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The supreme court has ruled that the federal government should henceforth pay allocations directly to local government councils from the federation account. Delivering judgment in the suit on Thursday, a seven-member panel of justices held that state governments have continued to abuse their powers by retaining and using the funds meant for LGAs. READ
This is the summary of all the Supreme Court judgments today across the nation in a bid to try redeeming their battered image. The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege against the return of Sheriff Oborevwori of the PDP as Governor of Delta State. The former Deputy Senate President is challenging
The Supreme Court has returned governor Dauda Lawal as the duly elected governor of Zamfara state. The apex court in a landmark ruling, set aside, the judgement of the Appeal Court which had declared the governorship election inconclusive and ordered a re-run in three local government areas of the state. READ ALSO BREAKING :
The Supreme Court has upheld the election victory of Abba Yusuf, officially confirming him as the governor of Kano state. The five-member panel of the apex court deemed the earlier decisions by the tribunal and the court of appeal, which initially removed Yusuf, the NNPP candidate, from the governorship, as erroneous. The Apex court Upturns
Human rights lawyer and former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu , has revealed that after four weeks of delivering its judgment on the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi’s election appeal, the Supreme Court has not yet released the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the judgment since October 26.
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will on November 27, swear in 58 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs. The Supreme Court made the disclosure in a statement that was signed and made available to newsmen on Sunday by its Director, Press & Information, Dr. Akande Festus. According to the statement, the
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has berated the recent Supreme Court Judgement which upheld Bola Tinubu’s election victory, bringing to an end a legal challenge brought by his two main rivals, who argued that his victory was marred by irregularities. This trails the group’s recent assertion that the federal government must restructure the country and enthrone
The retiring justice also said the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, had enormous powers and such powers must be reduced to prevent abuse of office. A retiring justice of the Supreme Court, Musa Dattijo Muhammad, has said that the seven-man panel that dismissed all the appeals that sought to
The Labour Party has issued an official report by the National chairman of the party, Julius Abure after the judgement by the Supreme Court earlier today. According to the Labour Party, Nigeria is nosediving towards dictatorship as the Judiciary has been captured. See statements below : Labour Party watched as the scared fabric of justice and
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has described the dismissal of the petitions filed by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as a mockery of the justice system of Nigeria. HURIWA in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade