Court Sentences Fake Lawyer to Three Months Imprisonment

…Refers Employer to NBA for Disciplinary Actions Anambra State High Court sitting at Otuocha has sentenced Obinna Oraezue, a ‘fake lawyer,’ to three months imprisonment with hard labour at Onitsha Correctional Centre for contempt of court. The court also referred M.T Olisaeke Law firm, which hired Oraezue as a “junior lawyer” without proper checks, to the Onitsha branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) for investigation and disciplinary actions. Oraezue, dressed in full regalia of...

Kano Crisis: CJN Summons Presiding Judges over Ruling Conflicts

CJN Summons Chief Judge of the Federal High Court and the Chief Judge of Kano State High Court By Hassan Umar Shallpella The conflicting interim injunctions regarding the Kano Emirate tussle have forced the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola to summon the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court and the Chief Judge of Kano State High Court to appear before him. The conflicting orders have led to significant confusion regarding the rightful authority and protection of...

NAFDAC Uncovers Fake Cosmetics Producer In Lagos

A fake cosmetics producer at Balogun Trade Fair Gate in the Trade Fair Complex, Lagos has been uncovered by the Investigation and Enforcement Directorate of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC over illegal activities. NAFDAC, in a post via its X handle on Monday, April 22, revealed that the producer, Pius Eyoh, the owner of Pasco Global Limited, was caught manufacturing, packaging, distributing and selling substandard and counterfeit cosmetic products,...

2024 Aguata NBA Law Week: AG, Prof. Ifemeje Touts Landmarks and Expectations

The Anambra State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Sylvia Ifemeje, has announced that the end-to-end full automation of the 31 High Courts in Anambra and the Ministry of Justice, when completed by the end of the year, would make the state the first to achieve such feat in the Nigeria justice sector. Speaking after she received the “Amazon of the Frontline Bar” award from the Aguata branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA,...

High Court Prevents Kano State House Of Assembly From Amending Laws

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...

FG opposes Nnamdi Kanu’s bail application as years-long trial lingers

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...

Kano State Government Is Prosecuting Over 5 Billion Corruption Cases

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...

Supreme Court strikes out appeals against Fubara, Kefas and Aliyu

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...

Rivers Crisis: Court strikes out suit challenging Tinubu’s peace resolution

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...

Court Orders Inspector-General of Police To Widow N100 Million

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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