By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu has dismissed the suit instituted by Victoria Otanya Odey seeking, among other prayers, the nullification of the primaries that produced Honorable Regina Anyogo as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the Yala 1 State constituency
By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu on Monday dismissed a suit seeking the replacement of Senator Bassey Otu with Senator John Owan-Enoh as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the 2023 general elections. Senator Owan-Enoh on June 8, 2022, filed an
By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu has fixed October 24, 2022, for the judgment on a suit seeking to disqualify Senator Bassey Otu as the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 general elections. The date was fixed following the
By Jonathan Ugbal Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Calabar division of the Federal High Court has struck out an application to subpoena a staff of the West African Examinations Council, WAEC to testify in a suit challenging the qualifications of a former lawmaker, Senator Bassey Otu as the Guber candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
By Jonathan Ugbal Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Calabar division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday adjourned until tomorrow (Thursday), a suit seeking the disqualification of Honorable Regina Anyogo as the House of Assembly candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the Yala 1 State constituency in the 2023 general elections over confusion
By Sylvia Akpan Listen To The Report The anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of three internet fraudsters in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The agency disclosed this in a release. It reads: “The Uyo Zonal Command of the EFCC has secured the conviction and
By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu on Monday, discharged Nigerian journalist and activist, Agba Jalingo in a criminal suit that alleged he committed acts of terrorism, treasonable felony and cyber crimes. This followed the decision of the Cross River State Government to withdraw the
By Jonathan Ugbal Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Calabar Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday criticized the Cross River State Government over it’s handling of Citizen Agba Jalingo’s trial. Citizen Jalingo, a journalist and activist is facing trial on alleged terrorism activities over an article he wrote in July 2019 demanding the whereabouts