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The former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has expressed surprise about how he was suddenly told that he had been removed from office without doing any wrong. He did not name the personalities involved in the drama. Onnoghen said nobody told him anything about his offence when he was told that he had been removed. Onnoghen, who clocked 70 on Tuesday, his projected retirement day if he had run his tenure as the CJN and judicial career in full, spoke at a low-key birthday dinner held at his Asokoro, Abuja home. Acting on a controversial ex parte order issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), suspended Onnoghen as the CJN on January 26, 2019 and replaced him with the incumbent CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, then in acting capacity. Onnoghen never returned to office till his conviction by the CCT and his voluntary retirement in April 2019. “How can you just wake up one morning and they say you have been removed from offi

Lawsuit alleges Trump violated ban on presidents accepting gifts, payments from foreign gov't without Congress consent. A flag is waved outside Trump International Hotel during a protest against President Trump  A United States appeals court has revived a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting from the US presidency through payments by foreign governments and domestic states to his  hotel in  Washington, DC. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 9-6 to reject President Trump's bid to block claims by the state of Maryland and the city of Washington, DC, alleging violations of the US Constitution's anti-corruption provisions. The lawsuit alleged violations of the constitution's "emoluments" clauses - rarely tested in courts - that ban a president from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments without congressional consent. The plaintiffs seek a court order directing the presid

Cedric Herrou, an olive farmer in southern France, had been charged with 'facilitation of irregular entry'. French farmer Cedric Herrou helped about 200 migrants cross the border from Italy and was also convicted of sheltering some 50 Eritreans in a disused railway building  A French court on Wednesday scrapped all charges against a man who helped refugees and migrants enter the country illegally, the final chapter in a groundbreaking case that defined so-called "crimes of solidarity". Cedric Herrou, an olive farmer in southern France who helped about 200 migrants cross the border from Italy, was given a four-month suspended sentence in August 2017. He had brought the destitute migrants home and set up a camp for them. He was also convicted of sheltering some 50 Eritreans in a disused railway building. France's Constitutional Council later said Herrou's actions were not a crime under the "principle of fr