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Fair Play Africa: Abuja Blast Update : Abuja Blast Update Two suspected terrorists who detonated improvised explosive device at a crowded shopping plaza within the Wuse II Di...

Abuja Blast Update Two suspected terrorists who detonated improvised explosive device at a crowded shopping plaza within the Wuse II District of the Abuja metropolis were shot at by personnel of the Guards Brigade on patrol duty in the area, killing one of the suspected bombers in the process and arresting the other. The suspected terrorists stormed the busy shopping mall on a power bike and planted an Improvised Explosive Device  by the entrance of the mall which exploded killing 21 persons and leaving another 17 seriously injured. Many vehicles were also damaged with windshield blown away from other sets of vehicles within the vicinity of the blast. The suspected terrorists  were reported to have attempted to flee the scene of the incident before they ran into the security operatives on patrol duty within the area who fired shots at them and killing one of the suspected bombers in the process and arresting the other. A bag containing IEDs was also ...

Fair Play Africa: Cement Grade Battle: Court Retains Order Against S... : Justice A. R Mohammed of a federal high court siting in Abuja on Tuesday maintained its earlier position on the ongoing cement grading lega...

Justice A. R Mohammed of a federal high court siting in Abuja on Tuesday maintained its earlier position on the ongoing cement grading legal battle between the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment on one side and Larfarge Cement WAPCO on the other. The court insisted that there is need for the government standard agency and the Trade and Investment ministry to explain the rationale behind the recently introduced cement grading which they now want cement manufacturers in the country to comply with. Justice Mohammed refused an applications brought by SON and the ministry for an order setting aside the Court's earlier order where the court directed  them to come and show cause why they should not be restrained from enforcing the new cement grade, as requested by Lafarge in an ex-parte application.  By maintaining its position on the issue, SON and the Trade and Investment minister, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, are sti...

Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of a federal high court siting in Abuja on Monday adjourned to July 10th to hear the suit instituted by former managing director of defunct Oceanic Bank International Plc. Mrs Cicilia Ibru, where she's asking the court to compel the federal government to implement her plea bargain as specified in the agreement she signed with the government. Mrs. Ibru instituted the suit through her lawyer, Dr. Ted Iseghohi - Edwards, on behalf of herself and the Ibru group against the Attorney General and Minister of Justice and the Asset Management Corporation, Amcon, over an alleged breach by federal government in the implementation of the terms of agreement she entered as part of her plea bargain in 2010. Mrs. Ibru is asking the court to make a declaration that the plea bargain and settlement agreement that she entered with the federal government in 2010 is a valid and enforceable agreement between the parties and more particularly valid against the federal gove...

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in Ekiti state, southwest Nigeria, the federal government has slammed a three counts charge bordering on alleged terrorist activities against 12 All Progressive Congress, APC, supporters including a serving commissioner under Governor Kayode Fayemi who is gunning for a second term of office. Following the recent violent clash by party supporters in Ekiti, during which a man identified as Peter Akin was killed with many vehicles and properties destroyed, the federal government on filed the three counts terrorism charge against Mr. Funminiyi Afuye, the commissioner for Integration and Inter-Governmental Affairs alongside eleven others before a federal high court in Abuja. The others charged alongside the commissioner are Idowu Aladejebi (68 years), Afuye Jide (30), Anisulowo Kayode (46), Azeez Suleiman (19), Ajayi Idowu (18), Babadi Ajayi (35), Abiodun Omoniyi (68), Oyedapo Olaoluwa (29), Sunday Olalere (27), Dapo David ...

A federal high court siting in Abuja on Monday refused the request of Mr. Charles Okah, suspected mastermind of the 2010 Independent Day bomb blasts which rocked Nigeria's federal capital city, Abuja, for a private physician to examine him with a view to determining if he is medically fit to stand trial. Mr. Okah's request followed the submission of a panel of doctors who examined him on the orders of the court and recommended that he is fit to stand his trial. The suspected bomber insisted that he is not fit for trial and accused the doctors of bias noting that since the federal government paid for the examination, that the doctors obviously submitted a favourable report to satisfy the government and therefore requested to be allowed to recommend his own private doctor whose services would be paid by his family, to examine him and see if he is fit for trial. He  urged the court to grant him leave to be examined by an independent private medical practitioner to be appointed and...

Scheduled trial of one of the masterminds of  the 14th April bomb blasts which rocked a Bus terminal at Nyanya in Abuja metropolis, before a federal high court  was aborted owing to a seeming internal wranglings within the security agencies over which of the agencies will prosecute the suspected bomber. The suspect, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, aged 29, was alleged to have been the brain behind the plot and execution of the dastardly act where lives of hundreds of Nigerians were lost before eloped to Sudan where he was later arrested with the assistance of the Interpol. According to three counts charge filed on behalf of the Inspector General of Police by DSP Oloye Torugbene, the suspected terrorist was alleged to have conspired with others said to be at large, to commit an act of terrorism by detonating improvised explosive devices at Nyanya motor park which resulted in the death of 75 persons and injuring over a hundred other persons. The act is said to be punishable under section 1...

Alleged kidnappers of a senior advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome and Delta Commissioner for Higher Education, Professor Hope Eghagha, among others were arraigned before a federal high court siting in Abuja on. Monday. The suspected kidnapers, Kelvin Oniarah Eziegbe, Frank Azuekor and Micheal Omonigho were accused of being behind series of kidnap and terrorism cases in the Edo-Delta states axis between 2010 and 2013. The suspects who allegedly collected the sum of N75 from as ransom for the release of the lawyer and the commissioner were also charged with killing of five policemen and two prison officials They were also said to have been involved in the kidnap of Attanasius Ugbome and his friend, Emmanuel Maka Omorogbe, and the According to the 13-count charge on which the three were arraigned, they were said to have made about N75million from Ozekhome, Eghagha, Ugbome and Omorogbe before they were released. They allegedly compelled Ozekhome to pay N40m (paid in US Dollars), whil...

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Minster of Trade and Investment, Dr. Segun Aganga and the Standard Organisation of Nigeria to appear in court on 10th June, to show cause why they should not be restrained from enforcing their new cement standard against one of Nigeria's cement manufacturing companies, Lafarge Cement WAPCO.  The company had approached the court through an exparte application seeking to stop the standard organization from enforcing the new standard in cement production upon it. The company's lawyer, Prof. Taiwo Osipitan, a senior advocate of Nigeria, urged the court to restrain the defendants from enforcing the new cement standard and insisted that they had no power to force the company to manufacture according to the new standard because due process was not followed in its introduction. He contended that the license which Lafarge Cement WAPCO obtained was for the manufacturing of the former ...

Following growing concern over the non appointment of a substantive Chief Judge or Acting Chief Judge in Rivers state which has continued to impact negatively on the administration of justice in the state, the National Judicial Council, NJC, on Tuesday, exercised its constitutional powers by directing the most senior Judge in the High Court of Justice of Rivers state Judiciary to perform the functions of assigning cases to all the Judges of the court and also carry out other related administrative duties. In a press release signed by NJC's Acting Director (Information). Mr. Soji Oye, and made available to newsmen in Abuja, the Council noted that the current state of affairs in the Rivers State Judiciary over the  non-appointment of a substantive Chief Judge or Acting Chief Judge has a negative consequences on the general administration of justice, particularly vis-à-vis assignment of cases and other related administrative duties in both the High Court of Justice and Customary Court...

Frontline activists campaigning for the rescue of the over 200 abducted Chibok school girls under the platform of #BringBackOurGirls, on Tuesday dragged the FCT Police Commissioner before a federal high court in Abuja following the ban announced by the police commissioner of all protests in connection with the abducted school girls. In the suit filed on behalf of the activists by Mr. Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria, they want the court to make an order for the enforcement of their fundamental human right to freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association guaranteed under section 38, 39 and 40 of the Nigerian constitution and Articles 8, 10 and 11 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004. The activists who are plaintiffs in the matter alongside former education minister, Obiageli Ezekwesili, are Hadiza Bala Usman, Samuel Yaga, Rebecca Samuel Yaga, Sarah Ishaya...