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Ethiopia: Federal High Court Hearing Ethiopian, Nigerian Airlines Case

Addis Fortune Nigerian domestic flyer, Chanchangi Airlines, has failed to make payments to Ethiopian Airlines for maintenance services The charge by Ethiopian Airlines against a Nigerian domestic flyer, Chanchangi Airlines, which failed to pay 14 million Br for maintenance services … read more »

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Ethiopia: High Court Judge Suspect in Receiving Bribe

By Melkeam Aschalew,Addis Fortune A judge at the Federal First Instant Court was arrested two weeks ago by investigators at the Federal Ethics & Anticorruption Commission, for allegedly receiving a bribe and pledging to issue judgment in favour of one … read more »

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Nigeria police pension Chief who stole $145M pays $14,000 fine to avoid jail

ABUJA, Nigeria –  A court in Nigeria has sentenced a man who once helped oversee the nation’s police pension to two years in prison over the theft of $145 million from the fund. However, he has avoided serving any time … read more »

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Ethiopia Drops Terrorism charges against 29 Muslims

The Ethiopian High Federal Court has dropped one charge in the terror case against 29 Muslims. Terrorism charges were not dropped, although defense lawyers had argued those charges are unconstitutional. The 29 Muslims who were arrested in July on terrorism … read more »

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Four Nigerians face death penalty over UN bombing

Four suspected members of a radical Islamist sect have been charged with orchestrating a suicide bombing on United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital last month that killed at least 23 people. They face the death penalty if found guilty. … read more »

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Two top Nigerian politicians charged with theft: official

ABUJA — Two former leaders of Nigeria’s lower house of parliament faced a 17-count charge of theft and the misappropriation of 241 million dollars in bank loans in an Abuja court Monday, prosecutors said. Dimeji Bankole, the ex-speaker of the … read more »

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Jonathan and Dame Patience Goodluck, Change and the Burden of History

With the impending elections, Nigerians would be seeking through the present, a future. This endeavour constitutes a change process that requires the use of our understanding of why our yesterday was miserable, moment, obscure, as determinants in seeking the realization … read more »

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Nigeria court declares Obasanjo-led Ogun PDP faction illegal

A high court sitting in Abeokuta yesterday declared a faction of the People’s Democratic Party, the Harmonization Committee, unconstitutional, illegal, null and void. The Harmonization Committee, a faction of the party, which enjoys the support of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, … read more »

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Dokpesi maintains he has no connection with bombings

Raymond Dokpesi, the director general of Ibrahim Babangida’s presidential campaign organisation, maintained at a Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday that he had no connection with the Independence Day bomb blast which killed 19 people. The State Security Service (SSS) … read more »

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Nigeria: Court decision on Constitutional Amendment unsettles 2011 polls

Later today, the National Assembly will transmit a clean copy of the second amendment to the 1999 constitution to the state Houses of Assembly for their assent. However, whether both the initial amendment and this will achieve their aims remain … read more »

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Nigera: Akingbola Appeal court to admit more filings

The Court of Appeal, Lagos division, on Tuesday, granted leave to the former Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr Erastus Akingbola, to file additional grounds of appeal challenging the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court in Lagos, presided … read more »

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