Yahaya Bello: Hearing in EFCC chair’s motion against contempt proceedings

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Hearing of an ex-parte motion for stay of proceedings filed by EFCC Chairman, Mr Ola Olukayode, against contempt charge instituted by former Governor of Kogi, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, was on Monday stalled at the Court of Appeal, Abuja.

The two-day workshop, organised by the Appeal Court on the Review of the 2023 Election Petition Tribunals/Court and Appeals, began today in Abuja.

The EFCC chair is facing a contempt charge for carrying out “some acts upon which they have been restrained” by the lower court on Feb. 9, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive originating motion. Justice Jamil’s order was based on a motion ex-parte filed by Bello, through his lawyer, M.S. Yusuf, where he prayed the court for an order to issue and serve the respondent with Form 49 Notice to show cause why order of committal should not be made on him.

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, dismissed the application filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra , Nnamdi Kanu, seeking an order setting aside the 2017 order revoking his bail for alleged abscondment from the trial. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, also rejected Kanu’s request to be transferred to…

A former Minister of Labour and Chairman of First Bank Nigeria, Ajibola Afonja, has passed away at the age of 82. The Oyo-born Prince died on Sunday night at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. In a statement released late Sunday, the Oyo Global Forum , a prominent community-interest group, through…

 

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