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Nigeria's former President, Goodluck Jonathan has listed seven reasons why he want to be shielded from appearing as a witness in the ongoing corruption trial of ex-Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh at an Abuja Federal High Court. Metuh, who is standing...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered President Goodluck Jonathan to appear before it to testify as a witness in defence of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, Channels Television reports. Justice Okon Abang has therefore...

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan may have turned down a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh's subpoena as his defence witness. His lawyer, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), told Justice Okon Abang that he had written Jonathan to that effect but...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday ordered the Department of State Service to produce the detained former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), in court to enable him testify in defence of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa...

A Federal High Court in Abuja today dismissed two applications by Olisa Metuh, former Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Presiding Judge, Justice John Abang ruled that the application to stay proceedings in the matter and challenging the refusal to release his...

Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, is on admission at the National Hospital Abuja, after he collapsed during church service on Sunday. His lawyer, Mr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday that Metuh was rushed to the...

Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, has appealed to those accusing him of being one of the sponsors of the dare-devil militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to leave him alone, urging the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal...

The fraud case of embattled ex PDP spokesman, Mr Olisah Metuh, has been adjourned till Oct. 27 and Oct. 31 by a Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Okon Abang at about 4:45 p.m said that the case had to be adjourned because he would not have judicial time to hear it. “The matter was...

Former Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh has disclosed that talks have begun between his legal team and officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to facilitate his return of N400million traced to him from defence funds. The funds which were...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic , Olisa Metuh, has been admitted at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, his lawyer Emeka Etiaba (SAN) said on Friday at the resumption of proceedings in his trial at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Etiaba, who tendered a letter dated June 8, 2016...

Dayo Adeyeye has been appointed as the new National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He replaces Olisa Metuh, who'd announced that he's no longer interested in the position once his tenure expires. Metuh is currently on trial over a N400m fraud. Adeyeye was appointed...

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has said the proposal by former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, to return N400m is not enough to quash his case. Metuh’s lead defence counsel, Dr. Onyechi...

The Lagos state chapter of Peoples Democratice Party, PDP on Sunday appealed to the Cheif Justice of Nigeria to allow Olisa Metuh enjoy his fundamental human right by traveling abroad for medicals in the spirit of democracy and freedom. Metuh is currently facing a seven count charge of money...

The Lagos Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has appealed to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, to wade into the refusal to allow it’s embattled National spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh to travel abroad for medical treatment. According to Daily Post, the...

The immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh’s lead defence counsel, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), has said his client has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he is willing to return the N400m he allegedly received from the...

Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja ruled on Wednesday that he lacked jurisdiction to release Olisa Metuh’s passport. The counsel to Metuh had on May 23 informed the court of an application dated May 16 seeking permission to allow Mr. Metuh travel to the United Kingdom for...

A defence witness, Mr. Anthony Okeke, in the ongoing trial of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, told a Federal High Court in Abuja that former President Goodluck Jonathan authorized the sum of N400m to counter the opposition who dented his image...

Olisa Metuh, spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is currently at the emergency ward of the national hospital, Abuja. TheCable reports that the PDP spokesman vomited several times in his car on his way to the federal high court, Abuja, on Thursday. “Metuh was rushed to hospital...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja said on Monday that it would no longer hear applications for a stay of proceedings in the trials of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki; a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.); and the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic...

Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh to open his defence in his trial for money laundering. Justice Abang gave the directive after dismissing a number of Metuh’s applications...