered judgements on petitions seeking to remove eight State governors from office after the 18 March 2023 polls. The governors whose elections are being challenged before the court are Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State; Abba Yusuf of Kano State, Alex Otti of Abia State; Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State; Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State; Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State; Bassey Otu of Cross...

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The National Judicial Council, NJC, has said no date was fixed for the swearing-in of the newly appointed eleven Justices of the Supreme Court. Barrister Soji Oye, NJC’s Director of Information in a statement said neither the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, who is the NJC Chairman, nor the Council itself authored or endorsed the purported date which did not emanate from it. The statement followed purported news by an Abuja-based media...

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Justice John Tsoho, Chief Judge of the Federal High Court has been urged to investigate the alleged secret ex-parte order stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), from conducting fresh elections to fill the seats of the Rivers state lawmakers. Recall that 27 lawmakers from Rivers state recently decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), a development that led to their suspension. Also recall that the Rivers State High...

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The Supreme Court in Nigeria has declined to order the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. The separatist leader has been in detention since 2021 despite a Court of Appeal judgment on 13 October 2022 ordering his release. Hopes were high that the Supreme Court would quash the terrorism charges against Kanu who has been in detention since June 2021 when he was forcefully extradited from...

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