A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, fixed Feb. 28, 2022 to hear a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.Justice Taiwo Taiwo fixed the date after counsel to the Department of State Services (DSS), Idowu Awo, informed the court that his clients had a counter affidavit which had not been served on Kanu.Awo, at the resumed hearing prayed the court for more time to effect the service of the application on Kanu’s lawyer, Maxwell Opara.But Opara described the…
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Court awards N2m fine against DSS over seizure of Sowore’s iPhones
It was an unusual scenario when the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to pay the Convener, #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, the sum of N2 million over unlawful seizure of his mobile phone in 2019 at the point of his arrest.Justice Anwuli Chikere, in a judgment, also ordered the DSS to release forthwith the iPhones and the sum of N10,000 which were alleged to have been forcefully taken away from him without court warrant.Afterwards, Sowore, through his lawyer, Funmi Falana, in a fundamental rights…
Read MoreContempt of Court: Businesswoman drags GTB to court for refusing to unfreeze account
For an act of impunity and arogant disobedience, a businesswoman, Jessica Adaeze, has sued Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) over its alleged refusal to comply with a court order, directing it to unfreeze her bank account. Adaeze, through her lawyer, Friday Iburu, in a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed before Justice Anwuli Chikere of a Federal High Court, Abuja, prayed for five reliefs of which GTB is the sole respondent in the matter. Adaeze had alleged that her bank account number: 0178246081 was frozen by the commercial bank through an order…
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