• Obaseki swears in eight High Court judges, pledges more support to judiciary
A Federal High Court in Benin City presided by Justice Adefunmilola Demi-Ajayi, yesterday, dismissed a suit filed by the African Action Congress (AAC) seeking to nullify the September 19, 2020 Edo State governorship election.
The plaintiffs approached the court over claims that the defendants, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) excluded the names of their candidates prior to the poll.
Delivering the judgment, the court held that although it was within the plaintiffs’ rights to file their applications within 14 days of publishing the names of governorship candidates by the defendants, it maintained that their counsel was complacent.
Edo to relocate Appeal, Federal high court from Ikpoba hills to GRA
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By Gabriel Enogholase, Benin
Edo State government has set in motion plans to relocate both the Federal Court and the Benin Division of the Court of Appeal from their present locations from Ikpoba Hills to Aiguobasimwin Street in the Government Reservation Area (GRA).
Vanguard checks indicated that the plan to relocate both Courts was as a result of the perennial flooding of their premises.
This, it was discovered has affected the dispensation of justice as members of the bench, bar and litigants had to wade through the flood to access the courts.
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