BREAKING: Alleged Money Laundering, Appeal Court Nullifies Metuh’s Conviction, Orders Fresh Trial

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaBREAKING: Alleged Money Laundering, Appeal Court Nullifies Metuh’s Conviction, Orders Fresh Trial

PilotnewsDecember 16, 2020

The Court of Appeal on Wednesday nullified the conviction of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh. This was based on the grounds of bias allegedly exhibited by the trial judge who sentenced him to seven years’ imprisonment for money laundering charges in February 2020. The three-member panel led by Justice Stephen Adah ordered a retrial of the case. Justice Adah who read the lead judgment ordered that the case...

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Adamawa: Sultan Foundation Trains 160 Women, Girls Rights Defenders On Fighting Gender Based Violence

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPhilanthropyAdamawa: Sultan Foundation Trains 160 Women, Girls Rights Defenders On Fighting Gender Based Violence

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)December 16, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent ____ The Sultan Foundation for Peace and Development has trained  one hundred and sixty (160)  women and girls rights defenders  on ways to better engage with relevant authorities and community leaders on ways to end violence against women and girls in the state. Participants gathered at the Nurses House, Yola, the Adamawa state capital for the four-days intensive training. The training was  aimed at mitigating and curtailing the increasing rate...

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DRC Ratifies Protocol Establishing African Union Rights Court

AfricaLaw & JusticeNewsDRC Ratifies Protocol Establishing African Union Rights Court

PilotnewsDecember 12, 2020

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has deposited its instrument of ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Court announced on Friday at the African Union Headquarters. The instrument was deposited in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 8 December 2020, the Court said in a statement. DRC’s ratification of the protocol, meaning its passing of laws recognising...

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Insurgency: Don’t Be Distracted by ICC Investigation, COAS Tells Troops

Law & JusticeMilitaryNational SecurityNewsInsurgency: Don’t Be Distracted by ICC Investigation, COAS Tells Troops

PilotnewsDecember 12, 2020

 The Chief of Army Staff (COAS),  Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has urged troops not to be distracted by the move by International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate war crimes against Nigerian forces in the north eastern part of the country. Buratai made the call in a statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sagir Musa, on Saturday in Abuja. He said that the call followed the Friday statement from ICC prosecutor,  alleging that there...

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NBA Yola Branch Joins War Against Rape, Gender Based Violence

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaNBA Yola Branch Joins War Against Rape, Gender Based Violence

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)December 12, 2020

Members of the Nigeria Bar Association Yola branch on Saturday embarked on one and half hour walk along the major streets of Jimeta sensitizing people on the new Administration of Criminal Justice Law in the State. Speaking to Journalists after the walk, branch chairman of the Association Barr Jibrilla Jimeta said the exercise is to sensitize the populace on the need to put all hands on deck and chase the menace of Rape and Gender...

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BREAKING: Fugitive Former Pension Boss Maina Slumps in Court

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPeopleBREAKING: Fugitive Former Pension Boss Maina Slumps in Court

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)December 10, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent ______ The fugitive  former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has just slumped before trial Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Maina is reportedly to have slumped down shortly after the court resumed proceedings in the 12-count charge preferred against him and his firm, Common Input Property and Investment Limited by Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes...

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Enough Is Enough!: Leave Adamawa Or Face Death Penalty, Fintiri Tells Kidnappers, Others Criminals

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaEnough Is Enough!: Leave Adamawa Or Face Death Penalty, Fintiri Tells Kidnappers, Others Criminals

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)December 10, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent ______ Amid incessant cases of kidnappings plaguing the state, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state has warned kidnappers and other criminal kingpins  to either leave or risk death penalty. Fintiri gave the warning , during a courtesy visit to Gangwari Ganye, HRH Alhaji Umaru Adamu Sanda, at the traditional council’s palace in Ganye Local Government southern senatorial district of Adamawa state. Fintiri said the state government would take a...

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High Court Judge in Kano Accuses NDLEA of Shielding Drug Dealers

CorruptionLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaHigh Court Judge in Kano Accuses NDLEA of Shielding Drug Dealers

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)December 10, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ A judge of Federal High Court in Kano Lewis Allagoa has accused Kano office of National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA with shielding drug dealers. The Judge threatened not to entertain any NDLEA case henceforth since they deliberately omit the main culprits in trafficking drugs, only to bring the poor to face trial. Mr Allagoa made the accusation while attending a case of a truck conductor Shehu Haruna accused with drug...

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Court Remands Teenager for Allegedly Burning Ex-lover’s Girlfriend to death

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaCourt Remands Teenager for Allegedly Burning Ex-lover’s Girlfriend to death

PilotnewsDecember 9, 2020

A 19-year-old girl, Jemila Ibraheem, was on Wednesday remanded in police custody in Lagos State, over alleged murder of her ex-lover’s new girlfriend. Ibraheem, who is an upcoming actress and resides in Satelite town area of Lagos, was charged with a count of murder. The court however, did not take her plea. Magistrate P.E. Nwaka, ordered that the defendant be kept at the Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, pending advice from the Lagos State Director...

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Fraudulent Government: Kumangar Attacks Ribadu, ‘’You Ran Most Fraudulent Regime in EFCC’’

CorruptionLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaFraudulent Government: Kumangar Attacks Ribadu, ‘’You Ran Most Fraudulent Regime in EFCC’’

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)December 9, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ The Director General media to Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state, has called on a former chairman of the economic and financial crimes commission, Nuhu Ribadu, to clear the air on issues surrounding the financial misappropriation allegations levelled against him by his predecessor, Farida Waziri. Solomon Kumangar, the spoke’s man to the governor, made the call in Yola while reacting to Ribadu’s statement that Fintiri’s government is fraudulent....

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