Court restrains Zamfara Assembly from impeaching dep gov

Onoja told the court that the House of Assembly and others were planning to impeach the deputy governor, who has refused to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC), adding that it was of utmost urgency that the court intervened by granting an interim injunction against the fifth to seventh defendants: speaker, governor and chief judge.

Mahdi Gusau Nyako’s no-case submission, appeal on land case dismissedA Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained the Zamfara State House of Assembly Speaker and two others from proceeding with their planned impeachment of the Deputy Governor, Mahdi Gusau.

SIMILARLY, Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has dismissed a no-case submission filed by former Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, in the N29 billion money laundering charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

ALSO, Justice Ebiowei Tobi of the Court of Appeal, Gombe State, has dismissed the appeal of Fette Saidu (appellant) and Christopher Botin (respondent) over ownership of farmland, stating that the appeal lacks merit.

“The lower court in reversing the decisions of the two courts under it that is the Area Court and the Upper Area Court upset the finding of facts of the courts..

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