Fresh revelations have emerged on how the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, mounted undue pressure on the Supreme Court justice to get his way in the 2003 presidential election. A just released Wikileaks cable revealed how the then Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Muhammed Uwais, confided in the then US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said the speedy disbandment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal constituted by Justice Ayo Salami may have finally exposed the real reason he (Justice Salami) was removed as the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA). In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, […]
By Philips AKPOVIRI, NNP – August 28, 2011 – The free-for-all battle between Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and Justice Isa Ayo Salami, the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA) has reached its final albeit weirdly illogical conclusion: the honourable Justice Salami has been suspended by his contemporaries in the […]
As the tenure in office of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu ends this midnight when he clocks 70 years, it has been gathered that President Goodluck Jonathan will swear-in Justice Dahiru Musdpaher as acting CJN tomorrow (Monday). Musdpaher had been recommended to Jonathan by the National Judicial Council (NJC) as Katsina-Alu’s successor, but […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Honourable Justice Dahiru Musdapher, CFR as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria pending Senate confirmation. This is in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 231(4) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended. The National Judicial Council had recommended […]
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, yesterday said critics of President Goodluck Jonathan over his approval of National Judicial Council (NJC)’s suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Ayo Salami are biased and partisan in their views. He accused them of ignoring the provisions […]
A United States of America-based non-governmental organisation, Justice For All Nations (JFAN), has described the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) and other groups that are kicking against the suspension of Justice Salami by theNJC as enemies of Nigeria. The group said it was unfortunate that those who ought to […]
JUSTICE Donaltus Okorowo of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will, this morning, hear the suit filed by the suspended president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, praying it to set aside the decision of the National Judicial Council (NJC) which suspended him last Thursday. Salami, whose suspension was recommended by NJC […]
Although “transparency, accountability and the rule of law” have been the most often repeated words among politicians and public administrators since the country resumed presidential democracy in 1999, not much attention has been paid to ways and means of proactively manifesting those values through timely references to the appropriate constitutional clauses, as guides to correct […]
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 •Protest by coalition of civil society groups in Lagos over the removal of Justice Salami yesterday. Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), yesterday threatened showdown with the Federal Government over the removal of the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Ayo […]
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