PERSPECTIVE – The kidnap of Justice Joy Isaiah Unwana
By Etim Etim In the late afternoon of Monday, December 18, a High Court judge in Akwa Ibom State, Hon. Justice Joy Isaiah Unwana, was kidnapped on her way from work. Her chauffer was also…
Category: Judiciary
Leveraging FOI Act for Investigative Reporting
By Sunday Aikulola Twelve years after enactment of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, participants at a two-day workshop, which held in Ibadan, Oyo State, recently, have described the Act as a powerful tool of…
Explain how N535m was spent on school feeding during lockdown, Court orders Minister
By Taiye Agbaje A Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered Dr Betta Edu, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, to release details of how the sum of N535.8 million was expended…
EFCC PRESS RELEASE – Alleged N6.9 billion money laundering: We airlifted N1.219 billion to Ekiti for Fayose in two tranches, says Obanikoro
[caption id="attachment_25731" align="alignright" width="236"] Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro[/caption] A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, told Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, how the inability of…
Labour Party accuses Supreme Court of breach of its right to fair hearing
The Labour Party (LP) has accused the Supreme Court of committing unmitigated breach of its constitutional right to a fair hearing. The Party in a statement signed its National Secretary, Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim said…
PERSPECTIVE – Why Oborevwori defeated Omo-Agege, Gbagi, Pela
[caption id="attachment_16341" align="alignright" width="225"] Mr. Felix Ofou.[/caption] By Felix Ofou On Friday, November 24, 2023, the Lagos Division of Court of Appeal dismissed the petition filed by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, candidate of the All Progressives…
Appeal Court victory: Oborevwori beckons on opposition to work with him, says he ’ll turn Delta to construction site
[caption id="attachment_25618" align="alignleft" width="300"] Governor Oborevwori with mic addressing Journalists shortly after a thanksgiving service over the Appeal Court Victory at Winners Chapel Osubi on Friday[/caption] Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Friday, said…
Appeal Court to Omo-Agege, Gbagi, Pela: Your appeals against Oborevwori lack merit, dismissed; affirms Delta Governor’s election
The Court of Appeal, Lagos on Friday, in a unanimous judgment, affirmed the election of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as winner of the March 18, poll, in Delta State. The…
PERSPECTIVE – APC’s ‘snatch, grab and run’ agenda of opposition parties’ mandates is inimical to democracy
By Atiku Abubakar The ideal notion of democracy does not just reside in a representative government but essentially rooted in the plurality of ideas. Thus, for a system to be seen as truly democratic, it…
PERSPECTIVE – Delta 2023: Omo- Agege in panic as Appeal Court ruling pending
By Our Special Correspondent The defeated governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the March 18, 2023, Delta gubernatorial elections, Obaisi Ovie Omo Agege is reportedly running from pillar to post in trepidation,…