NIGERIA SUSPENDS STATE DEFENCE CORPS COMMANDER AFTER DEATHS OF MINERS IN CUSTODY. (PHOTO).

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 Nigeria suspends state defence corps commander after deaths of miners in custody Nigeria has suspended the NSCDC commandant of Niger State "pending investigations" after 37 people suspected of being illegal miners died while in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, a federal paramilitary agency in Nigeria. Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo ordered the "immediate suspension" of Niger State's NSCDC commandant, Suberu Siyaka Aniviye, pending the outcome of a full investigation after 37 people suspected of being illegal miners died while in detention on Thursday morning. "It is an unfortunate incident; however, a full investigation will be conducted while the commandant under whose watch this happened remains suspended," the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Residents of the city in central Nigeria took to the streets to protest overnight after 37 detainees were found dead in the custody of a paramilitary force that had raid...

ELECTORAL ACT: “THE OFFICE OF THE AGF WILL GIVE EFFECT TO COURT JUDGEMENT IN LINE WITH THE DICTATES OF THE LAW” - MALAMI. (PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.



ELECTORAL ACT: “THE OFFICE OF THE AGF WILL GIVE EFFECT TO COURT JUDGEMENT IN LINE WITH THE DICTATES OF THE LAW” - MALAMI


The Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN has said that his Office will accordingly give effect to the Court judgment in line with the dictates of the law and the spirit of the judgment.

This was in a Statement signed by Dr. Umar Jibril Gwandu, the Special Assistant to the HAGF on media and made available to newsmen on 18th March. 2022.
The HAGF stated that the judgment of the Court will be recognized by the Government printers in printing the Electoral Act.

He disclosed that, “ The Act will be gazetted factoring the effect of the judgment into consideration and deleting the constitutionally offensive provision accordingly”.

He explained that, “the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022 is not part of our law and will be so treated accordingly”.

According to him, “this is in line with the dictates of chapter 7, Part 4, Section 287 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) on enforcement of decisions that makes it a point of duty and obligation on all authorities and persons to have the judgment of the federal High Court, among others, to be enforced”.

Modupe Ogundoro
Deputy Director 
Friday 18th March, 2022.

 

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