A 49 year-old woman slumps as Court dissolves her 21-year-old marriage over childlessness. The both parties agreed to dissolve their marriage and the wife asked the court to grant her husband prayer of divorce. In view of this, the Court has no other choice than to grant the petitioner’s prayer for divorce. The marriage is hereby dissolved. The petitioner has waved the N25,000 bride price he paid. Hence the respondent has no need to return it”. The Court held. “The man said to the court, "I have just 9 years to retire from civil service. I don’t have any child. I am exhausted in this marriage. I have tried my best to have at least child from my wife but all attempts have failed. Separate us, my Lord. The petitioner had earlier told the Court. On her part, the woman told the Court that she had prayed and visited doctors but no child. My Lord, I have gone to different places and taken different concoctions, all to no avail. I had told my husband to go out and impregnate...

Court removes Adamawa lawmaker Bororo. The Federal High Court has sacked Member representing Mubi South Constituency in the Adamawa State House of Assenbly, Hon Musa Umar Bororo. The Federal High Court II which sat in Yola Monday, ordered the member to vacate his seat with immediate effect for leaving the party under which he won election to the House. Bororo had in April last year left the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state into the governing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The high court, presided over by Justice Saleh Kogo, ruled that Bororo who got into the House of Assembly under the APC, ought not to defect to PDP and remain in office. Justice Kogo, however, dismissed suits filed against the member representing Mubi North, Hon Shuaibu Dan Musa and member representing Fufure/Gurin, Hon Shuaibu Babas who similarly defected from the APC to PDP at different times. He said the APC failed to prove its case against the two. The state leadership of the AP...

ECOWAS Court Declares ‘Nigeria’s Cybercrime Act Section 24 Vague, Arbitrary, Unlawful’ The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has said that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court has declared Section 24 of Nigeria’s Cybercrime Act vague, arbitrary and unlawful. SERAP said the ECOWAS Court gave the ruling in a suit it filed before the court, saying that Section 24 of the Cybercrime Act is contrary to the rule of law; therefore, the Nigeria Police cannot charge anyone with cyberstalking based on the provision of Section 24. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has said that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court has declared Section 24 of Nigeria’s Cybercrime Act vague, arbitrary and unlawful. SERAP said the ECOWAS Court gave the ruling in a suit it filed before the court, saying that Section 24 of the Cybercrime Act is contrary to the rule of law; therefore, the Nigeria Police cannot ch...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, withdrew a fresh application they filed to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to allow their agents to participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers that were used for the presidential election that held on February 25. Both PDP and Atiku, who are separately challenging the outcome of the election that was declared in favour of the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, told the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, that they were no longer interested in the application. When the motion ex-parte, marked: CA/PEC/10M/2023, was called up for hearing on Wednesday, Atiku, through his team of lawyers led by Mr. Joe Kyari Gadzama, SAN, told the court that he filed a notice of discontinuance. Atiku’s decision to withdraw the application according to reports, was a fallout of a meeting his ...

The court condemned the torture of Clement by officials of the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police Force. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, ordered the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police to pay the sum of N5million as compensation to Adedotun Clement, an Uber driver who was publicly attacked, assaulted and humiliated by officials of the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Agency and the Nigeria Police Force during the first anniversary of EndSARS in 2021. During the first anniversary of the EndSARS protest on 20th October, 2021, Clement was carrying a passenger from the Island to the Mainland part of Lagos, when he encountered the protest at the Lekki Toll Gate which was disrupted by officials of Lagos State and the police. The court condemned the torture of Clement by officials of the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police Force. The applicant’s counsel, Inibehe Effiong, in his reaction to the judgment, expressed app...

Adeleke vs Oyetola: Appeal court reserves judgment in Osun governorship dispute The court of appeal in Abuja has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by Ademola Adeleke challenging his sack as Osun state governor. Hearing in the appeal started at about 10am on Monday and is presided over by a three-member panel of the appellate court. The panel of justices is led by M.F. Shuaibu. Adeleke was represented by Onyechi Ikpeazu while Oyetola was represented by Lateef Fagbemi. After taking submissions from the senior lawyers, the court reserved judgment for a date that would be communicated to parties in the suit. In the appeal marked CA/AK/EPT/GOV/01/2023, Adeleke is the appellant while Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are first and second respondents. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the PDP are also joined as the third and fourth respondent in the suit. TheCable had reported how the Osun governorship election petition tribunal ruled in fav...

A gift of N2 billion by Nyesom Wike, Rivers State governor, to the people of Ogbum-nu-Abali community in Port Harcourt, A gift of N2 billion by Nyesom Wike, Rivers State governor, to the people of Ogbum-nu-Abali community in Port Harcourt, the state capital, has torn a family in the community apart, and prompted bitter legal dispute. Wike had, as a general compensation and an act of kindness, given the sum to the community, with an instruction that it be shared amongst the families of the community, and to every member of these families, including woman married into the families. However, some of the family heads and their co-conspirators, allegedly devised a means to deprive some members from sharing from the gift by disqualifying them, and insisting that they are non-members of their family association, which is contrary to the governor’s advice. A case in point in this regard is that of the Oro Ada Extended family. Two brothers, Theophilus Achigbule, and Chisom Achigbule...

Presidential Election: BVAS Data Remain Intact After Reconfiguration – INEC Tells Court | The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said information in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, used for February 25 presidential and National Assembly polls are intact. The lead counsel to the Commission, Tanimu Inuwa, gave this assurance at the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Tuesday. INEC is opposing an application filed by the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on BVAS deployed in the presidential poll. Opposing the application, Inuwa argued it would delay the conduct of governorship and state houses of assembly elections scheduled for Saturday. Recall that earlier, Obi’s lead counsel, Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), had argued that the essence of the application was to enable the legal team to extract data embedded in the BVAS, “which represent the actual results from polling units.” “My Lords, this is to ensure that the evidence is preserved bef...

Breaking News:  Court Disbands Ebube Agu security outfit, asks Dave Umahi to Pay 50M to a man that was abducted and brutalized by the outfit. Also court requested that police, army with immediate effect disarm every Ebubegu member. Atimes I begin wonder; these security outfits created by state governor's do they have state legislation backup? The rascality of this so called Ebube agu, calls for scrutiny as there activities has gone beyond any act instituting there existence. People's Opinions:  Eastern security is the only security that must be approved by federal government. With immediate effect not by talk talk. The disbandment followed human rights abuses, extortions, illegal arrests and use of firearms perpetuated by the security outfit. Reacting to the ruling, Powerful described Ebubeagu as political thugs that have committed many atrocities and genocides against Imo and Ebonyi indigenes and all Biafrans in general. A statement by Powerful reads partly: “We ...