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Views: Visits 38 The Ministry of Information and Culture has recalled the Head, Press and Public Relations of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Ibraheem Al-Hassan, over the blundering statement he recently issued in the aftermath of the assault incident involving the tribunal’s chairman, Danladi Umar. Al-Hassan, who was deployed to the CCT as his place of primary assignment in 2013, had his last day at the tribunal at Jabi, Abuja, on Friday, following the ministry’s directive rec...

CCT spokesman replaced after backlash on controversial statement April 13 Advertisement Alhassan has been in the news since issuing a statement littered with grammatical blunders and ethnic slurs in defence of his principal, Danladi Umar, who was After he was heavily criticised, Alhassan described the statement as an “ unedited draft” that had not received authorisation. Confirming his recall by the ministry of information on Tuesday, Abdumalik Shaibu, chief registrar of the CCT, told The...

Mr Onyiuke is afraid that his quest for justice can attract another dose of the venom of a “big man”.

When I was taken away to DSS custody, I was still beaten. I was put in a small cage; the same place I was urinating for more than two days.

He wants the commission to make a finding that the assault against him by Umar and his driver, and the subsequent press statement which stated that the tenants of the plaza who came to plead on his behalf were “Biafran boys” was contrary to Section 26 of the Cybercrime Probation and other Offences Act, 2015. The counsel recalled that on March 29, Sagwak directed Umar’s driver to park properly at the plaza, when he began shouting from the back seat that he is the chairman of the CCT. “Th...

Assault: NBA officers push for CCT chairman’s prosecution in fresh petition The NBA leaders say the CCT chair’s conduct sparked a social media frenzy "that brought the legal profession into public odium, ridicule and disrespect." 4 min read Two national officers of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) have petitioned the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) over the recent assault visited on a security guard at an Abuja plaza by the chairman of the Code of Cond...

Spread the love (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I would never have believed that a day would come when a Nigerian judge would engage in street fighting no matter the level of provocation. It was for this reason that I initially thought the video showing a suit-wearing fellow, referred to as a certain powerful judge kicking and slapping a security guard at the Banex Plaza, Abuja last week, was a Nollywood video. But when it was later confirmed that the kick-boxer was actually a serving judge, identified ...

Assault: Groups, activists demand prosecution, removal of CCT chairman The various groups intensified their demand for the prosecution and removal of the CCT chairman for assaulting a security guard in Abuja on March 29. 4 min read Demand by activists and civil society groups for an independent probe, prosecution, and removal of the chairman, Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, for assault, intensified on Tuesday. PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Mr Umar was caught on ca...

Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader We woke up last Monday to hear that "unknown gunmen" in a guerrilla style operation, had attacked the Imo State Police Command Headquarters and the Owerri Correctional Prison, raized scores of vehicles there, and freed detained inmates in their various facilities numbering about 1,800. We were thrown aback, overawed, surprised, and dumb-founded at such an horrific incident. Who did it, and for what purpose? We had hardly done with our question when, in a supersonic mann...

A judge who fights in public cannot earn any respect, writes Sonnie Ekwowusi Last week the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Danladi Umar was found fighting in public. Umar threw decency to the wind and engaged a security guard in an open street brawl at the Banex Plaza, Wuse, Abuja, to the astonishment of the bemused onlookers who could be heard admonishing Umar, “Go away, go away, oga go inside your car, respect yourself, You are not the most powerful person here, they will ...