The conviction of the trio in Appeal No. SC/CR/592/2020 brings to a close the protracted legal battle spanning over a decade.
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Now Wike celebrates the discombobulating of the opposition, on whose side he should naturally be as a front-row leader of the PDP.
The senior lawyer made his position known in a statement he shared on Friday on his X handle at: @sanjsokutepa
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has updated its website to reinstate the names of a former Senate President David…
The party has splintered into rival groups offering conflicting interpretations of the judgement and using the same verdict to press opposing claims to control, further fracturing the party’s top structure.
The National Convention in Ibadan produced the Tanimu Turaki (SAN) led factional national executives of the party.
The appeal was brought by the Kabiru Tanimu Turaki-led faction, challenging earlier court rulings that nullified the convention.
Mark, a former President of the Senate, is seeking an order to stay the execution of the March 12 judgment of the Court of Appeal.
Wike made the remarks on Friday night after inspecting the Velodrome of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja.
The cases under consideration are not dusty precedents; they are living monuments, each a philosophical inquiry into the soul of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and how our Republic has feared..
Among other orders, they requested that the university allocates a parcel of land for Muslim students to worship.
In a unanimous decision, a five-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice Inyang Okoro, set aside the judgment of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, which had discharged the defendants after striking out the charge against them.
The Commission, through its team of lawyers, sought to set aside the October 17 judgement of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which upheld an order that compelled it to include SDP candidates in by-elections that were conducted across 12 states of the federation.
The President, who spoke at the 14th APC National Caucus meeting at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja, said there would not be autonomy to councils without a funded mandate.
Significantly, however, the court did not shy away from addressing the substantive constitutional questions raised by the plaintiffs.
Justice Tanko, who held sway as the CJN from 2019 until his abrupt resignation in 2022, reportedly died in a hospital in Saudi Arabia in the early hours of Tuesday at the age of 71.
Our judges must learn to speak with clarity and certainty. It is important they do not speak with both sides of the mouth.
The states, which were controlled by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) through their respective attorneys-general, queried what they termed President Bola Tinubu’s unconstitutional actions in Rivers State.
Given previous rulings, the judgment by the Supreme Court marks a significant victory for Fidelity Bank in a long-running dispute.
This came after President Bola Tinubu reduced Sanda’s sentence to 12 years imprisonment on compassionate grounds