Tuesday, 20 December 2016

ASSAULT ON JOURNALIST: COURT ADJOURNS NUJ’S SUIT AGAINST CUSTOMS TILL JAN 12, 2017


Justice AbdulAziz Anka of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi Lagos has fixed January 12, 2017 for accelerated hearing, on the 500 million naira suit filed by the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ against Nigeria Customs Service over the brutal assault of Badagry based Journalist, Yomi Olomofe, in the premises of the Seme Area Command of the Nigerian Customs service on Thursday June 25, 2015.

In a ruling on an application to re-list the fundamental human rights suit filed against the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs, Comptroller Garba M. Ndalati, Deputy Comptroller Emmanuel Nkemdirim, Assistant Comptroller Ibrahim Nuru Turaki and leaders of a notorious border smuggling cabal allegedly led by one SULEIMON MOMOH, Sam Madubuike and two others by the NUJ, Justice Anka directed that ‘the suit must be given accelerated hearing from the next adjourned date on January 12, 2017.

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