Court of Appeal

SERAP Asks Appeal Court To Order Release Of Asset Declarations Of Buhari

June 7, 2020 9:07 am

SERAP asks Court of Appeal to order release of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos to set aside a judgment of a Federal High Court and to order public disclosure of asset declaration details submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) by President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, governors and their deputies and other politicians since 1999.”

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos had on Monday, May 11, 2020, dismissed the application filed by SERAP seeking “an order of mandamus to direct and compel the CCB to …

Police Urge Appeal Court To Uphold Maryam Sanda’s Death Sentence

June 1, 2020 4:55 am

The Police has prayed the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division to uphold the death sentence imposed on Maryam Sanda by an Abuja High Court for killing her husband Bilyaminu Bello.

In its brief of argument filed in response to the appeal filed by Sanda’s legal team led by Joe Kyari Gadzama (SAN), the police submitted that the trial court was right in finding Sanda guilty of willfully murdering her husband in cold blood.

According to Police Counsel, James Idachaba, the trial judge, Justice Yusuf Halilu properly evaluated the evidence before him in reaching the decision to find Sanda guilty and

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The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab A. Bulkachuwa,

Why We Are Building More Appeal Courts – Bulkachuwa

February 10, 2020 11:32 am

The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab A. Bulkachuwa, has said that in order to ensure quick dispensations of justice, the idea for the creation of more Court of Appeal was adopted.

She said the expansion of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal across Nigeria was aimed at ensuring easy access to justice everywhere.

Bulkachuwa who was speaking in Kano on Monday while commissioning the newly constructed division of the court in the state, said the newly created division of the Appeal Court across the country will curtail the frustrations litigants encounter while trying to exhaust their rights to

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