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Appeal Court vacates order nullifying Sanusi’s reinstatement as Emir

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Appeal Court vacates order nullifying Sanusi’s reinstatement as Emir

The Kano State Division of the Court of Appeal, on Friday, vacated the High Court order that nullified the reappointment of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the 16th Emir of Kano.

A three-member panel of the appellate court, which delivered its judgement in Abuja, voided the June 20, 2024, decision of Justice Abubakar Liman of the Federal High Court, which invalidated the Kano State Emirates Council (Repeal) Law 2024 that facilitated Sanusi’s reappointment.

According to the appellate court, Justice Liman was bereft of the jurisdiction to nullify the steps the Kano State Government took pursuant to the 2024 Emirates Council Law.

It held that a fundamental rights enforcement suit that was filed by an aggrieved kingmaker in the state, Alhaji Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, which the high court judge relied upon to issue the order, was incompetent.

The appellant court maintained that since the originating suit was not instituted by due process of the law, it robbed the high court of the requisite jurisdiction to entertain it.

It will be recalled that the Kano State House of Assembly had on May 23, last year, enacted the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Law 2024, which the state Governor, Abba Yusuf, assented to on the same date.

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Buoyed by the law, the governor, among other things, deposed the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, and also reversed the status of the emirs of Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye emirates to that of district heads, following the collapse of their emirates into Kano Emirate.

Likewise, governor Yusuf reappointed the 14th Emir of Kano, Sanusi II, who was deposed in 2020 by his predecessor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, who had also enacted the law that divided the Kano emirates into five.

However, dissatisfied with Sanusi’s reappointment as the head of the united emirates in Kano state, Alhaji Agundi, who was a kingmaker and the Sarkin Dawaki Babba under the divided emirates, approached the court and secured an order for the maintenance of status quo, so as to allow the deposed 15th Emir, Bayero, to remain on seat.

In his subsequent verdict on the matter, Justice Liman upheld Alhaji Agundi’s case and declared the actions taken by Governor Yusuf as null and void, a decision the appellate court faulted on Friday.

According to the appellate court panel led by Justice Mohammed Mustapha, though section 46(1) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, imbued the high court with the jurisdiction to entertain fundamental right enforcement cases, Alhaji Agundi suit did not fall within such category.

It held that the crux of the plaintiff’s suit was a chieftaincy related issue as he had contended that the action of the Kano State Government would affect his position as a kingmaker and also strip his place of its emirate status.

The appellate court held that the plaintiff ought to have initiated a civil action to ventilate his grievance rather than his decision to file the fundamental right enforcement suit.

Having declared that the suit was wrongly commenced and therefore robbed the court of the jurisdiction to entertain it, the appellate court held that the proper order was for the matter to be struck out for want of competence.

Even though a member of the panel, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, in his minority decision, agreed that Justice Liman acted without jurisdiction, however, instead of striking out the case, he ordered that it should be transferred and remitted to the Chief Judge of Kano state, to be heard by another judge.

Meanwhile, in another judgement, the appellate court ordered a fresh hearing of the suit the embattled 15th Emir, Bayero, filed to challenge the decision of governor Yusuf to unseat him.

The appellate court held that evidence before it established that Bayero was not accorded fair hearing by the Kano state High Court which it said conducted shoddy proceedings against him.

Justice Mustapha, who delivered the lead judgement, noted that the said proceeding was conducted without the service of hearing notice on Bayero to enable him to present his own side of the case.

He held that all courts of law are bound to ensure justice for all parties by giving them equal opportunities, adding that the manner the proceeding was conduct against Bayero, amounted to a travesty of justice.

Consequently, the appellate court remitted his case back to the Chief Judge of the Kano State High Court to be reassigned to another judge for expeditious determination.

 

Appeal Court vacates order nullifying Sanusi’s reinstatement as Emir

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Ex-convict granted state pardon re-arrested for stealing TV in Osun

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Ex-convict granted state pardon re-arrested for stealing TV in Osun

One of the convicts recently granted clemency by Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State, Omisakin Sunday has been remanded in correctional custody for allegedly stealing plasma television valued N600,000.

The Governor had late last year granted clemency to 53 convicts of various offences including Omisakin Sunday who was granted outright pardon.

However, the Sunday was brought before Magistrate Adeyeba Adekanmi of Osogbo Magistrate Court on two counts of burglary and stealing plasma television belonging to one Damilare Shittu at Iludun area of Osogbo, punishable under sections 411(1)(2) and 390(9) of the state criminal code.

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Sunday pleaded not guilty to the charges but the Prosecutor, Inspector Kayode Adeoye opposed his bail on the ground that the suspect was serving jail term before he was granted clemency by the Governor.

He added that his first activity after he was pardoned is to break into a house and steal therein, hence, urged the court to decline bail.

Ruling on the bail application, Magistrate Adeyeba refused to admit the suspect to bail and remanded him in correctional custody till February for hearing on the matter.

Ex-convict granted state pardon re-arrested for stealing TV in Osun

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Cybercrimes: Immigration arrests 90 foreigners in Rivers

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Cybercrimes: Immigration arrests 90 foreigners in Rivers

Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service has arrested 90 illegal immigrants for alleged cybercrimes perpetrated at different levels to swindle innocent Nigerians.

The suspects were arrested in collaboration with other security agencies at their hideout in Rivers State following credible intelligence.

According to the Rivers State Comptroller of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Y.I Abdulmajeed, a total of 94 persons were arrested. Their profiling revealed that 85 of them are Cameroonians, five are Chadians and four are Nigerians. Of the 94 people, 74 are males and 20 females.

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It was also gathered that all the 90 foreigners gained access to the country through unauthorised entry points and none presented residence cards or any form of travelling documents after interrogation.

Two other Nigerians from Rivers State, who provided accommodation, were also arrested.

Abdulmajeed also revealed that the Comptroller General of Immigration Service, Kemi Nandap, ordered that the needful be done to repatriate the foreigners back to their various countries of origin.

 

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Over 5000 Nigerian women stranded in Iraq – FG

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Over 5000 Nigerian women stranded in Iraq – FG

Over 5000 Nigerian women are currently stranded in Iraq, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has said.

Chairman of the Commission, Hon. (Mrs.) Abike Dabiri-Erewa stated that the women travelled to Iraq as caregivers only to be stranded in the country.

Over 5000 Nigerian women are currently stranded in Iraq, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has said.

Chairman of the Commission, Hon. (Mrs.) Abike Dabiri-Erewa stated that the women travelled to Iraq as caregivers only to be stranded in the country.

Many Nigerians especially women have been stranded abroad after travelling through irregular means with promises of jobs.

Dabiri-Erewa told the participants selected from the Six South-West states that there are huge opportunities in Nigeria instead of migrating in the name of seeking greener pastures.

The Chairman disclosed that a husband sent his wife to Iraq to be a caregiver but the woman died mysteriously and the Nigerian Mission is helping to bring back the corpse.

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She said, “As I speak with you today there are about 5,000 women stranded in Iraq. I just dealt with a case last week. A husband sent his wife to Iraq to be a caregiver. She’s dead.

“Can you imagine! Now how do you bring the body back? That’s what is worrying the husband. He doesn’t know where to start. So, we had to intervene. The mission had been able to intervene, they would do an autopsy to see how she died because she just died mysteriously being a caregiver.”

She explained that while there are challenges in Nigeria just like other countries in the world, there are huge opportunities for investment.

“And this is why we are having this workshop,” she said, adding it would be replicated in the other five geopolitical zones of Nigeria to train and educate the participants on the untapped opportunities in Nigeria for diasporan investment.

Group Managing Director of G-Consulting, Dr. Godfrey Ajayi Sunday stated that through the workshop, the firm would be mobilising over $100m in funding to support participants who want to engage in one business or the other in partnership with those in the Diaspora.

He said there are various investment opportunities in real estate, and agriculture, among others for Nigerians to tap into, adding the idea is to sell the opportunities to those in the diaspora to put in their money.

Other facilitators also encouraged the participants to jettison the idea of irregular migration and see how they can tap into available opportunities in Nigeria.

Over 5000 Nigerian women stranded in Iraq – FG

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