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DSS have arraigned two staff of INEC, Monday Ifiesimama and Beesor Sorle before a Chief Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt for selling PVCs.

INEC does not intend to postpone any of the elections as a result of court orders coming close to election schedules, the Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said.

A Federal High Court in Lagos has threatened to arrest former defence minister Musiliu Obanikoro for refusing to testify against Ayodele Fayose in court

Mr Ferdinand Orbih (SAN), the counsel to PDP in the political matter involving APC and INEC in Rivers, has withdrawn his legal services to the party.

An Ikeja High Court sentenced to death, Saheed Arogundade, Chairman, NURTW, Boundary/Aiyetoro Unit, Lagos State, for the murder of policeman, Gbenga Oladipupo.

Justice Muslim Hassan of Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has released the international passport of Olajumoke Akinjide, an ex-Minister of State for the FCT

Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka, who is the convener of the Citizens’ Forum, in this piece titled: “Trivialise corruption, neutralise justice”, argues that the absence of justice in a society makes its citizens resort to self-help.

A prosecutors witness has stalled the N9.7 billion fraud suit against Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Umar Dikko. Trial has been adjourned to February 27, 2019.

N1.4bn: NBA President Paul Usoro will be re-arraigned on February 14 by anti-graft agency EFCC for N1.4 billion money laundering carried out for Akwa Ibom govt

Mr Robert Azibaola, cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has explained that $40 million received from National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, was judiciously used, saying 10,000 militants were beneficiaries.