The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Jabi, Abuja, has granted a request sent by the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF to arraign the Chief Registrar, as well as two other officials of the Supreme Court, on a nine-count charge of corruption and diversion of about N2.2bn belonging to the court.
The Federal Government has filled a 9-count charge of money laundering and corruption against a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Sylvester Ngwuta.
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has finally bowed to overwhelming pressure from various quarters and has suspended the seven senior judges facing allegations of corruption.
A huge number of protesters, made up of mainly lawyers, took to major streets in the Federal Capital Territory, to protest the alleged continued disobedience of court orders by the Department of State Security, DSS.
