El-Rufai probe: Your days are numbered, Lukman slams Kaduna Gov
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The immediate-past National Vice Chairman, North-west, of the All Progressives Congress APC, Salihu Lukman, has told Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna state that his days in office are numbered, as he would be voted out alongside President Bola Tinubu in the next three years.
Lukman berated the governor for waging war against his predecessor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, saying the governor was fighting a proxy war for the presidency.
The former Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum PGF warned the Governor that the campaign to defeat APC and President Asiwaju Tinubu has just started and it will take root in Kaduna State.
In a letter titled “Issues of Politics and Governance in Kaduna: The Truth”, dated 13 June 2024 and copied to Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Ramalan Yero, Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, Mal. B. A. Law-al, Hon. Garba Datti, Sen. Suleiman Hunkuyi, Alh. Yusuf Mairago, Alh. Lawal Samaila Yakawad, Alh. Bashir Abubakar Alhaji and Mal. Mohammed Sani Dattijo, Lukman said Governor Uba Sani was setting a precedence that will eventually hurt him.
BREAKING: Court upholds deposed Emir’s rights, awards N10m against Kano govt
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A Federal High Court in Kano on Friday upheld the rights of movement and freedom to civil liberty of the deposed Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero.
The court also asked the Kano State Government to pay N10m damages to the 15th Emir.
In his judgment, the Presiding Judge of the Federal High Court 3, Justice Simon Amobeda, upheld the applicant counsel’s withdrawal of reliefs Order 1-2 on the grounds that they have the right by the rules of law to do so and as such they are no longer part of the case.
He also hinted that he was duty-bound to resolve the issues of jurisdiction of the court to determine the case before he delved into the main matter of the case.
Appeal Court orders status quo in Rivers Assembly
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PORT HARCOURT: A Court of Appeal Holden in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has ordered the parties involved in the ongoing House of Assembly crisis in the state to maintain status quo.
The Court of Appeal gave the order in a suit marked CA/PH/198/2024 instituted by Hon. Martin Chike Amaewhule & 24 others (Appellants) against Rt Hon. Victor Oko-Jumbo and five others (Defendants).
Amaewhule and others had approached the apex court seeking to vacate the Interlocutory Injunction of a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt which empowered Oko-Jumbo to keep on with the leadership of the state assembly.
Justice Charles Wali of the State High court had also ordered Amaewhule and 24 others to stop parading as speaker and lawmakers in the legislative arm of the state.
The Court also held that all the laws made by Amaewhule and others were in nullity untill the determination of the matter.
FG urged to secure release of detained Nigerian professors in Cameroon
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A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon Abdul Oroh, again reiterated the call on President Bola Tinubu-led federal government to employ diplomatic and political measures to ensure the release of Professors in some Nigerian universities and other professionals detained in Cameroon.
This just as another lawyer to the detainees, Joseph Fru said their clients have been languishing in Cameroonian prisons for over five years, insisting they are law-abiding citizens, not criminals.
Oroh a lawyer at FRULAW Chambers: Barristers, Solicitors, Public Notaries of the Cameroon Bar Association which tendered a petition currently before the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions made this emphasis while addressing journalists in Abuja.
The detainee’s lawyers bemoaned the absence of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Cameroonian High Commissioner, the UNHCR Coordinator, the Attorney-General of the Federation, and representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a meeting of the House Committee on Tuesday, June 11, 2024.