Prof. Zainab-Duke Abiola, widow of late MKO Abiola has dragged the Nigeria Police Force, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Alkali and Insp. Teju Moses to court for alleged defamation. Prof. Abiola, through her counsel, Mr Tawo Tawo, SAN, in her statement of claim, averred that she was framed...
Judiciary
A 26-year-old man, Owolabi Olabisi, has been arrested by detectives of the Family Support Unit, Surulere Police Division, for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s eight-year-old girl. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspect committed the offence on Jan. 18 at Ojuelegba, Surulere area of Lagos State. It...
The Supreme Court on Friday restored former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godwin Akpabio as the Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC for Akwa Ibom North Senatorial District. In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, the Apex Court upheld the judgment of the Federal High Court...
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) appeal on Kebbi House of Reps candidate nomination. The Apex Court voided and dismissed the nomination of one Kabir Jega whose name was said to have been fraudulently submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the...
A mother of two, Aishat Zakaria, told a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan, to dissolve her marriage to husband, Taofeek, on grounds that he maltreats her. The petitioner, in her application for divorce, called her husband a wicked man who forced her to observe ‘marathon fast’ during...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, set aside the Nov. 4, 2022 interim forfeiture order on 40 landed property linked to Sen. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, said he had found that the application for forfeiture filed by the Economic and...
Appeal Court, Abuja, has affirmed the candidacy of Akanimo Udofia as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom in the forthcoming general elections. A three-member panel of justices headed by Justice Elfreda Williams – Dawodu, find merit in an appeal filed by Udofia, against...
Asiya Ganduje, a daughter to Kano State Governor, on Thursday, before an Upper Shari’a Court insisted on returning the N50,000 dowry paid by her husband, Inuwa Uba, to end their 16-year-old marriage. The plaintiff was in court seeking the dissolution of her marriage through Islamic means (Khul’i) as she...
A Zuba Upper Area Court on Thursday sentenced a 37-year-old trader, Masiru Sadiq to ten years imprisonment for sodomising a nine-year-old boy. Sadiq of Kamkara Zuba, Abuja was convicted and sentenced after pleading guilty to unnatural offence. He begged the court to forgive him and temper justice with mercy....
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday struck out a suit instituted against the Federal Government challenging alleged uneven distribution of appointments into the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, said the suit was struck out on grounds that the plaintiff, Mrs RitaLori Ogbebor, a...
The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed April 5, to deliver judgment in the alleged N2 billion fraud charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) against former Head of Service, Mr Stephen Oronsaye. The trial judge Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date on Wednesday after counsel...
A trader, Sarata Olagunju, on Thursday told a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan to grant her divorce on grounds that her husband, Adewale, said the union was being controlled by demonic spirits. In her counter argument against her husband, Oagunju said:”he told me that there were demonic...
A 36-year-old civil servant, Moses Saka was docked in an Upper Area Court Gwagwalada, Abuja for allegedly using ‘juju’ on four-year-old girl. The police charged Saka and Joseph, at large with criminal conspiracy and unlawful juju. The Prosecution Vounsel, Abdullahi Tanko, told the court that the complainant Mr Labaran...
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that two State Shari’a Court judges, a cashier and 16 other financial registrars be remanded in a correction centre for alleged N580.2 million theft. The police charged Bashir Kurawa, Saadatu Umar, Tijjani Abdullahi, Maryam Jibrin-Garba, Shamsu Sani and Hussaina Imam with...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, struck out a suit seeking the disqualification of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Bola Tinubu over the nomination of Muslim-Muslim candidacy for the 2023 presidential election. Delivering judgment, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, struck out the suit which was instituted by an Abuja...
An application filed by the DCP Abba Kyari and three other suspended police officers seeking to quash the criminal charges against them has been adjourned until March 22 for ruling. Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court, Abuja fixed the date after counsel for the National Drug Law...
A Dei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja, on Wednesday ordered a 28-year-old man, Ana’s Ibrahim, to sweep the community central mosque for six months for accommodating thieves. Ibrahim, of Zuba fruit market Abuja, pleaded guilty to belonging to gang of thieves and begged the court for leniency. The...
A Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Jimoh Moshood, told an FCT High Court, Kubwa that a former Senator, Isah Misau defamed the integrity and reputation of the police. Moshood, DCP, Administration, Oyo state police command made this known while being led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Bello Abu....
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele has asked the Appeal court to set aside an order of a lower court compelling his appearance in a 53 million dollars judgment debt proceedings. Emefielr’ Counsel, Mr Joe Agi, SAN, had obtained a judgment summons against...
A Dei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday ordered the remand of a 22-year old domestic help, Abigail Sunday who allegedly stole her employer’s diamond ring. The Police charged Sunday, a resident of behind Duru Dawaki with theft but she pleaded not guilty. The Judge, Saminu Suleiman, ordered...