Justice Walter Onnoghen delivered the unanimous judgment of the five justices
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Speaking on a live interview session on Television Continental, the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode said the renewed enforcement is in line with Section One of the Lagos State Street Trading and Illegal Market Prohibition Law 2003, which restricts street trading and hawking in the metropolis
Ogah was arraigned alongside three others by the Police before a Magistrate Court in Lagos on July 16
The Independent National Electoral Commission had on Thursday issued Ogah a Certificate of Return, thus withdrawing the one that was earlier issued to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and paved the way for the swearing-in of Ogah
The governor said his government would not condone any act of criminality or defend anyone who had a hand in fraud
The proof service showed that INEC received the two important documents and it was signed for by Saleh N. Ibrahim, a Senior Clerical Officer in the Legal Services Department of the Commission’s Headquarters, Abuja
Explaining the rationale behind issuing the Certificate of Return to Ogah, the INEC National Commissioner in charge of the South East, Ambassador Lawrence Nwuruku, said the Commission only reacted to the pronouncement of Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, which nullified Ikpeazu’s election
“It is ordered that an order of injunction is hereby made restraining the 2nd defendant (INEC) from issuing a certificate of return to the 1st defendant (Ogah) while the claimant (Ikpeazu) remains in office in accordance with section 143 (1) & (2) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) and pending the determination of the motion on notice
Indications that the distribution of the 72 trailer loads of grains delivered a forthnight ago by the Federal Government, through the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, may have been marred by scandal surfaced when the District Head of Gulak, Bello Hijadi Black, revealed that the “whole of Madagali got only 250 bags of grains”
The Federal Government had dragged the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki; his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu; the outgoing Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa; and the Deputy Clerk, Ben Efeturi, to the FCT High Court over alleged forgery of Rules book
Count 4 of the charge reads: “That you, Ahmadu Umaru (Alias Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri) and Mayim Construction and Properties Limited on or about the 9th October 2014 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did indirectly disguise the origin of the aggregate sum of N550,000,000 (Five Hundred and Fifty Million naira) through a term loan of twelve months purportedly granted to you by Ecobank Plc for the acquisition of a tea plantation farm from Nigeria Agricultural Bank in Taraba State which loan you repaid within three months as acting Governor of Adamawa State from sum which you know form part of proceeds of unlawful act to wit: corruption and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2)(a) of the Money laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) and (4) of the same Act
He would be laughing now. At the heart of the anger that triggered the “Leave” vote last week is the futile attempt, even after many decades, by the British to see themselves as Europeans. Immigration is probably the next big issue. A flood of immigration, especially from EU countries, saw 185,000 net EU citizens move into the UK in 2015 alone, with over 40 per cent of them citing jobs as the main reason.
In a statement by its General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Yakubu Dati, FAAN said: “The management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria is constrained to advise all airport users, especially passengers and airline operators, to be security conscious at airports, following the spate of recent security breaches, including bomb blasts, at some airports around the world
Ikpeazu in a statement he personally signed on Thursday, urged the people of the State to remain calm
The Certificate of Return was issued to Ogah on Thursday despite the appeal filed by the incumbent, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu
Mark has been in the Senate since the return of Nigeria to democratic rule in 1999
Nwokocha-Ahaiwe had accused Buhari of not having the basic West African School Certificate qualification as stipulated by law
Mr. Babachir Lawal should tell us how reasonable it is to conclude that when the President of Nigeria and the Vice President are being jointly tried in a suit whose outcome can remove them from office, it is not the Buhari Government that is being targeted
The commission’s Director of Public Affairs, Osita Nwaja, gave the looters the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Wednesday
Madueke, a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party, also at one time served as the Minister of Transport for the country