The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, accused Paul Erokoro, SAN, counsel to James Nolan, a director in Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID), of deploying a delay tactic in the ongoing trial. EFCC lawyer, Bala Sanga, made the allegation before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal...
Judiciary
A High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered that a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominnikoron, be remanded in a correctional centre. The Lagos State Government charged Ominnikoron with four counts bordering on conspiracy, murder and rape. Justice Sherifat Sonaike ordered that the defendant be remanded in the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, will on Friday, deliver judgment in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River. The PDP, through its counsel Emmanuel Ukala, SAN, had filed the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021 before Justice Taiwo Taiwo to seek for an...
A Federal High Court Abuja, on Monday sacked no fewer than 20 members of the Cross River State House of Assembly for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). The judgment was given by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the federal High Court...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Monday, struck out the motion filed by sacked Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi, seeking for a stay of execution of the March 8 judgment. Justice Inyang Ekwo struck out the motion after Chukwuma Ma-Chukwu Ume, SAN, counsel for Umahi and his deputy,...
The Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, on Friday, nullified Section 84(12) of the newly amended Electoral Act, saying it was a violation of the provisions of the Constitution. The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, held that the section was unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, null, void...
Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of an Ikeja High Court on Friday fixed May 6 to rule on an application for virtual testimony in the trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi for alleged N754 million fraud. The application was filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The News Agency of Nigeria...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has discharged and acquitted a former Chief of Air Staff, retired Air Marshal Mohammed Umar of diverting N66 million from the account of the Nigerian Air Force, (NAF). The court, however, ordered Umar to refund N57 million to the Federal Government or else his...
An FCT High Court in Kubwa has fixed Friday to hear a suit seeking to stop the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Convention. The plaintiff in the matter, Salisu Umoru, dragged APC, the Chairman Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and Gov. Mai Mala Buni and the Independent National Electoral...
Popular Nollywood actress, Chioma Toplis, has been remanded at the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Afara over defamation charge. Actress Toplis was dragged before Magistrate Court in Umuahia, Abia for allegedly using her Facebook page to post “a malicious publication” against the Chairman of Abia State Traditional Prime Ministers Council, High Chief...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, threatened to strike out a fundamental enforcement rights suit filed by suspended DCP Abba Kyari against National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Justice Inyang Ekwo, gave the warning following the delay by Kyari’s lawyer, Cynthia Ikena, to serve NDLEA counsel, Joseph Sunday,...
A woman identified as wife of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, on Monday, fainted at the Federal High Court in Abuja. She slumped on the ground shortly after trial Justice Emeka Nwite deferred ruling on applications that DCP Kyari and six other persons facing drug...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, fixed March 28 for ruling in a bail application filed by suspended DCP Abba Kyari and others. Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after counsel to the prosecution and defence argued their applications for and against the bail plea. The News Agency...
Suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendant, ACP Sunday Ubia, on Monday, asked a Federal High Court, Abuja, to admit them to bail. Kyari and Ubia, through their lawyer, Mahmud Magaji, told Justice Emeka Nwite while arguing the bail application Magaji, who said the offences with which Kyari and...
A Yaba Magistrates’ court in Lagos on Friday, ordered that a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Omininikoron, be remanded for 30 days in Ikoyi custodial centre for alleged murder and rape of 22-year-old girl, Oluwabamise Ayankole. Details coming soon….
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday prayed the Federal High Court, Abuja to transfer the fresh trial of former Abia governor and two others in an alleged N7.1 billion fraud to Lagos. The application seeking the transfer was brought pursuant to Sections 19, 22 and 45...
An Upper Area Court in Makurdi on Thursday ordered that a herbalist, Eze Okereke, 41, be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged defiling a 15-year-old deaf-mute neighbour’s daughter. The police charged Okereke with defilement. However, when the case came up for mention no plea was taking for want...
No fewer than 20 lawyers have expressed desire to defend the suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Musa Shafiu, a legal practitioner, who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday, on behalf of other lawyers, said the lawyers are ready to defend Kyari in a suit filed by the National Drug Law...
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has fixed March 31, June 8 and June 9 for trial of a former vice chairman and six councillors of the Kuje Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory. Mr Duda Ismaila, Mr Yunusa Salihu, Mr Dantani Musa, Mr Maikasuwa Magaji, Mr Samson...
A medical doctor, Mistura Shogunle, on Wednesday narrated before an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court how a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in her neighbourhood. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Shogunle testified at the trial of a 20-year-old fashion designer, Rasheed...