STRONG indications have emerged that serving judges may have been recommended for exemption from election petition tribunals by the 29-man judicial reforms panel put in place by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher. He had expressed an opinion in that direction at the annual lecture of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal […]
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Ikechukwu Nnochiri THE Supreme Court, yesterday, put five of the nation’s Governors in suspense as it reserved judgment indefinitely on the suit brought before it to determine the validity of the tenure of the five Governors whose tenure were renewed upon fresh elections. The decision of the apex court […]
There are strong indications that the Supreme Court will on Tuesday (today) decide whether or not the tenure of Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, where the April 2011 governorship election did not hold, has expired. Four other governors, whose tenures will be affected by any decision of the Supreme Court, are Governor Alhaji Ibrahim […]
The nation’s judiciary and the United Kingdom Justice Ministry have commenced talks on the possibility of judicial cooperation on terrorism and terrorism-related cases. Top on the list is the possibility of training selected Nigerian judges particularly in the area of case management, a relatively new genre in the judicial process and an area in which […]
The Supreme Court will this morning hear the appeal filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) challenging the decision of the Court of Appeal which upheld the decision of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja which had earlier elongated the tenure of five governors. The apex court had invited the trio of Chief Richard Akinjide, […]
The Supreme Court yesterday struck out the twin interlocutory appeals filed by President Goodluck Jonathan and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against the decision of the Presidential Election Tribunal, which allowed the filing of the petition challenging the outcome of the presidential election by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) on Sunday May 8, 2011. […]
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Baba Suwe Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Detained Lagos-based comedian, Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a Baba Suwe, yesterday filed a fresh motion praying a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos to vacate its earlier order made on October 21, empowering the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to […]
The Supreme Court has fixed October 31, 2011 to deliver judgement in the consolidated appeals bordering on the Borno State Governorship Election Petition where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the April 26, 2011 polls, Alhaji Mohammed Goni is challenging the victory of Governor Kashim Shettima of the All Nigeria Peoples Party […]
Convener of the Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER), Mr. Ayo Opadokun has assessed President Goodluck Jonathan’s 100 days in office and warned that the country would go under with the way Judiciary was being treated in recent past. “A nation, where the last hope of the common man and the stabilizing force like […]
Controversy over the perjury charge against the suspended President of the Court of Appeal (PCA) Justice Ayo Salami, deepened yesterday as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeks his prosecution over the alleged offence. The party’s demand is the fall-out of the face-off between the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu and […]
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