Justice S. Seidu of a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has imposed a fine of N50,000 on former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, for withdrawing a suit instituted against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
In the suit, Mrs Jonathan sought an order of the court for the “enforcement of her fundamental human rights to own property, fair hearing, human dignity, private and family life and freedom from discrimination”.
In a defence led by I. A. Adedipe, SAN, she prayed the court to retrain the EFCC from encroaching on those “rights”.
Prosecution counsel, Kayode Oni, faulted Jonathan on her prayers before the court, arguing that her suit was an abuse of court processes. At the resumption of hearing on the matter on Monday July 3rd, one of the defense counsels, Sammie Somiari, addressed the court on a notice of discontinuance of the suit, saying that he had an instruction of his client to discontinue the matter.
He said that an application had been filed before the court to that effect. Counsel to the EFCC submitted that Mrs. Jonathan has a right of discontinuance but pressed for a charge of N500,000( Five Hundred Thousand Naira only) as costs of filing processes in response to the suit.
Justice Seidu struck out the suit and awarded a cost of N50,000 (Fifty Thousand Naira only) as a fine against Jonathan. Dame Patience Jonathan instituted the suit against the EFCC in February, 2017.
OP and Obiano Media Center, tell Obiano that his helicopter was flying above us with Nigerian flag when we shut down Head Bridge in December 2015. Shortly, the police and Army came and killed Biafrans in the middle of the night after I went home.
Nnamdi Kanu has no business with Obiano, APGA, Nigerian politics.
FKO81: Conehead what's your business with Igbo matter
Sometimes you read something and cannot help but laugh out loud. It’s the eaction that we had to yesterday’s statement by the Indigenous People of Biafra claiming that their leader, Nnamdi Kanu has not for once since his release from Kuje Prison in April flouted his bail conditions.
LOL is right. Because they have to be kidding.
Otherwise who did they think would be fooled into believing that Nnamdi Kanu has not flouted his bail conditions: “Nnamdi Kanu never flouted his bail conditions because the court said he should not go for rallies or protests and he has never done that since his release. But citizens of Biafra and other parts of Nigeria want to see him, that is why you see him with people and these people come to his father’s house. He cannot chase those who want to see him away. Since his release he never called for any rally or protest or press conference. Don’t you know that if he wants to call the press he will call both local and international media? The court did not bar people from visiting him in his father’s compound. The court did not say he should not visit anyone in the society. Therefore, the security operatives have no justification to re-arrest him because he has never gone beyond their limit or held any rally or protest.”
Not are we sure that Emma Powerful, the author of this statement intentionally leave out some of, twist or maybe just misunderstood the conditions upon which Nnamdi Kanu was granted bail in April, it appears that he had the intention to mislead a lot of people with this statement.
Just last week, investigative journalist, Kadaria Ahmed posted videos showing thousands of people gathered at the home of the IPOB leader in Abia State. In one of them, he is seen egging the shouting supporters on by raising his hands. One of the conditions upon which Justice Binta Nyanko granted Nnamdi, who is being tried for treason, bail is that he must never be in a crowd or in a gathering of more than ten people. Let’s even say from that video, he gets off “being in a crowd” on a technicality (after all, we don’t know that he called the crowd nor did he jump in their midst like the hero that he is), by our count, those on the balcony where Nnamdi was waving from are clearly more than ten.
Yet, we are not trying to be reactionary or hard on Mr Powerful in case last week’s incident is what he used as the basis of his statement. So let’s look at all the other times that Nnamdi Kanu clearly flouted his bail conditions (including speaking with both local and international media):
Being in a crowd of more than 10 people
When Justice Binta Nyako granted Nnamdi Kanu bail in April, it was on the condition that the IPOB leader must never be in a crowd or a gathering of more than 10 people. Yet, he showed up to this Shabbat Rally one weekend and addressed a more than a dozen people. Kanu must have either forgotten about his bail conditions or been oblivious to the fact that he was being recorded.
But Nnamdi Kanu obviously cannot be bothered with anyone – especially not a Nigerian Judge – ordering him not to speak with Al-Jazeera because he did. And he bared his heart about how “nothing seems to be working in Nigeria and how his demand for secession of some Southern parts of Nigeria “is not self-determination for the sake of it, “but because Nigeria is not functioning and can never function”.
Meeting with “dozens of people”
“And with that Kanu stands up and goes outside to meet the people who have waited hours to see him.” is how the Al Jazeera feature writer, Chika Oduah, ended her piece. Suggesting that Nnamdi Kanu knowingly breached his bail condition not to be a gathering “exceeding 10 people”.
At the beginning of her article, she’d written of the scene at Kanu’s residence where she interviewed him:
“I can’t allow large [groups of] people to basically congregate outside to see me … it’s like asking me not to breathe,” he [Nnamdi Kanu] says… On the other side of the parlour door, dozens of people are waiting to see Kanu. A throng of young men dressed in black guard the compound. They refer to Kanu as, “our supreme leader” or “his royal highness”.
The only difference between this recent video and the strong imagery painted by Chika Oduah is that from the video, we do not see Nnamdi actually “physically” meeting the people outside his home. Although both situation actually convey him “meeting with people” even if we do not know that he talked to them directly.
The kidnap and alleged murder of the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Ondo State, Olumide Odimayo, is nothing but sad, unfortunate and a waste of a promising and innocent soul. Police detectives are working round the clock to ascertain if he actually died of exhaustion as claimed by one of the suspects David, son of Francis Seiniyeagha, the wood supplier who allegedly carried him whenever he was tired during the long walk inside the bush or he was killed to avenge the death of their leader who was shot dead by some youths and police detectives.
How Politician Was Kidnapped, Murdered By Workers He Contracted To Build His House. Photo
David said he decided to drop the victim after the gang members discovered that those chasing them were closing up on them.“We dropped him inside the water when we discovered that the youths and the police detectives were very close to us,”the son said.
Ekan Roman, who was also paraded, said that he was contacted by the deceased to help him look for a timber contractor hence his suggestion of Francis and his son.
Roman said he was not part of the kidnapping arrangement but that he was arrested for introducing the father and son to the deceased person.
Meanwhile, the deceased APC chieftan’s long time ambition to surprise his wife and children, who had been living in the UK for years by constructing a magnificent edifice in his home town, lgbotu in Ese- Odo area of the state, was aborted abruptly.
How Politician Was Kidnapped, Murdered By Workers He Contracted To Build His House. Photo
He was said to be very generous and was one of the party chieftains pencilled down for a board appointment expected to be announced by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu any moment from now. He was an aspirant for the House of Assembly election in 2015.
His death is sad because those who he employed to help in the building of his choice residence snuffed life out of him because of greed.
Meanwhile, a family source hinted that the autopsy carried out on Odimayo showed that he was shot by the suspects before they escaped from the youths and policemen pursuing them in the bush.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that the family was waiting for the autopsy report before burial which would take place in lgbotu at a date yet to be fixed.
It was learnt that family members of the deceased had agreed to go ahead with the burial as his estranged wife and three children would not attend.
Zoo people don't have sense. How can Nnamdi Kanu's co-accused appear in court without him when he hasn't been discharged and acquited by the fraudulent zoo judiciary?
“My Husband Is Not A Boxer, But He Derives Pleasure In Punching Me Always’ – Woman Tells Court
A Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has dissolved a four-year-old union on the grounds of wife battery. A fashion designer, Taiwo Solademi, had approached the court seeking a separation from her husband, Abiodun Solademi, a printer, on the grounds of neglect and battery.
“My Husband Is Not A Boxer, But He Derives Pleasure In Punching Me Always’ – Woman Tells Court File Photo Taiwo in her suit prayed the court to dissolve their union and grant her custody of their children.
“My husband is not a boxer, but he developed the skill shortly after we got married.
“Rather than go to the stadium to practise, he stayed back home and turned me to his punching bag.
“Hardly would a day pass without him punching me.
“He would beat me and not leave me until I bleed from the wound he had inflicted on me.
“There was a day he beat me so much that I fainted. I was unconscious for days in the hospital. It took prayers and God’s grace to bring me back, “Taiwo stated.
“I can’t recall when last he left feeding allowance. I single handedly feed the home, clothe the children and pay their school fees.
“I’ve endured his maltreatment enough. My lord, my mind is made up. I’m leaving him, “she concluded.
Abiodun did not agree to his wife’s prayer of divorce, giving the welfare of the children as his major reason.
“I still love my wife and I have begged her, but she has refused to go back on her decision.
“It is true that I beat her. I apologised to her, my family members also did but she ignored our pleas.
“It’s not true that I neglected her and our children; I did all in my power to make them comfortable.
“She moved out of the home of recent and withdrew the children from school. She moved to her sister’s place at Ilorin,” the defendant said.
Having granted both parties audience, the court president, Chief Ademola Odunade, observed that the mind of the plaintiff was made up.
Odunade, therefore, ordered their marriage dissolved and granted the plaintiff custody of the children.
The defendant was ordered to give the children N8,000 monthly as feeding allowance and take up responsibility of their education and health care.
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Photos: Ahmed Musa and Juliet Ejue’s traditional wedding to hold today in Ogoja, Cross River State
Photos: Ahmed Musa and Juliet Ejue's traditional wedding to hold today in Ogoja, Cross River State Nigeria football international, Ahmed Musa is set to marry Juliet Ejue traditionally today in Ogoja local government area of Cross River State. The pacey Leicester City football club of England forward is currently in Juliet’s village, Idum Mbube community in Ogoja, where the traditional marriage ceremony is scheduled to take place. See photos from their bachelor/hen party. And also photos from the wedding venue after the cut…
Photos: Ahmed Musa and Juliet Ejue's traditional wedding to hold today in Ogoja, Cross River State
Lol! Check out a Nigerian girl’s birthday message to her dad
Nigerian girl, Kim Annie took to her Facebook page to send a special birthday shoutout to her dad and it got people talking! See the post below…
Lol! Check out a Nigerian girl’s birthday message to her dad
“God Bless my father for putting his Preeq� inside my Mother’s Pussy�� Tew produce mhe.. Putting it At d rty time nd on d rty Spot���� I love my daddy ehnn��”
I mean, the Fulani are the tormentors of trouble. so, why are Nairalanders more concerned about IPOB instead of the herdsmen.
My question is, WHY?
Everybody knows that Fulani militia are one of the biggest problems in Africa. Your goof was bringing them in one sentence with IPOB although you were not comparing them.
Skull miners are harvesting human parts like it's no man's business in Osun, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun while Baddo terrorist group are crushing people's skulls like egg in Lagos and Ogun. I don't even want to mention Hausa/Fulani butchering innocent Sudanese migrants and sky fallers at Ife, Mile 12 and everywhere.
By the time this people get their Oduo Republic, only few people will be left in that region and that will be in Ekiti State.
Save Yoro.baland before the imminent crash of Nigeria. We have to save these people now that they are still in Nigeria.
United Nations, CNN, World Bank, USA, Trump, Israel, China, please do something.
najoke: Yes...99.9% of the "Kanu" thread are created by Biafuros....you guys should leave Nairaland for Nigerians, deactivate your account and lets see if there will be any mention of Kanu here on Nairaland.... go and discuss Kanu on Biafrasay, egberetvnews and Biafranherald.
Go and develop Biafrasay, egberetvnews and Biafranherald, leave Nigerians to enjoy their Lagos Ibadan forum
so Biafuros.....any comment .
Lol. Says a cone headed daft unity begging terrorist whose last 3 created topics on his profile is about Biafra.
Politics › Court Fines Patience Jonathan N50,000 For Withdrawing Her Suit by conductor1(op): 10:52am On Jul 04, 2017
