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Fair Play Africa: Gross Misconduct: NJC Sacks Two Judges, Cautions T... : The National Judicial Council, NJC, the apex disciplinary body for the Nigerian judiciary, under the leadership of the Chief Justice of Nig...

The National Judicial Council, NJC, the apex disciplinary body for the Nigerian judiciary, under the leadership of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, has sacked two judges for gross misconduct. The judges are, Justice Gladys K. Olotu of a Federal High Court in Abuja and Justice U. A Inyang of the FCT High Court, also in Abuja. The NJC recommended for their compulsory retirement from office.                  Justice Ufot Inyang.   T he Council observed that following allegations contained in a petition against Justice Olotu, that it found that she failed to deliver Judgment in a case at the appropriate time only to deliver it eighteen months after the adoption of final address by all the counsel in the suit. This is contrary to the constitutional provisions that judgments should be delivered within a period of 90 days. "The Hon. Judge admitted before the Fact Finding Committee of the Coun...

Suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has dragged President Goodluck Jonathan before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja over his suspension from office. The ousted apex bank boss is urging the court to restrain the President, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police from giving effect to his purported suspension from office as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, pending the determination of his suit. He also wants the court to make an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the defendants from obstructing,disturbing, stopping or preventing him from in any manner whatsoever from performing the functions of his office as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and enjoying in full, the statutory powers and privileges attached to the office of the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria. In the suit filed on behalf of the ousted CBN boss by his lawyers led by Chief Kola Awodein, a senior advocate o...

Defected PDP  Governors on Wednesday stalled the hearing of a suit instituted by the crisis ridden party where the party is seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare the defected governors offices vacant. The governors are Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa state, Aliyu Wamako of Sokoto state, Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano state and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara state. The assembled team of senior advocates of Nigeria who represented the governors who had decamped to the opposition All Progresive Congress, APC, challenged the competence of the purported service of the originating summons on their clients noting that the service which is a fundamental issue in legal practice, defective as they were served at a location not specified in an earlier directive issued by the court for the substituted service of court processes on the affected governors. Attempts by a team of another set of senior advocates of Nigeria, le...

Trial of suspected Independence Day Bomber,  Mr. Charles Okah was stalled Wednesday following a directive by the court for a team of psychiatric doctors to analyz the suspect's mental state to determine if he is fit to face his trial.  Further hearing was fixed for 2nd of April.