The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has resigned. Sources said that Justice Muhammad resigned on Sunday night, citing ill-health as the reason for his decision. Information also has it that arrangements are ongoing to swear in the next most senior justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Olukayode...
Judiciary
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday nabbed an alleged fake lawyer, Aladejobi and Aladejobi & Co in Justice Mojisola Dada’s Special offences Court in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the alleged fake lawyer according to findings was said to have...
An FCT High Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, on Tuesday ordered a 21-year-old student, Babatunde Samuel, to clean the premises of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for two weeks for internet fraud. Samuel pleaded guilty to cheating filed by the EFCC and begged the court for leniency. Delivering...
A Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, okayed a N10 million fresh suit filed by a lawyer, Festus Onifade, against MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, the operators of DStv and Gotv. Onifade, in the amended originating summons, also sought the order of the tribunal directing...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged Macmillan Nigeria Publisher, Prof. Adesanya Adelekan, and one Bola Fasasi with $156, 700 book fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that EFCC arraigned Fasasi on Monday in Lagos and said that Adelekan was at large. The defendants are...
The trial of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode could not go on at the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday due to the absence of his lead counsel, Mr Ahmed Raji, SAN. At the resumed hearing, the Prosecution Counsel, Mr Farouk Abdullah told the court that the business of...
An Aiyetoro High Court in Ogun has sentenced one, Adelake Bara, to death by hanging on Monday for shooting and killing one Olaleye Oke, whom he accused of having illicit affairs with one of his three wives The court convicted Bara on a one-count charge of murder. Delivering judgment,...
The alleged culpable homicide suit against Peter Nwachukwu, husband of the late gospel singer, Osinachi in a Federal Capital Territory High Court on Monday, was stepped down in order for his lawyers to align themselves to represent him. When the matter slated for hearing before Justice Njideka Nwosu-Iheme came...
A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 34-year-old native doctor and driver, who resides Behind Mobile Barracks, Makurdi, Benue State for allegedly defiling a minor who came for treatment. The Magistrate, Mr. Vincent Kor, didn’t take Iordye Edwin’s plea for want of jurisdiction. Kor ordered that the defendant...
The absence of social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha), on Thursday stalled his trial in an Ikeja Special Offence Court for alleged N6 billion money laundering. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on on June 10, accused Mompha of...
Two men, Yetunde Awaye, 37, and Mohammed Afisu, 41, who allegedly stole a Rolex chronometer wristwatch worth nine million Naira, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The defendants, whose addresses were not given, are standing trial on a three-count charge of conspiracy, stealing and receiving stolen goods....
The Department of State Security (DSS) on Wednesday arraigned Mr Bara Ogidi, at Federal High Court Yenagoa over an alleged false report against the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr Simbi Wabote. Ogidi, a Bayelsa based publisher of an online new media, Tracknews, is...
A UK court has ruled against Nigeria in the $1.7bn suit against JP Morgan Chase Bank over the transfer of proceeds from the sale of OPL 245. Judge Sara Cockerill of the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales Commercial Court held on Tuesday that the Nigerian government...
A Kano High Court fixed July 28 for judgment in the case of a school proprietor, Abdulmalik Tanko, charged with alleged murder of five-year-old pupil. The Kano State Government filed five counts of criminal conspiracy, attempt to kidnap, abetment, kidnapping and concealing dead body against Tanko, Hashimu Isyaku, 37,...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, dismissed the money laundering suit filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) against Mrs. Ochuko Momoh. Momoh is the wife of a former Managing Director of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, Haruna. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a...
The Federal High Court in Ebonyi has nullified the rescheduled People Democratic Party’s (PDP), primaries in Ebonyi and declared Dr Ifeanyi-Chukwuma Odii as authentic gubernatorial candidate of the party for the 2023 polls. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the party rescheduled and conducted a fresh primaries...
Popular Kannywood actress, Hadiza Gabon, has been dragged before a Shari’a Court in Kaduna by a 48-year-old civil servant, Bala Musa, on Monday, for allegedly refusing to marry him. The complainant told the court that he had been in a relationship with the actress and she promised to marry...
Some members of the All Progressives Congress, under the aegis of Gaskiya Youth Movement, are asking the federal high court in Abuja to disqualify the former Lagos State Governor and presidential aspirant, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, from the party’s presidential primary, scheduled for Monday 6th and 7th. The members made...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Over 200 students from the Engineering Faculty of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have dragged the university management, and five others to court, claiming over N500 million as general damages and special expenses for breach of trust and others. The case which was instituted by...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday fixed June 22 to hear a suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the retrial of Chief Olisa Metuh, former National Publicity Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The court fixed the date following the EFCC’s appeal at...