Category: Legal

Kogi Assembly Mulls Contempt Charge Against House of Reps

The Kogi House of Assembly on Thursday in Lokoja resolved to file contempt charges against the leadership of the House of Representatives for disobeying a subsisting...

Court Remands Two Suspected Kidnappers in Kogi

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Lokoja has yesterday remanded a Fulani herdsman, Gambo Haruna, and a farmer, Hussaini Yahaya, in State Security Service (SSS)...

NBA Calls for Financial Autonomy for Kogi Judiciary

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Lokoja branch, has called on the Kogi Government to grant financial autonomy to the State’s judiciary in line with Section 121(3)...

Boko Haram: Absence of Lead Counsel Stalls KSU Lecturer’s Trial

The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday fixed March 16 for the hearing of alleged terrorism charge against Nazeef Yunus, a lecturer of the Kogi State University. The...

Labour Party Protests Exclusion from Kogi Senate Rerun

Labour Party (LP) has protested its exclusion from the February 20 Senatorial rerun election in Kogi East zone.     National chairman of the party, Alhaji...

Past Political Appointees To Drag Gov Yahaya Bello To Court

Another legal battle is set to begin for Kogi State Governor, Alh Yahaya Bello, as past political appointees in the immediate past administration of Capt Idris Wada, are...

Abu Railway, Ohiare and Ex-Speaker Sue INEC Over Exclusion from Re-run

Three members of the National Assembly from Kogi State: Senator Abdulrahman Abubakar, Senator Mohammed Abdulsalami Ohiare and Abdullahi Bello, have taken the Independent...

Yahaya Bello’s Nomination is Invalid, DPC Gov Candidate Tells Court

The gubernatorial candidate of Democratic People’s Congress, DPC, Mr Philip Koleola, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja to declare the nomination of...

Court Rejects Substituted Service on Faleke

Justice Abdulazeez Anka of the Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday refused to grant an application seeking to service processes by substituted means on the lawmaker...

Kogi Deputy Gov Nomination Foreshadows More Illegalities by Olarinde Yesufu Esq

Kogi State found itself on the brink of history on January 27, when Alhaji Yahaya Bello was sworn in as its fourth governor under a democratic dispensation. His...