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Osun 2022: Oyetola closes case at tribunal, panel admits Adeleke’s results
The Osun State Election Petition Tribunal on Saturday admitted in evidence the file with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) containing the secondary school certificate and testimonial of Governor Ademola Adeleke of the…
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Aisha Buhari bows to pressure, withdraws suit against critic, Aminu
First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has withdrawn the defamation case against Aminu Adamu Mohammed, a final year student of Federal University, Dutse (FUD), Jigawa state.
The prosecution counsel, Fidelis Ogbobe, said following the intervention of…
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N260m Fraud: Court sends ex- VC, Prof. Garba to 35 years in prison
A Federal Capital Territory High Court, Garki, Abuja, on Thursday found Prof. Magaji Garba, a former Vice Chancellor of Federal University Gusau guilty of a five count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and forgery and…
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Contempt: Court orders arrest, imprisonment of Army chief
A Federal High Court sitting in Minna, the Niger State Capital, has ordered that the Chief of Army Staff, General Farouk Yahaya, be arrested for contempt.
The presiding judge, Justice Halima Abdulmalik, who issued the warrant and presided…
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Zamfara: Court grants bail to ex-information minister
The Zamfara State Shari’a Court has granted bail to former Information Minister, Ikra Bilbis.
Bilbis was arrested by the police last Tuesday and brought to the court for allegedly destroying billboards of the All Progressives Congress and…
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JUST IN: Aisha Buhari’s critic ‘secretly arraigned’, remanded in prison
The Nigeria police have arraigned Aminu Mohammed, a final-year student of the Federal University, Dutse, FUD, Jigawa State arrested by security operatives for allegedly criticizing the first lady, Aisha Buhari.
The police had earlier told…
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JUST IN: Court sentences IGP to three months in jail for contempt
Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja has sentenced the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba to three months in prison for disobeying a court order.
Delivering ruling, Justice Olajuwon issued the order…
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JUST IN: Court annuls Adamawa Speaker’s Senatorial ticket
A Federal High Court I, sitting in Yola has annulled the senatorial primary for Adamawa Central Senatorial District, conducted by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) won by the Speaker, Adamawa State House of Assembly, Aminu Iya-Abbas.…
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Alleged $1.3m Fraud: APC senatorial candidate, A.A Zaura loses bid to stop trial
The Supreme Court has ruled that Kano Central Senatorial Candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC) Abdulsalam Abdulkarim, also known as A.A Zaura, should appear before the Federal High Court in Kano to face the charges preferred against…
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Osun 2022: Court nullifies local government election conducted by OSIEC
A Federal High Court in Osun, on Friday, nullified the State Local Governments Election conducted by Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC).
The Presiding Judge, Justice Ayo-Nathaniel Emmanuel, held that the election conducted by…
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