Tag: AGF Malami

Electoral Act: Controversy lingers as Appeal Court overrules Malami

Aminu Imam

The Owerri Division of the Court of Appeal last week ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, (SAN), and others to suspend the execution of the judgment of the Federal High Court, which struck down Section 84 (12) of the newly amended Electoral Act. Malami had on March 22, after a Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia State, nullified Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act on March 18, foreclosed possible appeals by vowing to promptly enforce the verdict. However, a 3-member panel of the…

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Electoral Act: Appeal Court restrains Malami, others from frustrating appeal

Aminu Imam

The Court of Appeal has restrained the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN), and others from taking steps to frustrate the hearing of an appeal against a judgment mandating the AGF to delete Section 84(12) from the amended Electoral Act. A three-member panel of the court, led by Justice Rita Nosakhare Pemu, in a ruling, granted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) permission to appeal as an interested party against the March 18, 2022 judgment by Justice Justice Evelyn Anyadike, of the Federal High Court,…

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2023: Federal High Court orders AGF to delete Section 84 (12) from amended new Electoral Act

Aminu Imam

Declares section unconstitutional, invalid illegal The Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia yesterday struck down Section 84(12) of the newly amended Electoral Act which President Muhammadu Buhari had written to the National Assembly requesting them to delete. The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, held that the section was unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, null, void and of no effect whatsoever and ought to be struck down as it cannot stand when it is in violation of the clear provisions of the Constitution. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had,…

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“I pray for a glorious End Malami

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Says he has no plan to resign as minister The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN), says he has no plan to resign. While delivering a keynote address yesterday, during a media conference organised by the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents (NAJUC), Abuja chapter, Malami described reports of his purported resignation to further a political ambition as ‘fake news’. He added that there needs to be sanctions for persons who publish fake reports. Many public officers have been victims of malicious media reports …

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Alleged Cocaine Deal: AGF Malami denies exonerating Abba Kyari

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The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN), has described as false the media reports that he had conclusively exonerated Abba Kyari of any wrongful act in the alleged cocaine deal. The clarification was made in a statement issued yesterday by the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Office of the AGF and Minister of Justice, Dr. Umar Gwandu. According to Malami, there appears to be a misunderstanding regarding the issue. He said, It was a case of work-in-progress in respect of which the…

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Electoral Act 2022: Court rules against Buhari, AGF Malami, Senate President, others

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A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has restrained President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami and the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, from tampering with the 2022 Electoral Act recently signed into law. the National Assembly from taking any further step regarding section 84 (12) of the newly amended Electoral Act. The presiding judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo, gave the order yesterday, while delivering ruling in an ex-parte application brought by the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), challenging the legality of the national assembly to amend the Bill…

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Electoral Act: ‘Malami using his office to endanger our democracy’ CSOs

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A group, under the aegis of ‘Civil Society Partners on Electoral Reform’, has accused Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, of abusing the powers and advantages of his office in giving wrong advice to the President in signing the Electoral Bill into law. The group said high-level of insensitivity to the public interest; negative disposition and opposition to the Electoral Bill by the AGF was an affront to democracy and Section 174 (3) of the 1999 Constitution. In a statement issued yesterday by the Executive…

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AGF Malami asks Judiciary to open its budget for scrutiny

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The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN), yesterday asked the Judiciary to stop shrouding its budget in secrecy, insisting that such a system would not enable the Federal Government to determine if the N104 billion allocated to the judicial sector would be sufficient or not. The AGF stated this as the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, tasked the judiciary to devise workable solutions to the problem of delays in the justice delivery system. Malami, who spoke at the Justice Sector Reform Summit 2022, organised by…

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Bandits now officially designated ‘terrorists’ as Nigerian FG gazettes order

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The Federal Government yesterday gazetted an order of the High Court proscribing bandits and declared their activities as terrorism. In the official gazette titled: ‘Terrorism (Prevention) Proscription Order Notice, 2021‘ and released yesterday by the Attorney-General of the Federation, (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN), the federal government relied on the order of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The order was granted on November 25, 2021. The Court Order stated:“1. THAT ORDER is hereby made declaring the activities of the Ist Respondent (Yan Bindiga group), 2nd Respondent (Yan…

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Nigeria’s Insecurity: “Why we are yet to declare bandits as terrorists” – FG

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The Federal Government says it is yet to designate bandits as terrorists because of international best practices. While speaking on a television programme yesterday, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), said the process would be concluded in a matter of days. According to him, his office was in the process of gazetting the court judgement that ordered the government to declare bandits as terrorists. Recall that in November, a Federal High Court, in Abuja, granted an ex-parte application for gunmen and bandits to…

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