The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the tribunal judgment which declared the All Progressive Congress candidate, Nasiru Gawuna winner of the governorship election. The Tribunal led by Justice Oluyemi Osadebay had nullified the election of Governor Abba Yusuf by declaring 165, 663 of his votes were invalid. The tribunal held that the
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…The tribunal had last month in a unanimous judgement held that the PDP candidate was not validly nominated by his party The Court of Appeal sitting in Jos has affirmed the ruling of the National and State House of Assemblies Election Petition Tribunal, which sacked the lawmaker representing the Bassa/Jos North Federal Constituency in the
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…FG had applied that the execution of the judgment be suspended The Court of Appeal on Friday suspended the execution of its own judgement which discharged the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, Nnamdi Kanu. The appellate court had faulted the rendition of Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria and also set aside the
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‘The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday upheld the appeal of the detained leader of IPoB and ordered his release’ The National Security Council, on Friday, said it was “considering the appropriate action to be taken” on the recent release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. It also backed
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Eleven out of the eighteen judges elevated from high courts to the court of appeal are of northern extraction. The eighteen judges were elevated from the Federal High Court and some State High Courts. The approval was communicated to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad by the Chief of Staff to the
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the conviction and seven years jail term imposed on Olisa Metuh, the former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and his company, Destra Investment Limited. The appellant court had fixed today, Wednesday, December 16, to deliver judgment in Metuh’s consolidated appeals challenging the verdict of
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More troubles for Maryam Sanda as Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, upheld the conviction and death sentence that was handed to her, daughter-in-law to a former Chairman of the PDP, Mohammed Haliru. Delivering judgment, Justice Stephen Adah, who read the decision on behalf of the three-member panel of justices held that the trial
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The Court of Appeal has declared the Police Act 2020, enacted in September 2020 as it affects the mandate of the Police Service Commission (PSC) is unconstitutional and void. The provision of the Act, it ruled, is in conflict with paragraph 30 Part 1 of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution which empowers the
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The Manhattan district attorney can now obtain US President Donald Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns, a federal appeals court has ruled, dealing a blow to the president whose tax returns has been hidden from the public since he entered politics. The unanimous ruling made on Wednesday October 7, by a three-judge panel in New
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Friday upheld the election of Senator Duoye Diri as the governor of Bayelsa state. The five-man panel of justices of the appellate court, in its judgment in the appeal filed by Diri and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), set aside the August 17, 2020 judgment
Read moreA five-man panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, reversed the nullification of the November 16 governorship election that produced Senator Douye Diri as governor of Bayelsa State. The five man panel in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Obande Ogbunya, held that the majority judgment of the Bayelsa
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The Court of Appeal in Abuja will on Friday deliver its judgments on the separate appeals challenging the August 17 , 2020 verdict of the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal which sacked Governor Duoye Diri from office and ordered fresh poll to be conducted within 90 days . Diri , his party , the
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President of the Court of Appeal Justice Monica Dongban-Menem has constituted the election tribunal to adjudicate petitions arising from the just concluded Edo governorship election. The tribunal’s Secretary, Sunday Martins said, in a statement, Edo Chief Judge approved the use of the High Court on Sapele Road, Benin City as venue of the tribunal’s sitting.
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, has announced September 14, 2020, as the date to hear the appeal filed by the Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, challenging his sack by the tribunal. Some factional members of the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party (ANDP), brought an application to be joined as parties in the appeal. ANDP’s
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has angrily expressed itself immediately by saying that it will approach the Supreme Court over conflicting rulings by the Court of Appeal on its powers to deregister political parties. Festus Okoye, who is the National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education, in a statement, said: “Faced with
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