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A policewoman, Inspector Iniobong Umoren, Thursday was ordered to pay N5 million fine to a commercial tricycle operator for unlawful arrest and seizure of his tricycle (Keke). Jeremiah Sunday Udo, the victim, claimed to have acquired the tricycle through a hire purchase deal amounting to N1.9 million. The Uyo Division of the High Court in Akwa Ibom State heard that Inspector Umoren detained the petitioner for five days without access to food and water. Justice Ntong Ntong, presiding over the case, gave the order in response to an application for the enforcement of fundamental rights brought by the applicant, Udo,…

The Supreme Court Friday pinned the disputes over the outcomes of the March 2023 governorship elections in seven states of the federation. The states are Abia, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Cross River, Lagos, Plateau, and Zamfara. The cases which started at the various election petitions tribunal in the various states gave rise to decisions which aggrieved parties had appealed against at the Court of Appeal and subsequently at the Supreme Court. How Supreme Court’s rulings state by state Abia State Justice Uwani Abba-Aji who read the lead judgement reviewed the case from the Abia State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. Related posts Supreme…

The Nigerian Supreme Court has reinstated Yusuf Abba Kabiru of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) as the duly elected Kano State governor. The apex court dismissed the petition instituted against Yusuf by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate, Nasir Yusuf Gawuna. The Supreme Court on Friday reversed the judgments of the Court of Appeal and the Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which nullified the election of the governor. Justice John Inyang Okoro, who delivered the lead judgment, held that the law and natural justice were turned upside down by the two lower courts to arrive…

The police have begun investigation into the petition by Nigerian singer and songwriter, Tiwa Savage, against David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido over alleged bullying and threat to her life. The Lagos police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, who stated this on Wednesday in Lagos, said ‘‘I can confirm that we received the petition. We have begun investigation.” NAN reports that Savage in the petition dated 9 January, addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Adegoke Fayoade, accused Davido of uttering disrespectful words in reaction to a post which included herself and the singer’s Baby mama, Sophia Momodu’s Instagram story. The…

A marketing staffer of Globus Bank, Ikorodu branch, Lagos State who died in one of its toilets parted with a sorrowful note: ‘‘I can’t bear the pain anymore.’’ Amarachi Ugochukwu, the 32-year-old marketing staffer of the first generation bank, died on Monday, 8 January, 2024. For every 100,000 people in Nigeria, there are 9.5 self-murders, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Ugochukwu reportedly committed suicide leaving note in her diary with a bottle of ‘Snipper’ insecticide beside her. She was discovered to have gone missing from her desk which was unusual and a search party was conducted and her…

The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Umo Eno of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the validly elected governor of Akwa Ibom State after dismissing the appeals of the three parties challenging the outcome of the election held on March 18 2023.   This comes after the apex court five-member panel led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji dismissed the appeals of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Young Progressives Party (YPP) and the Action Alliance (AC) based on the non-qualification of the governor over allegations of certificate forgery, which the governor denied. The Court of Appeal had upheld the…

Disquiet is gripping the camps of two Nigerian Governors awaiting the Supreme Court’s verdicts over the possibility of them retaining their hard-won offices. The governors are Abba Yusuf of Kano State, and Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State who appealed against their removal from office by Appeal Court. The Supreme Court, on December 21, 2023, reserved judgement in the appeal filed by Governor Yusuf, challenging the verdict of the Court of Appeal and the State Election Petitions Tribunal that sacked him. Also, the Supreme Court, on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, reserved judgement on a suit filed by Governor Mutfwang seeking to…

Nigerian Army has arrested an errant soldier seen in a viral video hauling insults  on the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for ordering the arrest of one of his colleagues for driving one-way. Recall that in a video clip last week, Sanwo-Olu was seen asking his security details to run after some motorcyclists said to be violating the state’s traffic rules. One of the traffic violators, however, told the governor that he was a soldier while the security operatives were dragging him into their vehicle. Angered by the comment, Sanwo-Olu said, “You are telling me you are a soldier; that…

Akwa Ibom Governor, Umo Eno has directed relevant authorities to investigate an attempted murder of a member of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in the state. The NYSC medical doctor posted to St. Theresa Hospital, Use Abat in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of the state was attacked on January 2, 2023, by an unknown person who broke into her apartment and asked her to transfer money into his account. It was gathered that her assailant left her after sensing that help was coming her way when some patients in the hospital knocked on her door. Recall that one…

Fear enveloped the people of Ikot Inyang Village as a decrepit Max truck on Monday crushed to death two final-year students of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The speeding truck said to have had a brake failure veered off the road also crushed the motorcyclist who paddled the students at one of the deplorable portions of Ikot Inyang, one of the immediate communities of the polytechnic. The Uyo-Ikot Ekpene-Aba Federal Highway snakes through the busy village caused by influx of students to the area. Abasienyene John, a native of…