The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on Monday, played nude videos of a female Diploma student of University of Calabar (UNICAL) in the open court in evidence against Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the institution’s suspended Dean of Faculty of Law. The development occured when the...
Judiciary
A 21-year old man, Justice Ikeocha, on Thursday appeared before a Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly accumulating N304,500 while lodging in a hotel and refused to pay. Ikeocha is facing a two-count charge of obtaining by false pretences and incurring debt by false pretences. He, however, pleaded not...
Mr Aliu Abubakar, father of a nine-year-old boy who was kidnapped, has told an Ikeja High Court that his son was traumatised when he returned home and could not speak. Abubakar said this at the ongoing trial of three men, Lima Auwal, Abdullah Usman and Seidu Abbas, charged...
An Enugu State High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced one Miss Chiamaka Ifezue to death by hanging for killing Miss Ijeoma Nweke, a make-up artist on Nov. 11, 2020 The court, presided over by Justice Kenneth Okpe, in a two-hour judgment, found the accused guilty of killing the deceased...
TKJ (not real name), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)’s star witness, on Tuesday, stated that Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), pressurised her to trade her virginity in exchange for an admission into the institution....
Ladi Adebutu, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the 2023 general election in Ogun, was, on Tuesday, arraigned before a state High Court sitting in Abeokuta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adebutu was arraigned, alongside nine others, even as the Federal Government amended the...
President of the Court of Appeal, Monica Dongban-Mensem, has constituted a tribunal to hear petitions on Saturday’s by-elections in Katsina State. This is contained in a statement signed by the Secretary of the tribunal, Hajiya Aisha Muhammad-Fika in Katsina. ”Pursuant to the powers conferred on the President, Court...
Justice Ibrahim Kala of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday reserved ruling until Feb. 6, on a bail application by a businessman, Lanre Smith, charged with 26,000 dollars fraud. Kala gave the date after hearing arguments from defence and prosecution counsel on the bail application. The...
The Police on Friday arraigned one Olayiwola Aliu at an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan for allegedly being in possession of police uniforms and toy guns. The 30-year old, whose residential address was not provided, has been charged with illegal possession of police uniforms and toy guns. The...
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced one Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, an actress, to six months imprisonment for spraying and stepping on the new Naira notes at a social event in Lagos. Her conviction and sentencing was reported...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the appeal filed by Aishatu Ahmed, also known as Binani, challenging the election of Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa. Delivering judgment, he Justice John Okoro, held that the suit was lacking in merit. Okoro also held that a resident electoral commissioner lacks...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a 45-year-old man, Paul Ndedigwe, to double life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s two children, aged six and seven. Justice Abiola Soladoye, in her judgment, held that prosecution proved two of the three counts brought against Ndedigwe....
An Ikeja High Court has sentenced one Richard Saviour to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his wife’s niece and infecting her with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The victim (name withheld) was aged 14. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that during the trial the State Counsel,...
An officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kazeem Yusuf, on Tuesday told an FCT High Court that N4.6 billion was allegedly diverted to finance the 2015 gubernatorial election in Sokoto State. Yusuf said this while testifying as the second prosecution witness (PW2) in the trial...
A 62-year-old woman, Yemisi Olukemi, who allegedly pushed an Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) staff off a ladder, while on an electricity pole, on Tuesday appeared before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The defendant, whose residential address was not given, is being tried on a...
The Federal High Court Abuja on Tuesday, fixed Feb. 8 to hear a suit challenging the Peoples Democratic Party , (PDP) for failure to convene a National Executive Counsel, (NEC) meeting within the constitutionally stipulated period. A PDP governorship aspirant in Ogun during the 2023 general elections, Mr...
Edo State Chief Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, has constituted the state Local Government Election Petition Appeals tribunal. The Chief Registrar, Mr Benson Osazuwa, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday in Benin. The statement said it was in line with the Edo State Local Government Election...
The Supreme Court reserved judgment in the appeal by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Aisha Dahiru, popularly called Binani, against the governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Fintiri. The tribunal and Court of Appeal had dismissed Binani’s petition challenging the victory of Fintiri in the governorship...
A Hong Kong court has ordered the liquidation of the highly indebted China Evergrande Group. Judge Linda Chan handed down the judgment on Monday in Hong Kong, according to media reports. She said the creditors from abroad had taken the company to court because of its missing several...
Donald Trump’s defamation trial wraps up Friday in New York, showcasing the unprecedented scandal and legal difficulties surrounding the likely Republican candidate for president. Far from hiding his multiple legal problems, Trump has turned courtroom sessions into quasi-campaign events, claiming each trial is part of a Democratic establishment...