The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned Bolarinwa Abiodun, a fake Army General. Abiodun was docked before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos. The suspect is facing a 13-count charge including obtaining money by false pretence, forgery of...
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Claimants have prayed a Federal Competition and Consumer Protection (FCCPC) Tribunal to commit the Managing Director of MultiChoice Nigeria Ltd, John Ugbe, to prison for alleged disregard to its order. The claimants filed a suit filed against MultiChoice Nigeria Limited over its recent decision to increase its tariffs and...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, on May 30, re-arraign former National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, on allegations bordering on N400 million fraud. Metuh is expected to be re-arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja. The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has kicked against an interim order made ex parte by the Awka Division of the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Hyeladzira A. Nganjiwa granting the former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano leave to travel abroad to the United...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a fundamental enforcement rights suit filed by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Justice Inyang Ekwo dismissed the suit on Thursday after the counsel for the NDLEA, Joseph Sunday, prayed the court...
A Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday, exonerated the Federal Government on the allegation that leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was forcefully abducted abroad to stand his trial. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, held that rendition for the purpose of criminal investigation...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has dismissed a suit by oil and gas services firm, Marine Assets and Offshore Equipment Limited, to stop its investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Bolaji Olajuwon, in a judgment, said that the suit instituted by the company and...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the government to comply with the 35% affirmative action for women, which allows women occupy 35% of all appointments. Delivering judgement on Wednesday, Justice Donatus Okorowo, said the Federal Government had the obligation to implement the 35 per cent affirmative action,...
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, has ordered the remand of 107 year old Furera Abubakar, and Isah Hassan, 17, in a correctional centre for allegedly plucking out the eye of a 12-year-old. The Prosecution counsel, Mr Lamido Soron-Dinki, told the court on Wednesday, that the defendants committed the offence...
An hotel manager, who allegedly raped a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member in Osogbo, will appear in court on Tuesday. SP Yemisi Opalola, the Police Spokesperson, Osun Command, Nigeria Police, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview. Opalola said that police...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s prosecution witness (PW1), Umar Babangida, on Thursday, linked former Director of Legal, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Grace Taiga’s link in the alleged 9.6 billion dollars Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID) scandal. Babangida, who is the Head, Special Investigation Unit on P&ID in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, discharged and acquitted Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of money laundering charge. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a judgement, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt....
A Competition and Consumer Protection (CCP) Tribunal sitting in Abuja has restrained Multi-Choice Nigeria Limited from increasing its tariffs and cost of products and services scheduled to begin on April 1. The three-member tribunal, presided over by Thomas Okosun, gave the order following an ex-parte motion moved by Festus...
The Governors of the 36 states of the federation have appealed the Federal High Court judgment which dismissed their suit challenging the planned deduction of $418 million from the Federation Account. The money is meant to settle debts owed consultants engaged by state and local governments on the Paris...
Mrs Debest Osarumwense has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in Benin, the Edo State capital. She is the mother of Endurance Osarumwense, an alleged internet fraudster a.k.a. ‘Yahoo boy’. Justice M. S. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court in Benin delivered judgment on Tuesday. The Economic and Financial...
The Police in Kwara on Tuesday arraigned two brothers, Abdullateef Adekanye and Yusuf Adekanye, before an Ilorin Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly exhuming their father’s corpse for ritual. The defendants, whose house addresses were not given, are facing two count charges of criminal conspiracy and exhuming human carcass from grave....
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has fixed June 9 to hear a motion to grant leave to appeal against the ruling discharging and acquitting Amaju Pinnick and others in a criminal charge filed against them. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who fixed the date, said he would hear the motion...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, declined to grant the bail application of suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that the the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had placed sufficient evidence before the court to refuse the bail request. Justice Nwite also...
The Erelu Okin, Pearl Chidinma Ogbolu, has revealed that she was fined over one million naira which was paid in full for distributing kegs of petrol as souvenirs at her installation party. Mrs. Ogbolu, who disclosed this via her official Instagram page, expressed gratitude to God that she is...
The Supreme Court has upheld the de-registration of 22 political parties carried out by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The parties were among 74 others scrapped by INEC in 2020 following their poor performance in previous general elections. Justice Ejembi Eko on Friday set aside a judgment of...