The Supreme Court on Wednesday in Abuja affirmed the six years imprisonment imposed on a former Federal Director of Pensions (FDP,) Mr John Yakubu Yusuf
The Supreme Court of Nigeria will on Thursday, October 7, in Abuja determine the fate of a former Federal Director of Pensions (FDP) Mr John Yakubu Yusuf,
The recent conviction of Professor Peter Ogban for electoral offences that was described as a landmark decision in the nation’s jurisprudence, was last week made a mockery courtesy of a controversial bail pending appeal aimed at setting him free, Davidson Iriekpen writes
Barely four months after Justice Augustine Odokwo of the Akwa Ibom State High Court was commended for a landmark decision convicting Professor Peter Ogban for electoral fraud, he is on the street walking as a free man courtesy of a N10million bail pending appeal granted him last week by another judge.
Justice Justice Pius Idiong while ruling on the bail application filed by the convict, said the bail conditions would include a surety in like sum who must reside and have properties within the jurisdiction of the court. Other conditions include the presentation of Certificate of Occupancy signed by the state governor and two passport photographs each of the applicant and surety to the Registrar of the court.
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Bala Mohammed school of anarchism and disunity
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By Owei Lakemfa
THE Nigerian state has never been as divided and besieged in its 107-year Amalgamation, as it is witnessing today. The 1966-67 crises which led to the three-year Civil War was roughly between two parts of the country. In the present crises, all parts of the country are in turmoil. The North East is besieged by the Boko Haram and Islamic State terrorists, the North-West by marauding bandits who have seized territories, and the North Central by terrorists and bandits, many of them, foreigners.
The southern part of the country while having issues of criminality, cultism, and ethno-nationalism, has the general challenge of kidnapping and banditry perpetuated mainly by men identified as criminal elements of Fulani ancestry from within and outside the country who camouflage as herdsmen.