Tag: Supreme Court
Justice Chukwudifu Oputa is dead
Eminent jurist and retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa is dead. A statement released by the family…
Fashola Takes Jonathan To Supreme Court
Kazeem Ugbodaga The government of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has dragged the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan to…
Amaechi floors Omehia at Supreme Court
Nigeria’s Supreme Court this morning dismissed the case filed by Celestine Omehia against Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, in…
Supreme Court orders Mohammed Abacha’s trial for theft
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme court in a unanimous decision Friday morning ordered Mohammed Abacha, son of late former…
Bode George’s conviction quashed by Supreme Court
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday morning upturned the conviction in 2009 of former Deputy national chairman of the…
Supreme Court Fixes Judgment Date For Okorocha’s Appeal
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Supreme Court of Nigeria has fixed 24 January 2014 to deliver judgment in an appeal…
Supreme Court Stops PDP Campaign Flag-off In Anambra
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Thursday in Abuja barred the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from going ahead…
You can vote for ‘none of the above’, court rules
It used to be the stuff of Hollywood film, but it is now reality in India: voters being given the…
Supreme Court Affirm’s Mimiko’s Victory
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the victory of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of the Labour Party…
Ondo election: Final verdict Thursday
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned to Thursday, 29 August to deliver its decision on an…
Supreme Court to hear Ondo poll appeal this week
Nnamdi Felix/ Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court has rescheduled the hearing of appeals filed against the judgment of the Court of…
Al-Mustapha Must Not Escape Justice —Kudirat’s Children
Following the filing of an appeal at the Supreme Court by the Lagos State Government against Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and…
Kudirat’s Murder: Lagos Drags Al-Mustapha To S/Court
The Lagos State Government has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against the judgments delivered by the Appeal Court…
NDLEA: Baba Suwe Heads To Supreme Court
Kazeem Ugbodaga Ace Nigerian actor, Mr Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a. Baba Suwe has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against…
Supreme Court endorses death verdict on baby killer
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence passed on Akinola Olatunbosun, for killing a three-month-old baby in 2003…
Kekere-Ekun, 5th female apex court judge takes oath
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court’s fifth female Justice was on Monday sworn in by the Chief Justice of…
UK apex court rules on Nigerian couple’s bitter divorce case
The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom will on 12 June, give its verdict on a high profile divorce case…
Supreme Court Dismisses Ex-Governor Oni’s Appeal
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A five-man panel of the Supreme Court on Friday in Abuja dismissed an appeal instituted by…
S/Court: Phone thief must die by hanging
Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday in Abuja ordered that the ring leader of a notorious armed robbery gang, Mr. Salisu…
Sovereign Wealth Fund: No deal yet between FG, states
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Federal Government and state governors on Thursday, at the resumed hearing of the suit filed…
Supreme Court Dismisses Bode Ola’s Case Against Ojudu
The Supreme Court has dismissed the case instituted by Senator Bode Ola against Senator Babafemi Ojudu and the Action Congress…
Kenya: Odinga challenges poll result
The party of Kenya’s outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga, defeated in presidential polls by Uhuru Kenyatta, will file a petition…
FG, Lagos state clash over control of hotels
Nnaamdi Felix / Abuja The battle for the control of Nigeria’S hotels, travel agencies, eateries and tourists centres resumed at…
Lagos Wins Eko Court Towers In Supreme Court
It’s thumbs down for Nigeria’s graft and corruption. Nigeria’s Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by the estate of…
Alleged minister’s assailant acquited 9 years after
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday discharged and acquitted an alleged assailant of former minister of information…
Supreme Court affirms Nyako’s victory in Adamawa
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Tuesday in Abuja affirmed the victory of Adamawa state Governor Murtala Nyako…
ACN Is Not Losing Face In South West
There is growing concern that the popularity of the Action Congress of Nigeria, CAN, is waning in Lagos State but…
Supreme Court decides Nyako’s fate 20 November
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Supreme Court on Monday fixed November 20, 2012 to deliver judgment in an appeal brought…
Adekeye, Apex Court Jurist Bows Out
Supreme Court jurist, Justice Olufnlola Oyelola Adekeye, who attained the mandatory retirement age of 70 years on 28 October, retired…
Court hands victory tonic to Obama ahead of debate
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Supreme Court handed an advantage to the Democrats and President Barack Obama on Tuesday in ruling…