Recently, in an unprecedented manner in the 58 years annals of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, all the 14 serving Justices of the Supreme Court protested their horrific welfare and deplorable conditions of service to the Chief Justice of Nigeria ( CJN ). In a world that has since become a global village, the memo…
Rivers Hails Supreme Court Over Injunction on Oil Wells Ceded to Imo
Rivers State Government has commended the Supreme Court for issuing an injunction to stop the Federal Government from ceding 12 oil wells from the state to Imo State. The Commissioner for Finance and Planning, Isaac Kamalu, said Rivers State Government filed the suit at the Supreme Court against the FGN and its agencies from carrying…
Supreme Court Verdict: I Have Been Vindicated- Saraki
Bukola Saraki, president of the Senate is celebrating the Supreme Court which early Friday gave him a clean bill of health over the about three-year trial of wrongful declaration of assets. The Senate president in a statement personally signed by him stated that there were people who were intent on maligning his reputation for political…
Supreme Court Sacks Two Legislators
Supreme Court has sacked Abubakar Danladi from the Nigerian Senate. Mr Danladi represented Taraba North in the Senate. The apex court also ordered him to refund all salaries and allowances earned in the Senate within 90 days. Mr Danladi was sacked by the Supreme Court on the same day a member of the House of…
Supreme Court Dismisses APC’s Case Against Fayose
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, on Tuesday, crossed yet another hurdle as the Supreme Court of Nigeria affirmed his victory as the duly elected governor of Ekiti in the June 21, 2014 governorship election. The apex court, in an unanimous decision by a seven-man panel led by John Fabiyi, a Supreme Court Justice, upheld…
Supreme Court Dismisses Suit Against Kogi Governor
The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit filed by James Ocholi, governorship candidate of the now defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in the December 3, 2011 election in Kogi State. Through the lawsuit, Ocholi sought an order to sack Idris Wada, the state governor, who won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
Prosecutors To Appeal Pistorius Conviction
South African prosecutors were on Wednesday given the go ahead to appeal the culpable homicide verdict given to Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius for the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The prosecuting team would now seek a murder conviction. If convicted of murder, Pistorius would be open to a prison sentence of at least 15…