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Fair Play Africa: Court Slams $75,000 USD On Pedophile : A Nigerian court has awarded N15 million, about  ($75,000 USD)  against an ex policeman who defiled an 11 year old Junior Secondary School ...

A Nigerian court has awarded N15 million, about  ($75,000 USD)  against an ex policeman who defiled an 11 year old Junior Secondary School boy. The court was told that the ex cop, Corporal John Unegbu, sometimes in September 2013 at Bwari, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory,  had unlawful carnal knowledge by defiling the boy whose names are withheld, which led to the boy having serious stomach aches and discharge of whitish fluid from his anus. Determined to bring the pedophile to justice, the ex cop who had been tried and dismissed by his employers- the Nigeria Police Force, was dragged before Justice Folashade Ojo of the Abuja High Court by an Abuja based Human Rights activist, Ms Esther Uzoma,  last year, for the enforcement of the fundamental rights of the  boy. She urged the court to declare that the unlawful carnal knowledge , indecent assault and defilement of the tender and vulnerable 11 year old through the anus by...

Fair Play Africa: Eligibility: Court Shifts Suit Against Buhari To A... : A federal high court siting in Abuja on Wednesday refused applications brought before it by two persons seeking to be joined in the suits i...

A federal high court siting in Abuja on Wednesday refused applications brought before it by two persons seeking to be joined in the suits instituted against the Presidential candidate of the All Progresive Congress, APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, challenging his eligibility to contest the forthcoming presidential election on account of his alleged non possession of requisite educational qualification. In refusing the joinder application, the trial judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, noted that the duo have no business being parties in the suit, more so as defendants as they had applied. The judge categorically described the duo as meddlesome busy bodies who have no reason whatsoever to being parties. The persons, Mr. Ebun Adegoruwa and Chukwuma Ochu, had approached the court seeking to be joined in the suit as defendants but their application was opposed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which insisted through their lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, that the duo were meddlesome interl...

Fair Play Africa: Court Threatens To Jail YDP Officials : Court Threatens To Jail YDP Officials A federal court in Abuja on Monday threatened to jail officials of the newly registered political...

Court Threatens To Jail YDP Officials A federal court in Abuja on Monday threatened to jail officials of the newly registered political party, Youth Democratic Party, YDP, for misrepresenting a judgment delivered by the court earlier in the month in the suit instituted by the party in pursuit of its registration by the Independent National Election Commission, INEC. The court presided by Justice Ahmed Mohammed had  on 4th March  ordered the electoral umpire to register the party having complied with the requirements for its registration but the party officials at a press conference held in Abuja, informed the media that the court had also ordered that it be allowed to participate in the forthcoming elections. The court issued a 24 hour ultimatum to the officials of the Youth Democratic to address to convoke a press conference to retract their misrepresentation of the judgment or risk being sent to jail. The angry judge further ordered the party officials...

Fair Play Africa: Nyanya Blast: Suspect Arraigned And Remanded : Six persons suspected to have masterminded and executed the April 14th, 2014 bloody bomb blasts at a well populated bus terminal in Nyanya,...

Six persons suspected to have masterminded and executed the April 14th, 2014 bloody bomb blasts at a well populated bus terminal in Nyanya, a suburb within Nigeria's federal capital city, Abuja, have been further remanded at the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, by a federal court despite stiff opposition by the suspects' lawyers.  The accused persons ; Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, Akhmad Rufai Abubakar (aka Abu Ibrahim/Maitirare), Mohammed Sani Ishaq, Ya’u Saidu (aka Kofar Rama), Anas Isah, Adamu Yusuf and Nasiru Abubakar, were formally arraigned on an eight count charge before the court on Friday after series of postponements. They all denied any involvement in the dastardly act and pleaded not guilty. They were accused by Nigerian government of conspiracy, engaging in act of terrorism, belonging to Boko Haram, an outlawed group and refusal to disclose to security agencies, information that would have help prevented act of terrorism. The suspect...

Fair Play Africa: 2015: Court of Appeal Clears Jonathan To Contest P... : The Court of Appeal siting in Abuja on Tuesday held that President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to participate in the forthcoming Presiden...

The Court of Appeal siting in Abuja on Tuesday held that President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to participate in the forthcoming Presidential election for a chance to secure a second term of office as Nigeria's President. The court dismissed an appeal brought before it by a chieftain of the President's party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging his eligibility to contest the now rescheduled  28 March  Presidential election. In a unanimous judgment this evening, the appellate court held that the President is qualified to seek for another term of office having not participated in the two previous elections for the office as prescribed by law. The presiding Justice Abubakar Yahaya who delivered the lead judgment noted that the oath of office taken by Jonathan on May 6, 2010 to complete the tenure of late President Umaru Musa Yar Adua was not on account of election required by law but by operations of the constitution. In specific terms, the court  held that Jon...

Embattled Senator Ayogu Eze who has been crying foul over his failure to clinch the gubernatorial ticket of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the Enugu state Governorship has been floored at a federal high court where he's challenging the emergence of Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as the governorship candidate of the party. Eze had dragged the party, its National Chairman, Mr. Adamu Mu'azu, INEC and Ugwuanyi before the court over the delegates list with which the party's primary was conducted. Both Eze and Ugwuanyi had laid claim to the governorship ticket of the party in having emerged from two parallel primary elections that was held last December. In its decision on Monday, ‎the court presided by Justice Evoh Stephen Chukwu, noted that from the averrments made in the proceedings, that it was only one governorship primary election that was conducted in Enugu state  on December 8  under the watchful eyes of the national officers of the PDP. ...