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Jobs Law & Justice NewsJUDGES SALARIES: At Least 60 SANs Besiege National Industrial Court In Abuja

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 6, 2022

ABUJA — At least sixty Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) have stormed the National Industrial Court in Abuja for a legal battle against the Federal Government on the poor salaries of Nigerian Judges. The senior lawyers are to battle the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), National Judicial Council (NJC) and the National Assembly (NASS) in a suit seeking for an order to compel the upward review of Judicial Officers payment. The senior lawyers, who came...

Crime & Punishment Law & Justice NewsExtradition: Federal High Court Grants DCP Kyari Permission To File More Evidence

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 3, 2022

ABUJA — The detained Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari has been granted permission by the Federal High Court in Abuja to file more evidence against a suit by the federal government seeking to extradite him to the United States of America for trial in criminal charges. The court presided by Justice Inyang Ekwo granted the request of Kyari made through his lead counsel, Nureni Jimoh, SAN, in a motion on notice. Jimoh who...

Law & Justice Money NewsChinese Sentenced To Two Years Imprisonment For Tearing Naira Notes

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 2, 2022

LAGOS — Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has sentenced a Chinese man to 24 months imprisonment for ripping up Naira notes. The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), secured the conviction of the Chinese national, identified as Li Lei Lei, on Tuesday. Li was arrested after “mutilating the Nigerian currency” during an altercation with airport officials while he was trying to board a...

Corruption Law & Justice NewsFormer Zamfara State Governor Arrested

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 30, 2022

Former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, was on Sunday arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in connection with the ongoing investigation of the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, who was alleged to have diverted over N80bn. The embattled accountant-general, who has been in the EFCC custody since May 16, had been suspended indefinitely. EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed Yari’s arrest but declined comments. A senior official of the EFCC,...

Corruption Law & Justice NewsCourt Orders Further Detention of Okorocha Over N2.9bn Corruption Charges

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 30, 2022

ABUJA — The former Governor of Imo State and Presidential Aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Rochas Okorocha, appeared before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, where he pleaded not guilty to the N2.9 billion corruption charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Embattled former governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha on Monday appeared before a Federal High Court in Abuja where he pleaded not guilty...

36 States’ Attorneys-Generals, Nigeria Governors’ Forum Lost Case Against Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit

Law & Justice Local Government News36 States’ Attorneys-Generals, Nigeria Governors’ Forum Lost Case Against Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 24, 2022

ABUJA — Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed a suit filed by the 36 states’ Attorneys-Generals and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum challenging the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) from implementing its guidelines on the spending of the local governments. Defendants in the suit are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the NFIU and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE). The 36 states, in the...

Human Rights & Freedom Law & Justice NewsLife In Coal City, Enugu On Sit-At-Home Days

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)May 24, 2022

ENUGU — The Igbo people are an ethnic group in Nigeria with people residing all over the world. In fact, all over the 774 local Government areas in Nigeria, these resilient and industrious men and women set up businesses living harmoniously with the locals. However, they are predominant in South East geographical zone of the nation which is their fatherland; Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo state. In less than 3 months, the Monday sit-at-home...

Law & Justice Local Government NewsCommunity Leaders Demand The Release Of Detain Council Chairman

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 16, 2022

The detention of the Takum local government council chairman of Taraba state, Hon Shiban Tikari, by the Nigeria Army has received sympathy from community leaders of the Local Government. It was leant that the chairman, Hon Shiban Tikari, was arrested alongside the Chief of Hausa (Sarkin Hausawa) of Takum and the clan head of Chamba, the (Mai Agwan Chamba) but the two were later freed out of detention. It was gathered by the locals that...

Crime & Security Law & Justice NewsBlasphemy: 34 Lawyers Defence Lawyers In Court As Police Arraign Suspects In Sokoto

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 16, 2022

Police on Monday arraigned two suspects, Bilyaminu Aliyu and Aminu Hukunci over the lynching of a 200-Level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto State, Deborah Samuel, on May 12. The student was lynched to death last week over alleged blasphemy. The suspects, co-students of the deceased, were arraigned at a Sokoto Chief Magistrates’ Court for their alleged participation in the crime. They pleaded not guilty to the crime. Prosecuting Inspector Khalil...

Northern Christian Group, Amnesty International Demands Prosecution Of Deborah’s Murderers, As Islamic Cleric, Sokoto Govt Aide Justifies Act

Crime & Punishment Law & Justice NewsNorthern Christian Group, Amnesty International Demands Prosecution Of Deborah’s Murderers, As Islamic Cleric, Sokoto Govt Aide Justifies Act

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 13, 2022

The Northern Christian Elders Forum (NOSCEF) has condemned in strong terms the gruesome murder of a Christian college girl and 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. NOSCEF in a statement by its Chairman, Ejoga Inalegwu, in Kaduna on Friday, called on the government to immediately apprehend and make an example of those who perpetrated the dastardly act. The Association noted that the act was purely...

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