A former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGoF), Chukwunyere Nwabuoku, has been handed down a jail term of eight years, over offences bordering on fraud and corruption. He was sentenced on Monday by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who found him guilty in all the nine …
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THE Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced Mahmud Usman, one of the proscribed terrorist organisation, Ansaru, to a 15-year imprisonment for illegal mining activities. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order after Usman, a.k.a Abu Bara’a/Abbas Mukhtar, pleaded guilty to count 10 of the 32-count terrorism charge …
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THE Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, granted bail to Mrs Veronica Ekeh, who is standing trial for alleged human trafficking, setting the bail amount at N10 million. The court, however, remanded her husband, who is also standing trial with her on the same allegations, in prison. The trial judge, …
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THE Federal High Court will begin its 2025 annual vacation from July 28 to Sept. 16. A statement from the court’s Director of Information, Mrs Catherine Oby Christopher made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja said that the court would resume sitting on Sept. …
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A Federal High Court in Kaduna has ordered former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, and five others to pay N900 million in damages for the unlawful detention of Adara community elders in 2019. Delivering the judgement on Tuesday, Justice Hauwa’u Buhari ruled in favour of a suit filed by …
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THE Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has ordered the immediate redeployment of five judges in various divisions of the court. The move comes just weeks after the National Judicial Council (NJC) sanctioned several judges for various acts of judicial misconduct. According to a statement released …
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Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, April 7, 2025, ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N13m recovered from one Chinedu Chinedu Vincent Ezeudemba to the Federal Government. Ezeudemba had obtained the money from a victim by claiming that he had …
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THE Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has reassigned the case filed by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against Senate President Godswill Akpabio and others to Justice Binta Nyako. Newsextra24 reports that the case, which was previously before Justice Obiora Egwuatu, will now proceed under Justice Nyako, with the …
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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the remand of three Lagos State House of Assembly workers in Department of State Security Services (DSS) custody over alleged assault. The defendants, Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle, and Fatimoh Adetola, were named in charge No. FHC/L/273C/2025, dated Feb. 24, 2025. The …
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By Inusa Salihu, Maiduguri FEDERAL High Court setting in Abuja, has barred Nigeria’s main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from electing its Zonal committee members, and national ex-officio for northeast. The election, which was slated for Saturday, February 22, 2025 became halted following a suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/298/2025. Delivering the judgement …
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