Sa'ad Abubakar, the sultan of Sokoto, says political leaders who disobey court orders are setting a dangerous precedent.Speaking on Thursday in Abuja at the fourth quarter meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council, the sultan said disregard for the courts will lead to lawlessness.Abubakar said court orders must be obeyed to the letter.He also asked Nigerians to be law-abiding in the [...]
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A state high court in Osogbo, Osun state, has sacked Idowu Adediwura, obalufe of Ife, and ordered his replacement within 21 days.Foluke Awolalu, a judge, gave the ruling on Wednesday.Obalufe, the traditional prime minister of Ife, is next in rank to the ooni.Abayomi Elugbuji, on behalf of himself and the Aga ruling house, had filed a suit challenging the installation [...]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) re-arraigned Adeyemi Ikuforji, former speaker of the Lagos state house of assembly, at a federal high court in Lagos on Wednesday.He was re-arraigned alongside Oyebode Atoyebi, his former personal assistant over alleged N338.8 million money laundering charges.The defendants were first arraigned on March 1, 2012, before Okechukwu Okeke, a judge, on a 20-count [...]

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says millions of Nigerians are not bothered about the rearrest of Omoyele Sowore, convener of Revolution Now.Adesina spoke on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Monday.Sowore was rearrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) at a federal high court in Abuja last Friday -- less than 24 hours after he was released.This sparked off an [...]

Gavel, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has asked the European Union to blacklist the Department of State Services (DSS) over the rearrest of Omoyele Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow Movement.Sowore was rearrested at the Abuja federal high court by the secret police on Friday - less than 24 hours after he was released on bail.Armed DSS operatives had stormed the court, forcing [...]

Allen Onyema, chief executive officer of Air Peace, says he did not instruct Johnmary Jideobi, a lawyer, to file a human rights suit on his behalf.The US indicted Onyema of bank fraud and money laundering. He was charged alongside Ejiroghene Eghagha, the airline’s chief of administration and finance, who is said to have committed aggravated identity theft in connection with the scheme.He denied [...]

A high court in Ikeja, Lagos, has fixed January 2020 for hearing of the suit Akinwunmi Ambode, former governor of the state, filed against the house of assembly over the procurement of 820 buses.The lawmakers, who said the former governor acquired the buses without their approval, had set up a panel to probe him.The panel invited Ambode but he did [...]