Flowerbudnews: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,has tendered more evidence against MICAD Project City Services Limited and James Nolan before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja. Micad Project City Services Limited and James Nolan are standing trial on a 20-count charge of obtainingContinue Reading
By Biola Lawal Abuja: (Flowerbudnews): A Seventh Prosecution Witness, PW7, in the trial of a former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele on Monday, told Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Abuja, how Emefiele allegedly signed and approved award andContinue Reading
Flowerbudnews The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, and others, on Thursday, prayed a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja to dismiss a suit filed by a lawyer, Azubuike Oko, seeking to stop the appointment of 12 judges into the FCT High Court. Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, who appeared forContinue Reading
Flowerbudnews A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed March 13 to hear the motion filed by the detained President, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, seeking his unconditional release from Defence Intelligence Agency (NIA)’s custody. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date following the Federal Government’s failure to produceContinue Reading
Flowerbudnews A legal practitioner, Azubuike Oko, has responded to the statement of the Chief Judge, FCT High Court, Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, that Oyo State and Kogi currently did not have two judges on the bench of the court. Oko, in a statement he signed on Sunday in Abuja, allegedContinue Reading
Flowerbudnews Dr Olu Agunloye, former Minister of Power and Steel under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, has filed a N1 billion suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations that it published his name on its website’s wanted list. Agunloye, in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/167/2024 and filed byContinue Reading
Flowerbudnews The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday, set aside the inspection order granted Murtala Ajaka, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) by the Kogi Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tribunal had, on Nov. 25,Continue Reading
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has administered the oath of office to 11 new justices of the Supreme Court. The newly sworn-in justices include Jummai Sankey, Chidiebere Uwa, Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, Haruna Tsammani, and Moore Adumein. Others are Obande Ogbuinya, Stephen Adah, Habeeb Abiru, JamiluContinue Reading
Flowerbudnews A lawyer, Emmanuel Ekpenyong, has dragged the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) to Supreme Court over alleged failure to promulgate an order to bring Part 1 of the Foreign Judgment Reciprocal Enforcement Act, 1990 into operation since its enactment in 1960 to commence on Feb. 1, 1961. Ekpenyong,Continue Reading
