COVID-19: ICRP Calls For Release Of Zakzaky , Other Prisoners Of Conscience

A Nigerian human rights group, the Initiative For Conciliation And Right Protection (ICRP) has joined the call for the release of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife Malama Zeenah Ibraheem in the wake of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The group on Wednesday averred that considering the inadequate resources to manage this deadly virus in this country, ‘’we call on the government to release all prisoners that are on bail, the elderly, those with chronic illnesses and all prisoners...

2019 Election: Supreme Court Dismisses APC’s Request to Review Judgment

The Supreme Court in a four to one split ruling on Friday dismissed a request to review its judgment filed by the Zamfara All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general elections. The apex court refused to set aside its consequential order that made the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) beneficiary of all elective positions in the 2019 general elections in Zamfara. The judgment delivered by Justice Inyang Okoro reiterated the position of the court that...

Paris Club Refund: Court Orders Katsina Govt to Pay Over 13.3bn to Firm

Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered Katsina State Government to pay a firm, Mauritz Walton Nigerian Ltd, N13.3 billion for the debt management services it rendered to the state. The firm was said to have rendered the services, which aided the refund of the 217.3 million dollars to Katsina State by the Federal Government. Justice Ekwo, in a judgment, held the firm was able to establish, through credible evidence, that...

ICPC Arrests Ex-Presidential Panel Chairman, Obono-Obla

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has arrested the suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Ekoi Obono-Obla. Spokesperson of the commission, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday night, said the arrest followed his “months of running from the law.” ”Obono-Obla’s arrest by operatives of the commission on Friday in Abuja, comes after he was...

Kidnapped Anglican Bishop’s Wife Regains Freedom

The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, on Friday in Lokoja, confirmed the release of the wife of the Anglican Bishop of Bari Diocese in Kano State, who was kidnapped last week. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Archbishop Okoh announced this during the consecration service of five new bishops and presentation of two archbishops, at the Cathedral Church of Holy Trinity, Lokoja, Kogi State. The service...

How “Mompha” Operates Unlicensed BDC—Witness

The trial of Ismaila Mustapha aka Mompha an internet celebrity continued today, March 18, 2020 before Justice A. Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, as a prosecution witness told the court that Mompha did not remit tax to the Federal Government for a period of seven months while his company was already in existence. According to a statement from EFCC’s head of media and publicity, Tony Orilade, Mompha is standing...

Zamfara Govt Uncovers 200 Ghost Doctors

The Zamfara Government on Friday said it has discovered 200 ghost medical doctors from its payroll. The state Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabi’u Garba, who disclosed this to newsmen in Gusau, noted that the ghost doctors were uncovered during the ongoing civil servants verification exercise under the State Hospital Service Management Board (HSMB). “When the present administration came in, we had 287 medical doctors in the government’s payroll purported to be working in various General...

Deposed Emir Sanusi Drags IG, DSS, Others to Court Over Alleged Detention

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the deposed Emir of Nano, on Thursday, dragged the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Mohammed Adamu; Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, to the Federal High Court, Abuja, over his alleged detention. Also joined in a motion ex-parte with suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020, filed by his team of lawyers led by Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who is leading the legal team are the Attorney General of  Kano State and Attorney General of the Federation,...

Senate Wants Vice-President and Governors to Lose Immunity if Guilty of Corruption

The Senate is seeking to amend a section of the constitution which gives immunity from criminal prosecution to vice-president and governors. The bill wants vice-president and governors to lose their immunity if found guilty of misappropriation of funds and sponsoring thugs to perpetrate violence that cause injury or death. The president, however, is excluded from the bill. Sponsored by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 constitution, Deputy Senate President,...

FG Set to Crackdown on Former Governors and Ministers Collecting Double Pay and Life Pensions

In a bid to enforce a court judgement, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, Attorney General of the Federation has written to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), requesting the list of ex-governors and ministers that are receiving double pay and life pensions. The letter which was received by SERAP from Mr. Malami, signed on his behalf by Anne C. Akwiwu (Mrs), Director Civil Litigation and Public Law Department, said it wanted the names in order...

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