Category: News

Court nullifies sections of CAMA 2020 for infringing on citizens’ fundamental rights

admin

A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja has nullified some sections of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020 which were considered to infringe on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizens.Justice James Omotosho, who struck out the sections in a judgment, held that the plaintiff, Mr Emmanuel Ekpenyong, had a locus standi to institute the suit on the subject matter.Ekpenyong, an Abuja-based legal practitioner, had in a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1076/2020, sued the National Assembly, Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Attorney-General for the Federation (AGF) as 1st to…

Read More

Judiciary’ll nullify Presidential Election if it fails substantially to comply with Electoral Act – Onitsha NBA boss

admin

Alphonsus Nweze The chairman of Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Onitsha branch, popularly called “Premier Bar”, Mr. D. I. Uba, has expressed confidence in the judiciary to deliver justice to all parties concerned in the Election Petition arising from the just concluded 2023 general election. The Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar have taken to Court, and Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC), who the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the winner of the Presidential Election are among…

Read More

Alleged cyberstalking: Court admits social media influencer to N10m bail

admin

A Federal High Court on Thursday admitted Chude Nnamdi, a social media influencer bail in the sum of N10 million.Nnamdi, who was arraigned before Justice Gladys Olotu, pleaded not guilty to a one-count charge of cyberstalking.Justice Olotu also ordered Nnamdi to produce one surety, who must be a level 14 civil servant or a resident of the FCT with verified landed property.The Inspector-General of Police, the complainant, had sued Nnamdi as a sole defendant in the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/130/2023.In the amended charge dated and filed on April 17, the police…

Read More

Kebbi First Lady, UNIMAID Teaching Hospital CMD, others to speak at book launch on cervical cancer, VVF

admin

The First Lady of Kebbi State and wife of the Governor, Dr Zainab Bagudu Shinkafi and the Chief Medical Director of University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) Teaching Hospital, Prof Ahmed Ahidjo, are expected to speak at a book launch on Cervical Cancer and Vesico-Virginal Fistula (VVF). Dr Bagudu Shinkafi is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medicaid Cancer Foundation. The book, titled: “NADAMA,” written by Hajia Fatima Usara of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), is a Hausa drama whose theme is derived from the name of the book itself,…

Read More

Obiano abandoned us – Anam People

admin

•Wants Soludo to rescue them Alphonsus Nweze The Anam people of Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State have decried their abandonment by the former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, when he was in the saddle as the Governor of the State. Speaking to journalists in Umuikwu, Anam yesterday during the rememberance and funeral ceremony of Mrs Monica Nwodu Mmadubueze, the mother of Mr. Odikpo Mmadubueze, a journalist, some Anam indigenes lamented that Obiano’s eight years in office was a waste for them inspite of their massive…

Read More

Onitsha Correctional Centre Skill Acquisition Takes Off In October

admin

By Alphonsus Nweze The multi-billion naira Onitsha Correctional Centre Skill Acquisition for the inmates being built by the Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese, Most Rev. Dr. Valerian Okeke, will take off in October this year. Archbishop Okeke himself announced this On Easter day during a mass with the inmates of the Onitsha Correctional Centre. He said the Comptroller General of Corrections has approved their application to allow them fence the centre, expressing hope that by then everything would have been completed and the training of the inmates would start in earnest.…

Read More

Court vacates interim forfeiture order against Ekweremadu’s seized property

admin

It is not yet uhuru though for embattled Ekweremmadu however, a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, set aside the Nov. 4, 2022 interim forfeiture order on 40 landed property linked to Sen. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice.Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, said he had found that the application for forfeiture filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was not brought in good faith and ought to be struck out.Justice Ekwo further held that the EFCC failed to disclose material facts a out the matter. He…

Read More

Alleged drug deal:Abba Kyari, others know fate March 22

admin

An application filed by the DCP Abba Kyari and three other suspended police officers seeking to quash the criminal charges against them has been adjourned until March 22 for ruling.Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court, Abuja fixed the date after counsel for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agencyb (NDLEA), Joseph Sunday, and the defence lawyers, presented their arguments for and against theb motion.BNDLEA had filed criminal charges against Kyari (1st defendant) and four of his colleagues who were b of Intelligence Response Team (IRT).They include ACP Sunday Ubia,…

Read More

FHC CJ invites AGF, NBA to nominate 9 candidates for employment as judges

admin

The Chief Judge, Federal High Court (FHC), Justice John Tsoho, has invited the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, to nominate suitably qualified persons for appointment as judges of the court.Justice Tsoho also invited the President, Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Yakubu Maikyau, for the nomination in line with the National Judicial Council (NJC)’s Guidelines and Procedural Rules for Appointment of Judicial Officers of Superior Courts.He said candidates for the appointment should be from the five states, which include Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Gombe, Ogun and Oyo.The FHC’s Assistant Director…

Read More

Rights Group Flays Army’s New Postings – Accuses Nigerian Army of Sliding into Ethno-Religious Army

admin

•Demands Indigenisation of Postings Alphonsus Nweze A human right and pro-democracy group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has flayed the recent postings by Nigerian Army as being lopsided and ethno- religious. In a statement released to the media, the rights group said the postings encourages the prevailing insecurity in the country and posed a threat to the credibility of the 2023 polls. Intersociety accused the authorities of the Nigerian Army and the Presidency of working hard to collapse the High Command cadre of the Army…

Read More