Sentences with phrase «state high court»

Other state high courts reached different results in similar cases.

Justice Muntar Abimbola of Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday sentenced a female lawyer, Yetunde Oyediran, accused of stabbing her husband to death in Ibadan Oyo state, to seven years in prison for manslaughter.

Justice Lateef Lawal Akapo of a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Monday convicted and sentenced a former court registrar, Mrs. Rosulu Idowu Oluronke, to 10 years Imprisonment.

(A slightly dated, more complete list of state high court Blakely rulings can be found in this post and many other state Blakely rulings can be found at this index.)

Recall that the Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja had delivered a judgment on the 29th of June, 2017 in which it invalidated the suspension of the embattled lawmaker.

Two persons, who have been on trial for 11 years, have been discharged by an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan.

EFCC Arraigns Man for Fraud The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today arraigned one Bolaji Quadri (aka Philip Coffert) before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court on a 6 - count charge of forgery and obtaining money under false pretence.

There was a mild drama at the Ondo state High Court on Thursday as an Akure based lawyer and right activist, Femi Emmanuel - Emodamori accused Justice Aderemi...

An Osun State High Court on Friday granted female Muslim students in the state, the right to wear hijab in public schools.

The court case is before Justice Hajara Gwadah of Kaduna State High Court against Governor Nasir el - Rufai and two others.

A Non-governmental organisation - HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state for flouting a subsisting order of an Imo State High Court by forcefully demolishing the Ancient EkeUkwu Market in Owerri leading to many fatalities.

No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.

... (T) he Washington state high court ruled... that the law violates the state constitution, which says that public school funds can be used only to support «common schools.»

An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta on Thursday dismissed a fraud suit filed against three former principal officers of the Federal University...

Meanwhile, Justice Festus Ntong of Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene has declined an application to stop ICPC or any other federal anti-corruption agency from investigating allegations of corruption involving the finances of the Government of Akwa Ibom State.

They were all discharged and acquitted by an Ekiti State High Court presided over by Justice Lekan Ogunmoye who held that the prosecution failed to prove the case of murder against tem beyond reasonable doubt.

According to the statement, «Council also at the Meeting, decided to warn Hon. Justice M. N. Esowe of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Adolphus Enebeli of the High Court of Justice, Rivers State and Hon. Justice Bassey Frank Etuk of the Akwa - Ibom State High Court for different offences and place two of them on the «Watch List» of the Council.

Amaewhule, while moving the motion entitled: «Motion to condemn the violent attack / closure of the Rivers State High Court on Friday, May 11, 2018», said lives of the state's chief judge, judges, judiciary staff and even Governor Wike, are under threat.

A former Kano State High Court Judge, Hon. Justice Kabiru Mamman Auta has been arrested by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences...

The Benue State High Court presided over by the Chief Judge, Justice Iorhemen Hwande, has restrained the Governor of Benue State and eight others from appointing...

An Oyo State High Court presided over by Justice Olajumoke Aiki on Friday declared the review of the 1957 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration and other Related Chieftaincies in Ibadan land by the Justice Akintunde Boade Review Commission, which was set up by the Oyo State Government, as unconstitutional, illegal, null, void and of no effect.

Looking at 12 years» worth of data from state high court elections, Boyea found that campaign contributors are nearly twice as generous, on average, in states with partisan judicial elections than they are in states with nonpartisan judicial elections.

The decisions in Schofield and Maugaotega are both quite interesting and thoughtful, and they both reflect well on state high courts doing their best to make sense of the messy sentencing jurisprudence that the US Supreme Court has produced with Blakely and Booker.

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Until very recently, the only state high court decisions (from VA and DE) on our ediscovery for defendants cheat sheet involved sanctions against plaintiffs for destroying social media evidence.

Ndukwe had obtained an injunction from an Abia State High Court sitting at Okpuala Ngwa on March 8 to sack Nwankpa and other party executive members in his camp.

The Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has adjourned sitting until April 12 and May 22, 2017 in the case between Godsidi Investments Limited and Access Bank, over alleged disappearance of N151.8 m from the claimant's account.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 arraigned a former Plateau governor, David Jonah Jang, before Justice Daniel Longji of the Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos on a 12 - count charge bordering on misappropriation of funds to the tune of N6.3 billion.

The matter was then adjourned till October 12, 2017 for pre-trial hearing in line with Section 3 of the Kwara State High Court Practice Direction, 2013, after which a new date for trial would be set.

This is coming two months after a Delta State High Court sentenced Chief Newton Agbofodo to death by hanging over alleged murder and other cases.

The Senator representing Kaduna Central in the Nigerian Senate, Shehu Sani, has slammed a N5billion counterclaim in a Kaduna State High Court against Governor Nasir El - Rufai for alleged libellous broadcast.

The National Judicial Council, NJC, has ordered Justices Ugbo Ononogbo of Abia State and Nasir Gunmi of Zamfara State High Court to vacate their offices with...

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A decade later, the Wisconsin Supreme Court was the first state high court to say a nonbiological mother may seek visitation after separation.

He has also approached an Oyo State High Court asking for a restraining order to prevent the Olubadan - in - Council from installing the Olubadan - in - designate, Adetunji, as the next Olubadan.

The Acting Chairman of the Commission, Hon. Abdullahi Bako, who made the presentation on behalf of the Commission explained that the amendment had become necessary given the fact that the Commission is restricted by its extant law to prosecute cases only in State High courts which has hampered its prosecutorial effectiveness because high profile defendants often wield substantial influence within a state.

According to Norbert Goebel, the presiding judge at the Saxony state high court in Leipzig, the teen had been engaging in «highly criminal activity» since 2013, and facilitated the movement of «almost a ton of narcotics.»

Luka Binniyat has been remanded in custody by Kaduna State High Court after being accused of publishing a false report of an attack by nomadic Fulani herdsman.

The ICPC, therefore, arraigned the suspects before Justice Umar Abubakar of Kebbi State High Court 3 sitting in Birnin Kebbi for alleged misapplication of the sum of N664, 000, 000.

The Bauchi State High Court number 6, on Friday, sentenced a 33 - year - old man, Jaridu Ahmad, to death by hanging for killing an 11 - years - old girl.

«Conversely, 187 of them are at Federal and state high courts while 141 are at the Court of Appeal.

«I must commend Justice Henry Olusuyi of Kogi State High Court II's decision to reinstate me from suspension.

The order of leave granted ex-parte is as stipulated by Order 40, Rule 3 of the Osun State High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2008 and is a mandatory condition precedent to bringing the application by the Applicant which application is yet to be filed and served on the Governor.

Collectively, they filed a case against the trio before Justice David Mann of State High Court III, in Jos.

At a resumed sitting of the Katsina State high court where the ICPC is prosecuting three former officials of the last administration on Tuesday, the state Attorney general and Commissioner for justice, Mr. Ahmed El - Narzuk sought the permission of the court to take over the prosecution of the indicted officials brought by the ICPC.

A Cross River State High Court on March 21, 2018, sentenced a retired staff member of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Godwin Elewana, to death by hanging for killing 22 - year - old Douglas Ojugbo, suspected to be the boyfriend of Elewana's daughter.