Kano court upholds journalists’ right to protect sources

A Federal High Court sitting successful Kano has upheld the close of journalists to garbage to disclose their sources of information, but successful matters involving a breach of nationalist information oregon wherever the accusation has a nonstop nexus to a lawsuit earlier the court.

The tribunal besides affirmed its powerfulness to subpoena a writer to springiness grounds successful a lawsuit earlier it. Justice Simon Amobeda, the presiding judge, made the pronouncement during proceedings successful a lawsuit involving Dala Dry Inland Port, betwixt erstwhile Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and the erstwhile Managing Director of the port, Ahmad Rabiu.

The ruling followed arguments betwixt prosecution counsel, S.O. Ekwe, and Abubakar Balarabe Mahmoud, SAN, counsel to the defendant, successful a suit instituted by the Inspector-General of Police against Ahmad Rabiu, laminitis of Dala Dry Inland Port. The constabulary accused Rabiu of being the root of a defamatory and cyberstalking study against Ganduje published by an online media platform.

At the resumed proceeding of the case, with notation fig FHC/KN/CR/378/2025, the prosecution counsel applied to bring Abubakar Ahmadu Maishanu, a newsman with Premium Times, to the witnesser container arsenic the prosecution’s last witness.

The online media level had published a study successful September past twelvemonth titled Investigation: Ganduje embroiled successful Multi-billion naira Kano Dry larboard ownership scandal, which alleged that the...