COURT GRANTS SEN. SANI SHEHU BAIL

An Abuja court has granted Senator Shehu Sani bail. He was arraigned today by the EFCC for alleged bribery.

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BREAKING..... MARYAM SANDA TO DIE BY HANGING OVER MURDER OF HUSBAND

An FCT High Court on Monday convicted Maryam Sanda, the woman who allegedly stabbed her husband to death in Abuja. Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, convicted her on circumstantial evidence. NAN reports that the victim, Bilyaminu, was the son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello. The killing was premeditated, the police said. The police accused Sanda of stabbing her husband with a broken bottle at about 3:50 a.m. Nov. 18, 2017 The police also accused Maimuna Aliyu, Sanda’s mother; Aliyu, her brother, and Sadiya Aminu, her housemaid, of tampering with evidence by cleaning the blood and other proofs from the crime scene, but charges were later dropped. NAN

BREAKING! MERCY IS BBNAIJA 2019 WINNER

Mercy has won the BBNaija TV show for 2019.

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BREAKING.... ROCHAS ARRESTED BY EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested the immediate past Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, his wife, Nkechi Okorocha, Gerald Okorocha and Okey Okorocha.

The EFCC which stormed Ogboko also saw the commission sealing the ex-governor’s Eastern Palm University, Ogboko.

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BREAKING ......! SUPREME COURT STOPS ALL ZAMFARA APC ELECTION WINNERS, DECLARES PDP CANDIDATES WINNERS.

The Supreme Court has voided the victory of the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State in the last general elections.

Those affected are candidates for the governorship, National and state assemblies’ elections held on February 23 and March 11, 2019.

A five-man panel of the Supreme Court, in a unanimous judgment on Friday, held that the APC in Zamfara State did not conduct valid primaries from which its candidates emerged.

After holding that the APC had no valid candidates for the elections, the panel, led by Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, declared that the first runner-ups, who scored the second highest votes and the required spread are winners.

Candidates of the APC had won all the seats contested, including outgoing Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, who won a Senatorial seat,with candidates of the PDP emerging first runner-ups in most cases.

In the lead judgment by Justice Paul Galumje, the court upheld the earlier judgment by the Court of Appeal in Sokoto and dismiss the three appeal the affected APC candidates filed.

Justice Galumje said, since the APC had no valid candidates, having not conducted valid primaries, the votes recorded by its candidates are wasted votes.

BREAKING! CCT SACKS ONNOGHEN AS CJN ORDERS FORFEITURE OF ALL UNDECLARED MONIES AND ASSETS

The Code of Conduct Tribunal has convicted the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen of breach of Code of Conduct for Public Officers.

Reading the lead judgment, the tribunal chairman, Danladi Umar, ordered the immediate removal of Onnoghen from office as the CJN, Chairman of the National Judicial Council and the Chairman of the Federal Judicial Service Commission.

The tribunal also ordered the forfeiture of the five accounts which defendant failed to declare as part of his assets.

The tribunal also ordered the furfeiture of the money in the five accounts which Onnoghen allegedly failed to declare, to the Federal Goverment.

BREAKING: SUSPENDED CJN ONNOGHEN RESIGNS

Walter Onnoghen has resigned as the chief justice of Nigeria “with immediate effect”.

He turned in his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday evening, April 4, 2019, a day after the National Judicial Council (NJC) recommended that he be compulsorily retired for misconduct.

By virtue of section 306 of the 1999 constitution, his resignation takes immediate effect.

Section 306 says “(1) Save as otherwise provided in this section, any person who is appointed, elected or otherwise selected to any office established by this Constitution may resign from that office by writing under his hand addressed to the authority or person by whom he was appointed, elected or selected. (2) The resignation of any person from any office established by this Constitution shall take effect when the writing signifying the resignation is received by the authority or person to whom it is addressed or by any person authorised by that authority or person to receive it.”

The resignation, TheCable understands, was the “best possible option” for Onnoghen under the current circumstance.

It will also save Buhari from having to get two-thirds majority of the senate to confirm Onnoghen’s retirement as stipulated in Section 292 (1) of the 1999 constitution which says a “judicial officer shall not be removed from his office or appointment before his age of retirement except in the following circumstances – (a) in the case of – (i) Chief Justice of Nigeria… by the President acting on an address supported by two-thirds majority of the Senate.”

Buhari may not be able to muster the needed majority