Admin l Tuesday, March 14, 2017
IKOYI, Lagos, Nigeria – A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has granted the motion to call oral evidence in respect of a five hundred million naira assault suit filed against the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, by the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, on behalf of a Badagry-based journalist, Otunba Yomi Olomofe.
The presiding judge, Justice Abdulaziz Anka had on Twenty third of last month adjourned ruling on whether or not to allow oral evidence in the Assault case against the Customs and eight others.
Justice Anka had on February 23rd, 2017 ordered the defendants in the case to file their claims accordingly on the pending applications in respect of the substantive suit to enable him deliver his ruling at today’s proceedings.
However, Justice Anka declined the applicant’s motion to file further evidence affidavit. Further hearing on the assault suit has been fixed for April 24, 2017.
The Lagos NUJ had sued the Customs and eight others for the violent battery and assault of Otunba Yomi Olomofe at Seme border customs office on June 25, 2015.
