A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed Nov. 8 for hearing a suit challenging the emergence of Kola Abiola as the People’s Redemption Party (PRP)’s presidential candidate. Justice Ahmed fixed the date after a consensus agreement by counsel for the parties in the suit. The News Agency of...
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The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has said that about 10 witnesses would testify in a suit filed against Prof. Obiajulu Obikeze and four others over allegations bordering on forgery of chieftaincy documents. Counsel for the AGF, Ewere Aliemeke, made this known on Friday before Justice Inyang...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed Nov. 15 for judgment in a suit filed by Sen. Yusuf Yusuf seeking the nullification of the Taraba All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary held on May 26. Yusuf, a senator representing Taraba Central, who was also a governorship aspirant in the...
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has appealed the Federal High Court’s judgment that nullified his nomination as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the July 16, 2022 governorship election in the state. This is contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Ismail Omipidan,...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 35-year-old man, Monday Endurance, to Kirikiri Correctional Center for allegedly impregnating his teenage step daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B. O Osunsanmi did not take the plea of the defendant, but ordered that the case file be forwarded to Lagos...
The Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal has fixed Oct. 13 for the hearing of all preliminary motions arising from a petition filed by Gov. Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Oyetola filed the petition to contest the declaration of Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),...
A Lagos High Court on Tuesday heard an audio recording of a phone conversation between Chidinma Ojukwu and Abubakar Mohammed, a security guard at the apartment where Mr Usifo Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, was allegedly murdered. Ojukwu is standing trial for Ataga’s murder before a...
A Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia, is to deliver judgment in the extraordinary rendition suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to Kanu, had filed the suit before the court in March. The News Agency of...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja has awarded the sum of N540 million in damages to Prophet Emmanuel Omale against a commercial bank over alleged negligence and defamation. Justice Yusuf Halilu on Tuesday held that the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) breached its fiduciary duty...
A Kano State High Court on Tuesday, ordered the State government to provide an interpreter for a Chinese national, Geng Quangrong, 47, charged with alleged murder of his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the defendant is facing a count charge of culpable...
After evading prosecution for over eight years, the Chairman of Zinox Group, Leonard Stanley Ekeh; wife, Chioma, and 11 other suspects in alleged N170.3 million contract fraud have finally been charged to court. On September 9, 2022, Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana, filed a 17-count charge against the suspects...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, nullified the nomination of Governor Isiaka Oyetola of Osun as the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s candidate in the July 16 governorship election. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a judgment, nullified Oyetola and his deputy governorship candidate, Benedict Alabi, on grounds that Gov. Mai...
Mr Ike Ifeanyi, on Friday told a Makurdi Upper Area Court in Benue that his wife, Lovina, had him arrested for stealing her underwear. In his divorce petition, Ifeanyi , said that his wife was ill-tempered and too petty. ”I married Lovina in 2019 under the Traditional Native Laws...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday dismissed an appeal by Ann Nwanyibuife Agom-Eze and confirmed the Senatorial candidacy of Governor David Umahi. The Court of Appeal set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court and all the orders it made. It also held that the High...
The Supreme Court has dismissed the suit challenging the authenticity of Ademola Adeleke’s candidacy in the just concluded Osun State Governorship Election in South-West Nigeria. The suit was instituted by Dotun Babayemi, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun. In a judgement delivered by Justice...
An Upper Area Court in Makurdi on Thursday ordered that a 45-year-old man, James Beetse for alleged attempt to sell his daughter for N20million.. The police charged Beetse alongside his friend, Dooyum Agisha with criminal conspiracy, abduction and child trafficking in Benue. Magistrate Dooshima Ikpambese did not take the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, admitted Gabriel Nathaniel, a staff in the Accounts Department of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), to a N100 million bail with a surety in the like sum. Justice Zainab Abubakar, in a ruling, ordered that the surety must have a landed...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Wednesday, revoked the N100 million bail granted to the Briton, James Nolan, a director in the Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID). Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a ruling, issued a bench warrant against Nola. Justice Mohammed ordered that the British national should...
…..Directs INEC to publish his name By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – The Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State Capital has declared Bashir Sheriff Machina as the APC’s authentic senatorial candidate for Yobe North in the coming 2023 National Assembly elections. The court also directed INEC to accept...
Mr Lekan Folorunso, a father of two told a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan that he sold marijuana to provide for his two children and wife. Folorunso made the confession on Wednesday in his counter argument against his wife’s allegation of being irresponsible. ”I also beg on...