Tag Archives: Appeal Court

An Appeal court has halted the  arrest order on INEC chairman Mahmoud Yakubu. A federal high Court had last week ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to arrest the INEC chairman and produce him in court on August 14 to face contempt charge for violating its order. The Justice Stephen Pam-led Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, had ruled that …

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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the suit filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 gubernatorial election in Kwara State, Senator Simeon Ajibola challenging the emergence of Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed as the governor of the State. A three-man panel of justices of the appellate court led by Justice Peter Ige in …

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While the people and government of Bayelsa State still rejoice after the Appeal Court in Abuja upheld the re-election of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, another bundle of joy was delivered to the state. Barely 24 hours after the Appeal Court judgment, first lady of the oil-rich state, Dr. Rachael Dickson, has reportedly been delivered of a set of quadruplets in faraway …

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