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New Court of Appeal division opens in Kano
By Mukhtar Yahya Usman
The president, Nigerian Courts of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa on Monday commissioned the 19th division of Court of Appeal in Kano with the aim of ensuring easy access to justice.
KANO FOCUS reports that Justice Abubakar Datti Yahya has been posted to serve as the presiding judge of the appellate court in Kano while justices Habib Adewale Abiru and A. A. Wambai would also sit on appeal in the new division.
Ms Bulkachuwa said the newly created division will curtail the frustrations that petitioners encounter while trying to exhaust their rights to appeal.
She added that “the division will reduce cost of appeal, minimize the frustrations occasioned by distance and make all the processes of filing appellate briefs easier and faster.”
It could be recalled that Mrs Bulkachuwa had on November 2019 approved the setting up of a new division of the appellate court in Kano.
A delegation of the appeal court, led by Justice Abdu Aboki, visited Kano to assess structures donated by the Kano State Government for the take-off of the court.
Mrs Bulkachuwa gave assurances that the expansion mission would continue until the court is satisfied that access to justice has been made a routine exercise.
In a remark Kano state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said the move would enhance access to justice for people in the state, as more than half of the litigations at the appellate court in Kaduna were from Kano State.
Mr Ganduje said Kano deserves to have a division of the appeal court, especially as people were facing difficulties going to Kaduna for their cases.
He assured that Kano state government would give all necessary support to make sure the court conduct its activities better without any hindrance as the establishment would assist in the efficient dispensation of justice.
On his parts Kano state Chief Judge, Justice Nura Sagir, said appeals from Kano and Jigawa states form the bulk of all appeals received at the Kaduna division which previously served both states.
He noted that with the Kano division, distance has considerably minimized and the less privileged will find it easier to pursue their cases beyond the state high courts.
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Mukhtar Yahya Usman
The Kano Ministy of Health says 187 persons are currently infected with COVID-19 in the state.
Kano Focus reports that the ministry tweeted on Monday evening that no new case was recorded from 128 results received on Monday.
Also no patients were discharged.
Statistics from the ministry show that Kano state has so far tested 14,448 persons out of which 1,268 turned out positive.
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However, 1,029 have been discharged while 52 have died.
Meanwhile, the total number of Nigerians infected with COVID-19 has risen to 17, 458 on Monday according to the Nigeria Center for Disease and Control (NCDC).
The NCDC said 29,286 Nigerian residents had tested positive to the virus but 11,828 have been discharged while 654 have died.
Nasiru Yusuf
A Kano state High Court has sentenced one Abdullahi Idris to 14 years imprisonment for raping an 8 years old girl.
Kano Focus reports that the presiding judge, Khadija Sulaiman also directed the convict to pay N50,000 damages to the victim.
Idris, a resident of Sharada in Kano Metropolis had on August 29, 2015 raped an eight year old girl in an uncompleted building.
The offence according to the prosecution counsel Zainab Bala Sani contradicted section 283 of the Penal Code.
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The judge passed the sentence after the prosecution counsels Zainab Bala Sani and Maryam Muhammad Jibrin presented four witnesses while the convict defended himself.
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