A divorce-seeking businesswoman, Olayinka Ajanaku, told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday that her husband was fond of making their 10-year-old son gulp alcohol limitlessly. Olayinka told the court that the greatest mistake of her life was falling in love with her estranged husband’s Akinola...
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The U. S. Central District Court in California has again postponed the sentencing of a Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi, for the multi-million-dollar fraud charges he has pleaded guilty to. Arrested in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate (UAE) in June 2020, and subsequently flown to...
A Trader, Sandra Iyenanye, on Tuesday approached an Igando Customary Court, seeking dissolution of the long distance marriage to her husband Mr Vestus Iyenanye. The Petitioner, a resident of No. 8, Jaiyeoba St., urged the court to grant her a divorce from her husband on grounds of abandonment, cheating...
The money laundering trial of a former Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, was on Monday, stalled before a Federal High Court in Lagos as the trial court did not sit. The trial which was fixed for continuation on Monday, could not proceed as the trial judge Justice Chukwujekwu...
The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal today July 1, 2022 convicted and sentenced Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, senator representing Delta North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, to 7 years imprisonment. The Appeal Court also ordered that his two companies, Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday, granted the request of the mother of late 14-year-old student of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Karen-Happuch Akpagher to be joined in the suit filed by the school. The school filed the suit seeking to stop the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC)...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Court of Appeal Sitting in Gombe State on Friday sentenced the former General Manager of Maiduguri Flour Mills, Ma’aji Shettima Arfo to 7 years imprisonment. Alhaji Arfo was sentenced to jail for stealing millions of naira belonging to the Borno State Government and...
A Federal High Court in Kano, presided over by Justice Abdullahi Liman, on Friday restrained the Kano State Government from borrowing N10 billion for the installation of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras. A coalition of NGOs, the Kano First Forum (KFF) filed a motion exparte dated June 27, sworn by...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi A 70-year old man and two others have been sentenced to death by stoning for engaging in homosexuality in Ningi, Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The convicted persons: Mal. Haruna (70), Abdullahi Abubakar Beti (30) and Kamilu Ya’u (20), were sentenced by an Islamic...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the release of the official details of David Nwamini Ukpo to a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the order in a judgement delivered on Friday, directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS),...
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday awarded a musician, Liberty Williams, popularly call ”Pupayannis” N20 million damages against MTN over copyright infringement. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Abuja-based musician, in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2017 instituted in 2017 by the copyright...
The trial of suspected invaders of the residence of Mrs Mary Odili, retired Justice of the Supreme Court, was on Thursday, stalled in a Federal High Court, Abuja due to the absence of the police counsel, Mathew Omosun. Upon resumed trial, Usman Jubril, who was counsel for the 6th,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over the allegations against the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad. This is contained in a statement issued by...
The Federal High Court (FHC) will, on July 25, begin its annual vacation. The FHC Assistant Director of Information, Dr Catherine Oby-Christopher, in a statement to newsmen on Wednesday, said the vacation would end on Sept. 16. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the statement was titled:...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to grant a motion, seeking an order compelling Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting Bola Tinubu as the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s candidate for the 2023 presidential election. The court also declined to grant the prayer, asking INEC from recognising...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the application for bail by the detained leader of the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Justice Binta Nyako, in her ruling on Tuesday, said the suit was a gross abuse of the court process and an attempt to...
President Muhammadu Buhari says he is constrained to accept the resignation of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Muhammad Tanko on health grounds The president stated this while swearing in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as acting Chief Justice of Nigeria in the State House, Abuja, on Monday. Buhari said:...
Hearing in a suit filed by former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and others could not proceed on Monday due to the presiding judge’s absence. Though the two separate suits were on number five and six on the day’s cause list, Justice...
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa (UBA) and...
Following the resignation of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to swear in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) on Monday. Recall that Muhammad resigned his appointment on health grounds and in the face of loss of...