A fundraiser has been launched to appeal serial killer Lucy Letby’s conviction as a campaigner claims that the nurse’s trial for her sickening crimes ‘may represent one of the greatest miscarriages of justice ever’. Letby, 33, was convicted of murdering seven babies in her care at the Countess of Chester Hospital and trying to kill six others over a yearlong period. The former neonatal nurse is Britain’s most prolific child serial killer of modern times and was sentenced …
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The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by immediate past Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi seeking to stop his probe over an alleged N96 billion fraud. In a lead judgment prepared by Justice Emmanuel Augie but read by Justice Adamu Jairo today May 27, the apex court dismissed the appeal of Ameachi on grounds that the issue of not being given a fair hearing does not arise as no one is on trial. Amaechi who was governor …
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has rejected the court which ordered suspension of their ongoing strike. LIB reported that Justice Bashir Alkali gave the ruling on Friday September 17, following an interlocutory application brought by the Federal Government of Nigeria and Federal Ministry of Health against the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). However in a statement signed by NARD’s President Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, and Jerry Isogun, the group’s secretary-general, the National Industrial Court in Abuja was accused of denying the doctors fair hearing by …
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello. In a judgement delivered today July 4, the five-man panel of justices of the court upheld Governor Bello’s election, dismissing the appeals filed by four political parties challenging the governor’s re-election in the November 2019 governorship poll. Those who filed the appeals were the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Action Peoples Party (APP), and the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP). …
Cricket player, Alex Hepburn, who was jailed in 2019 for raping a sleeping woman, lost his court appeal to have his conviction overturned on Tuesday June 30. Hepburn, an Australian aged 24, was jailed for five years last April for assaulting a “dozing” woman during a “conquest” contest he helped set up with his friends on WhatsApp. He was …
Adams Oshiomhole’s appeal which challenged his suspension as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been dismissed by a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja. Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam who led the 3-man panel which presided over the case, unanimously dismissed the appeal at the request of the former APC national chairman on Tuesday June 30. Recall that Justice Danlami Senchi of an Abuja High Court had given effect to the suspension of Oshiomhole from his ward, on grounds of executives …