NJC

November 4, 2016

NJC’s decision to suspend judges favourable to politicians – Wike

Governor Nyesom Wike has raised eyebrows over the decision of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to suspend 7 judges accused of corruption, The Punch reports. Wike expressed his reservation on Friday when he received the executive members of the Nigerian Bar Association Port Harcourt branch. The governor said politicians were the main beneficiaries of the council’s... Read More

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November 4, 2016

Emulate NJC, sack indicted ministers, PDP tells Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to emulate the action taken by the National Judicial Commission (NJC) on Thursday by sacking ministers in his cabinet indicted by some of the judges. The NJC on Thursday suspended seven judges accused of corruption, directing them to step aside from their judicial functions. In a... Read More

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November 3, 2016

BREAKING: NJC suspends 7 senior judges over corruption charges

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has suspended seven senior judges arrested by the Department Security Service (DSS) for alleged corruption. The judges were arrested in an earlier morning raid in October by the operatives of the DSS. The NJC has been on fire for its refusal to suspend the arrested judges. But in a communique issued... Read More

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November 2, 2016

Our responsibility does not include handing over corrupt judges to EFCC – NJC

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has said it cannot hand over judges accused of corruption to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The NJC said this in a letter dated October 26, 2016 while responding to the request of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) that the NJC should hand over the arrested judges to... Read More

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November 1, 2016

Executive to blame for non-removal of judges – CJN

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mahmud Mohammed says the executive are to blame for the non-removal of seven judges accused of corruption by the Department of State Services (DSS). Mohammed said this in a letter dated October 26 and addressed to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). He added that like all other persons,... Read More

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October 24, 2016

NJC has powers to suspend judges – Falana

Human rights lawyer Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) on Monday said the National Judicial Council (NJC) had the “powers of interim suspension” over erring judges. Falana said this in a letter issued on Monday while addressing issues ranging from the DSS raid of some judges’ home, to the stance of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and the decision... Read More

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October 24, 2016

The YNaija Tracklist: Resign now, Rivers PDP tells Amaechi | Released Chibok girls need psychological rehabilitation – Pope | Onaiyekan backs PMB’s anti-graft war

From the papers this morning – a Tracklist. Released Chibok girls need psychological rehabilitation – Pope – YNaija How ex-gov Yero spent N2.1bn on sweets, juice in 2014 – Commissioner – YNaija 19 cars, SUVs recovered from ex-Inspector General Arase – YNaija Family members, associates seek Obanikoro’s release from EFCC custody – YNaija NJC to... Read More

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October 24, 2016

NJC to stop media reportage on allegations against judges

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has concluded plan to bar media reportage on petitions on misconduct against judges and judicial workers in the country. In a National Judicial Policy to be launched on Monday, the NJC will discard any complaint about a judge, if it is leaked to the media after receipt. The policy partly read,... Read More

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October 21, 2016

BREAKING: We won’t suspend arrested judges, NJC replies NBA

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has said it cannot suspend seven serving judges who were arrested by the DSS for alleged corruption without proper investigation. Abubakar Mahmoud, President Nigerian Bar Association on Thursday had suggested that the NJC sends the judges on compulsory leave. But in a statement by NJC Acting Director, it said suspending... Read More

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October 17, 2016

Opinion: Avoiding a mob mentality in Nigeria’s fight against corruption

by Jide Ojo Last weekend, precisely on October 7 and 8, 2016, the unprecedented happened in the history of Nigerian judiciary. Homes of seven Judges were invaded by the operatives of the Department of State Security Services better known as DSS. The exercise which was carried out at night in a Gestapo like fashion led... Read More

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October 14, 2016

These leaked letters completely change the narrative about judges’ arrest

We all went hard on the Federal Government and the Department of State Security over the weekend about the issue of the illegal arrest of Justices across 6 cities in Nigeria. The FG called it a ‘surgical’ sting operation intended to cleanse the judiciary of corruption. One of the rational arguments put forward against the... Read More

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October 13, 2016

Judges’ arrest: Afe Babalola, Fayose condemn DSS

A senior Advocate of Nigerian (SAN), Chief Afe Babalola, and the Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose, have condemned the arrest of several judges across the country by the Department of State Services (DSS). Both men spoke on Wednesday in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti capital while laying the foundation of the state new High Court complex. Afe Babalola... Read More

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October 10, 2016

The Media Blog: Punch just took it to Buhari – and we’re bloody proud of them

Punch has been a thorn in the flesh of Presidents since Olusegun Obasanjo – their irritation crystallising with Goodluck Jonathan. Of course, straight from the backwaters of ignorance, some of his supporters assumed it was a ‘Yoruba Media’ conspiracy against a candidate from the Niger Delta. Anyone who actually pays attention knows it is embedded... Read More

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October 9, 2016

YNaija Analysis: The DSS as the finger of the Messiah

Let’s face it: like every part of Nigerian society, the Nigerian judiciary has its fair share of corruption. The judges are seen as complicit with the rest of the legal system, especially lawyers, in enabling corruption and keeping those with means out of jail. Increasingly, Nigerian judges are seen as going to the highest bidder... Read More

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October 9, 2016

Demola Olarewaju: 6 critical things we learned from DSS midnight raid on judges

From about 11pm on Friday the 7th of October 2016 and deep into the dead of the night, the Department of State Security (or State Security Services) raided the homes of several judges: including Justice Sylvanus Ngwunta, Justice Inyang Okoro (both Justices of the Supreme Court), Justice Abdullahi Liman of the Federal High Court in... Read More

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October 8, 2016

NJC talks tough over judges’ arrest

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has condemned the invasion of the houses of two Supreme Court Justices, and two Federal High Court judges in Abuja by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Saturday. The latest condemnation by the NJC follows an earlier one by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which declared a “state... Read More

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2 judges sanctioned following petition against them

A statement by the Acting Director of Information to National Judicial Council (NJC), Soji Oye, on Sunday, disclosed that the NJC had recommended the compulsory retirement of two high court judges. The judges – Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Enugu Division of the Federal High Court and Justice Olamide Oloyede of the Osun State High Court –... Read More

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3 judges in trouble… over false age declaration and delayed judgement

The National Judicial Council, on Tuesday, announced that it has sanctioned two Niger state High Court judges for falsifying their dates of birth and a Lagos State High Court judge for delaying judgment in a lawsuit for 22 months. According to a statement released by the NJC’s Acting Director of Information, Soji Oye, the judicial... Read More

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Judge punished heavily, placed on watch list over judicial misconduct

The National Judicial Council (NJC), on Wednesday, announced that a Federal High Court Judge, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, serving in the Lagos Division of the court, has been been banned from any form of promotion till the end of her career. This was contained in a statement signed by the NJC Acting Director, Soji Oye. Oye... Read More

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November 19, 2015

Why Buhari ordered sack of Justice Akanbi

Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Port Harcourt Division of the Federal High Court, has been compulsorily retired by President Muhammadu Buhari. Akanbi’s compulsory retirement, over cases of misconduct, was approved by Buhari, says the Acting Director of Information, National Judicial Council, Soji Oye. Oye said in a statement on Wednesday, that the compulsory retirement came to be,... Read More

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September 27, 2015

This group wants Saraki’s lawyers sanctioned for misleading him

A group known as Civil Society Network Against Corruption has urged the National Judicial Council to sanction Saraki’s lawyers, stating that they have misled their client at his ongoing trial. Chairman of the organisation Olanrewaju Suraj, on behalf of the group said Saraki’s lead lawyers, Joseph Daodu and Mahmud Magaji, advised him wrongly by telling him... Read More

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August 25, 2015

Group defends Osun judge against adultery

The Civil Societies Coalition for Emancipation of Osun State has defended Justice Olamide Oloyede, one who sent petition to the Osun state assembly calling for the removal of Governor Rauf Aregbesola after one Emily Richard-Obire, accused of snatching her husband. Justice Oloyede, is now enmeshed in a scandal of her own, as a mother of four, Mrs... Read More

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Bamidele Aturu: Crisis in the Rivers state judiciary and its feudalistic traits

by Bamidele Aturu Whatever option it chooses, the NJC should withdraw the query it issued to Justice Agumagu as it is uncalled for and constitutes nothing but unthinkable intimidation from a body of eminent judges and lawyers. Many of us want to continue to see the NJC sanitize the judiciary. But it can only do... Read More

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Femi Falana: The illegality of Justice Agumagu’s suspension

by Femi Falana In like manner, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has rejected the purported suspension of the Chief Judge by the NJC. Since the Chief Judge was not appointed by the NJC, the latter lacks the vires to suspend him. No doubt, the NJC is empowered to recommend the appointment, suspension or removal... Read More

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August 21, 2013

Rivers crisis: Wike’s group faults Amaechi’s swearing-in of Acting CJ

by Isi Esene Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s swearing-in of President, state customary Court of Appeal, Justice Peter Agumagu, as the acting chief judge, yesterday has drawn the ire of a group supporting his political rival in Rivers, Nyesom Wike. Reports say Agumagu’s appointment was pending the approval of the female nominee, Daisey W. Okocha, by the Nigeria Judicial... Read More

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Opinion: It pays to be corrupt in Nigeria

by Azuka Onwuka It is contradictory and hypocritical for our people to complain bitterly about corruption in public places, yet when our relative or kinsman gets into any political office, we believe that it is his turn to get rich. There is no denying that a corrupt judge is worse than an armed robber. Last... Read More

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September 16, 2012

EFCC set to arrest five judges accused of corruption

by Isi Esene The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is reported to be investigating five judges; two chief judges and three judges of the Federal High Court, for keeping fat bank accounts. According to reports, the EFCC has in its possession their statements of account and how the funds were transferred into the said... Read More

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Forget Mr President, reinstate me, Salami tells NJC

by Stanley Azuakola Justice Ayo Salami is tired of waiting for President Jonathan to ratify his reinstatement by the National Judicial Council (NJC) as President of the Court of Appeal. The embattled judge has therefore written directly to the National Judicial Council (NJC) to bypass the president and allow him resume work following its decision to lift... Read More

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“Do the right thing” – ACN asks President Jonathan to approve the reinstatement of Justice Salami

by Lekan Olanrewaju The proposed reinstatement of Justice Ayo Salami as chairman of the Court of Appeal has been met with opinions, generally divided, over whether or not the suspended judge should get his job back. The latest camp to weigh in on this matter is the Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN), which has called upon... Read More

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