LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has struck out a suit by an aggrieved former deputy national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Callistus Okafor, challenging the election of the party leadership. The judgement of the three-member panel read by Justice Biobele Abraham Georgewill, on Friday, held that the subject matter before…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal Enugu Division, on Friday, affirmed the judgment of Ebonyi High Court, Abakaliki, which quashed a suit challenging the defection of Governor David Umahi and his deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe, to the All Progressives Congress. Governor Umahi and his Deputy had on November 2020 left the PDP, a platform…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)–The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed an application challenging the suspension of Mr Uche Secondus from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A panel of three justices led by Justice Haruna Tsammani struck out the suit on Tuesday during its sitting in the Rivers State capital. The PDP had…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The case in appeal number CA/L/1105/2018 between Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike( a.k.a Evans) v. The Inspector General of Police & 4 Ors was dismissed yesterday in favour of the Police. The Appellant Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (a.k.a. Evans), filed an application for the enforcement of his Fundamental Right for the release of his trucks from the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Maryam Sanda, the woman sentenced to death for killing her husband, plans to file an appeal at the Supreme Court in a bid to overturn the judgements of the lower courts. Her counsel and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Joe Gadzama, disclosed this to reporters on Friday in Abuja. This followed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal has declared as unconstitutional and void, the Police Act 2020, enacted in September this year as it affects the constitutional mandate of the Police Service Commission. It ruled that the provision of the Act was in conflict with paragraph 30 Part 1 of the Third Schedule to the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed Duoye Diri as governor of Bayelsa State. A five-man panel of the appellate court in two unanimous judgments on Friday reversed the majority judgment of the Governorship Election Tribunal which sacked Diri. In a split judgment on August 17, two out of three judges…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The election of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo has been nullified by a Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, the state capital. According to Daily Nigerian, the court ruled in favour of the appellant Adelabu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on all counts. The court upturned the ruling of the election…