Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu awarded the cost on account of his failure to appear in court in the ongoing trial without genuine reason, an action the court deemed as affecting the pace of hearing the matter.
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The news about Watila’s death filtered out at the Abuja Division of the FHC early in the morning as court workers, lawyers and litigants came in for the day’s business.
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, who turned down the request of the AGF’s counsel, Kayode Alilu, adjourned the matter until December 10 and December 11 for trial continuation.
The Department of State Services on Wednesday reportedly arrested Olawale Bakare and six other #RevolutionNow protesters wearing orange-coloured caps around Olaiya area of Osogbo, the Osun State capital
Justice Inyang Ekwo adjourned the matters after the regularisation of processes filed by parties in the suits
Sowore and Bakare, however, pleaded not guilty to the amended two-count charge brought against them by the office of the Attorney General for the Federation and Minister of Justice
Justice Ojukwu gave the order after Aminu Alilu, counsel to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, sought for an adjournment to enable him serve the defendants the amended charges
The Department of State Services had on Friday rearrested Sowore, who has been in detention for over four months, in the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja
It said this in reaction to the arrest of the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare, inside the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, on Friday
The operatives stormed the court, presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, seeking to arrest Sowore and his co-traveller, Olawale Bakare, have been in the custody of the DSS for more than four months over the planned #RevolutionNow.
Armed operatives of the Department of State Services stormed the courtroom, causing pandemonium and physically assaulting Sowore.
The Eagle online reports that Sowore and Bakare were released from the DSS detention on Thursday night after several court orders to release them went unheeded
The group made the declaration in a statement on Wednesday.
There was a mild drama at Court 7, Federal High Court, Abuja, as application by the Department of State Services counsel, Hassan Liman, to take witnesses in the ongoing trial of Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, in camera failed.
Sowore, alongside Olawale Bakare, is charged by the DSS with treasonable felony, money laundering, among others.
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday reviewed the bail conditions earlier granted to Omoleye Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow movement and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare.
SERAP said: “Across the country, state governors and federal government are charging citizens, mostly journalists, bloggers and activists, with serious crimes such as ‘treason’, ‘treasonable felony’ or bogus crime of ‘insulting public officials’, simply for exercising their human rights.”
The charges against Sowore, also the presidential candidate of African Action Congress for the February 23, 2019 presidential election, were filed on Friday by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice