Journalists covering the ongoing trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and others were, on Tuesday, restrained from coming into Court 10 of the Federal High Court, Abuja, venue of the proceeding. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order following an application to the effect by Mr Sunday Joseph, counsel for...
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) A U.S. ex-convict, Kolawole Erinle, charged with alleged 1.4 million dollars internet fraud on Monday denied the charges before an Ikeja Special Offences Court. Erinle, a real estate businessman and general contractor for Lafarge Cement told the court that he did not conspire with one Edward Dada (...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, filed a motion for stay of execution of the ruling by a Federal High Court, Lagos on 14 property and the sum of N400 million allegedly linked to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Justice Nicholas Oweibo had, on April 26,...
Ademoye Adewale, a cotton candy vendor, contracted by Chrisland School to prepare snacks for its students during an inter-house sports has told a corona inquest that he strongly believed that Whitney Adeniran was not electrocuted by his tools. Adewale, during his cross-examination, told the Coroner, Mrs Oyenike Fajana on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said the social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha), charged with N6 billion money laundering had been re-arrested. The EFCC counsel, Mr Suleiman Suleiman, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that the prosecution in collaboration with its international partners had...
The Federal High Court, Abuja has restrained the National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC) from further publishing a disclaimer, denying the issuance of certificate dated Jan.6, 2003 to the Enugu state Governor-elect, Mr Peter Mbah. Ruling on an ex parte application moved by Mr Emeka Ozoani, SAN, on behalf of...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Justice O.O.Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced one Abdulmalik Abdullateef to one year imprisonment for stealing. The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had, on April 27, 2023, arraigned 21-year-old Abdullateef...
A court in China has sentenced a 78-year-old U.S. citizen to life in prison on espionage charges. John Shing-Wan Leung, who has a U.S. passport and permanent residence in Hong Kong, was convicted by the court in the eastern city of Suzhou, near Shanghai, on Monday. Leung’s assets worth...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has sought partnership with Ethiopian Airlines Corporation, towards a successful conduct of its 2023 Annual General Conference. The President of NBA, Mr Yakubu Maikyau (SAN) who visited Ethiopian Airlines in Abuja on Saturday, said that the choice of the air carrier was in recognition...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A senior advocate of Nigeria, Murtala Abdul-Rasheed has condemned the venue of the Cross River State Election Petition Tribunal venue over what he called deteriorating state of the High Court. He described the Tribunal venue as very shameful and disturbing. The state High Court...
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has fixed July 3 for a case filed against Nigeria’s central government over the delay in the passage of the Bill on independent candidacy. The case was instituted by two Non-Governmental Organisations who are asking the court to hold Nigeria responsible for the...
Justice Hamza Muazu of an Abuja High Court on Friday held that the court has jurisdiction to entertain suit filed by some members of the Labour Party (LP). The suit is seeking the removal of the chairman of the party, Julius Abure, the National Organising Secretary, Mr Clement Ojukwu...
A divorce-seeking husband, Oyeyinka Adegoke, on Friday passionately pleaded with a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to save him from his wife, Wuraola, whom he alleged was diabolic. Adegoke stated in his testimony that his fortune had nosedived since he exchanged marital vows with Wuraola. He added...
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja barring the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) from imposing fines on erring broadcast stations. While some lawyers and stakeholders hailed the decision of the court others have argued that the judgment “is ill conceived, dead on...
A Magistrate Court in Zuba, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, yesterday adjourned the trial of Uche Aigbe, Pastor of the House on the Rock Refuge Church, Wuye, over alleged unlawful possession of firearms. This follows the changing of the legal representative of Pastor Aigbe, PRNigeria gathered....
Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, SAN, says his duty as the Chief Law Officer of the Federation stood out as the most challenging period of his professional career. Malami said this at the launch and public presentation of his Autobiography titled `Traversing The Thorny Terrain of Nigeria’s Justice Sector: My...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday sentenced a 26-year-old electrician, Sunday George, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye held that prosecution sufficiently proved the charge of defilement against the convict. Soladoye...
The National Industrial Court on Thursday fixed May 30 to deliver judgment in the suit filed by the Federal Government against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In the suit, the federal government dragged ASUU before the court to determine the substantive suit filed during the 2022 ASUU’s...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, suspended the managing director, directors and secretary of the Board of Seplat Energy Plc, pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice filed by three aggrieved shareholders. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, also gave an order compelling the Securities and...
A Sharia Court in Kaduna on Thursday, ordered a woman, Fatima Muhammad to return the N80,000 received as dowry in exchange for divorce. The Judge, Malam Muhammad Adamu-Shehu, gave the ruling after the complainant told the court that she wanted to redeem herself from the marriage and was ready...