APPEAL COURT NULLIFIES JUDGEMENT AGAINST RIVERS LG ELECTION. (PHOTO).

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 Appeal Court nullifies judgement against Rivers LG election The Court of Appeal in Abuja has nullified the judgement that barred the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from releasing voters register to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, for the conduct of local government elections that held in the state on October 5. A special panel of the court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel led by Justice Onyekachi Otisi, faulted the Federal High Court for barring security agencies from providing security during the elections. The panel held that the lower court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain suit against the Rivers State LG elections. He stressed that Section 28 of the Electoral Act does not cover elections conducted by states, but only federal elections, governorship and area council elections in the Federal Capital Territory. It will be recalled that Justice Peter Lifu of the high court had, in a judgement he delivered on a suit that w

UPDATE: UTME CANDIDATE SENTENCED TO JAIL FOR IMPERSONATION. (PHOTO).


 A candidate for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination #UTME 

was sentenced to jail by an Abuja magistrate court.


Jide Jisos, the candidate is facing a six-month imprisonment for impersonating someone during the 2019 UTME.


The judge, Justice Folashade Oyekan, found Jisos guilty on one count of impersonation and convicted him.


ACCORDING TO ANOTHER SOURCE:

Court jails ‘Professor’ for attempting to write UTME for daughter


A Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has sentenced ‘Professor’ Jide Josiah Jisos to six months in prison for impersonation during the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME.

The convict was apprehended by officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB, while monitoring the 2019 UTME at Brix Academy in Abuja.


The board which confirmed this in a statement, Sunday, by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, said ‘Prof.’ Jisos had presented himself to JAMB examination officials as a representative of a non-governmental Organisation, NGO, claiming he was there to oversee the examination.

“However, his deception was uncovered when he was questioned by the leader of the monitoring team in the examination hall, who asked him to clarify his purpose.


"Unable to substantiate his claims, Jisos was arrested and handed over to security personnel for further investigation. During interrogation, he confessed that he was not affiliated with any NGO and was actually in the examination hall to assist his daughter in taking the 2019 UTME.

"Chief Magistrate Honourable Justice

Folashade Oyekan found Jisos guilty of a one-count charge of impersonation and sentenced him to six months in prison, with an option of a N100,000 fine, "the statement read.

The statement did not state the day the judgment was given.

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