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Nnamdi Kanu pleads not guilty to 7-count charge

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration had amended its charges against the separatist leader including accusing him of insulting the Nigerian and inciting his followers to do same.
Abba Kyari

Judge threatens to throw out Abba Kyari’s N500m fundamental rights suit

Mr Kyari also sought for an order, directing the NDLEA to tender a written apology to him in two national dailies.

Contempt: Court sets aside conviction of EFCC chairman

Justice Chizoba Oji set aside the proceedings on Thursday after hearing an application brought by the EFCC Chairman.

FG withdraws new terrorism charges against Nnamdi Kanu, defence lawyers

The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako, said she too was just saw the new charges this morning and rejected the plea of the prosecution to go ahead with the case.

Finally, FG designates bandits as terrorists

The gazette proscribing bandit groups in the North as terrorists was made on November 25, 2021 but it was unfolded on Wednesday.

Electoral Act: Appeal Court stops AGF, others from frustrating appeal against judgment

The grouse of the PDP is that President Buhari having assented to the Bill on February 25, 2022, cannot give any directive to the National Assembly to take immediate steps to remove the section or any section of the Act on any ground whatsoever.

Court affirms Oye as APGA national chairman

The court condemned the action of a legal practitioner, CN Nwagwu, for deliberately misleading the court and for causing unnecessary confusion that wasted the judicial time of the court.

Farouk Lawan jailed for 7 years over $3m bribe

The sentences are to run concurrently.

2023: Suit seeking Atiku’s disqualification dismissed as group heads to Appeal court

It also urged the court to declare that given the circumstances surrounding Atiku’s birth, he cannot be cleared by either Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to vie for presidency.
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