By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted a Handball Veteran Chief Benjamin Ewaoche Obe (the Ojemeri 1 of Ojira) leave to challenge the refusal of the President of the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN) Mr. Sam Ocheho and the Secretary General of...
Judiciary
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has upheld the final forfeiture order on the $40 million worth of jewellery seized from the premises of the former Minister for Petroleum, Diezani Allison-Madueke. Justice Festus Obande, who read the judgment on Friday, held that there was no substance in Alison-Madueke’s...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A 20 year old man, identified as Yashua’u Shehu of Atakwanyo village in Kware LGA has been convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for raping a 3 years old girl (name withheld) in Sokoto without option of fine and also handed a five...
A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from further investigating a former governor of the state, Seriake Dickson, on the issue of assets he declared with the Code of Conduct Bureau between 2007 and 2020. The case with suit...
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, on Wednesday, sentenced a 36-year-old man, Saheed Olapade , to two years imprisonment for unlawful possession of human head. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendants are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful possession. The Senior...
Justice Oyindamola Ogala of an Ikeja High Court on Wednesday told a couple, Fortune and Stephen Nwankwo, that they had a case to answer over the death of their housemaid, Ms Joy Adole. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ogala told the Nwankwos to open their defence...
The Independent Investigation Panel investigating human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the police have adjourned for the adoption of written addresses by both the prosecution and defence. This move came up on Tuesday after the police counsel, Mr Fidelis Ogbobe, told...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Adamu Danze, for allegedly receiving N10 million kickback from a contractor handling construction projects in the area council. Danze was arraigned by the Commission before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the...
The President of the community court of Justice, ECOWAS, Edward Amoako Asante, has called for an upward review of the number of justices for the court, to enable it meet up its responsibilities. Giving an account of how the court had fared in the last 20 years, at a...
The arraignment of a former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, has been stalled. Oduah, now a Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial district in the Senate, was to be arraigned on a 25-count charge, along with 8 other defendants,...
A Federal High Court, Abuja fixed Dec. 10 for judgement in a suit filed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) against Sen. Andy Ubah, the All Progressives Congress(APC)’s Candidate in the Nov. 6 Anambra governorship election. Justice Taiwo Taiwo fixed the date after taking arguments from counsel to the...
By YUSUFU IDEGU, Jos – The Chairman of the Tax Appeal Tribunal, North Central Zone, Barr Richard Bala has said the presence of the tax tribunal has minimize impunity in the relationship between tax payers and tax authority across the country. Bala made the remarks in his welcome address...
Chidinma Ojukwu, the first defendant in the case of murder of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, left the apartment, where the alleged murder occurred, a night before Ataga’s body was found. A security guard at the apartment said this on Wednesday while testifying before a Lagos high...
A Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, on Wednesday ordered that a 38-year-old man, Gbenga Asaju, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a six-year-old girl. The police arraigned Asaju, whose address was not given on a two-count charge of defilement and breach of peace. Police...
File photo of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi. The trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi, a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), and three others for an alleged N8.5billion fraud continued on Tuesday, with the Economic and...
Former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has sought for an order of a Federal High Court, Abuja, extending his stay in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on medical ground. Adoke, through his lawyer, Edidiong Usungurua, made the application, on Tuesday, while moving...
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has arrived in the Lagos High Court in Ikeja. The EFCC Boss is in court to continue his testimony on how an oil marketer, Abubakar Peters, and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited allegedly forged documents to obtain...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar, – The legal battle for the control of the management and administration of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS) World Wide, Initiated by Helen Johnson Udo aka Queen Mother (deceased) against the registered Trustee of the organization, being headed by His Holiness Olumba Olumba...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday adjourned the trial of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, for N338.8 million money laundering. Ikuforiji was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside his former Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi, on a...
The Presidential Committee on Correctional Reforms and Decongestion has set free five inmates and recommended three for bail from the Nigerian Maximum Security Correctional Centre in Ilorin, Kwara. A statement by Mrs Modupe Ogundoro, a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Justice, said the committee was led by...