A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered parties in a suit filed by the Abuja Markets Management Limited (AMML) and its embattled Managing Director, Alhaji Abubakar Faruk, against the Abuja Investments Company Limited (AICL) and others to maintain a status quo until the next adjourned date. Justice Ahmed...
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An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 28-year-old man, for allegedly breaking into a cemetery and stealing iron rods used to cover a corpse in a grave, valued at N1.1 million. The defendant, Mubarak Kajola, whose residential address was not disclosed, was arraigned on a three-count charge...
Five men on Wednesday appeared before a Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly possessing and displaying two bags of fake U.S. dollars and pound sterling. The defendants are Francis Omwukei 26; Kingsley Ude, 33; Umar ldris, 37; Andrew Eyo, 27; and Bright Ahamefula, 26. ...
A jury in New Zealand found a South African woman guilty on Wednesday of murdering her three young daughters, saying she faced a life sentence for each killing. Lauren Anne Dickason killed her two-year-old twins and their six-year-old sister in September 2021 at their home in Timaru, a...
The Federal Government will on Thursday arraign suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and his associates for N6.9 billion procurement fraud at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja. Emefiele will be arraigned alongside a female CBN employee, Sa’adatu Yaro and her company,...
A legal practitioner, Mr Maxwell Opara, has filed an alleged defamatory suit seeking N10 billion in damages against Twitter and the Department of State Services (DSS). In the writ of summons marked: FCT/HC/CV/7186/23 and filed at the FCT High Court by Malachy Nwaekpe, Opara listed Twitter Nigeria Limited and...
Rep. Mukthar Umar-Zakari (NNPP Kano) has vowed to appeal the Election Petition Tribunal’s decision to invalidate his election due to alleged certificate forgery. Umar-Zakari, who represented Tarauni Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tribunal had nullified his election and declared Hafizu Kawu of the All Progressives Congress...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar says the judiciary hearing the petitions for the 2023 general election cannot be shielded from public scrutiny, hence, “all eyes on the judiciary”. Atiku made his position known in a...
The leaders of the 26 July Nigerien coup agreed on 13 August to hold direct talks with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) indicating that ECOWAS’s threat of military intervention has had some impact on the coup leaders. Tensions in West Africa have been elevated ever since...
The family of the late former Head of State, Gen. Murtala Muhammed, has expressed profound discontent with the prosecution of murder trials in Nigeria, urging the National Assembly to enact legal frame for seamless prosecution. The family expressed this in a statement on Tuesday in remembrance of...
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has high regards for his predecessors, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu and Sen. Umaru Al-Makura. The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Public Affairs to the governor, Mr Peter Ahemba, said this in a newsmen conference on Tuesday in Lafia. The media aide was reacting to a...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has tasked state governors and their deputies to maintain cordial relationship toward strengthening democracy in Nigeria. Ganduje, a former Governor of Kano State, said this he received members of former APC deputy governors’ forum in Abuja on Monday....
The Southeast must embrace other geopolitical zones in politics to get its fair share of Nigeria, Sen. Onyekachi Nwebonyi (APC- Ebonyi North) said in Abakaliki on Monday. Nwebonyi, vice-chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation and Water Resources told a news conference that the zone must play politics...
The Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) Mr Osita Okechukwu, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu not to eject former Gov. Nasir El-Rufai in his cabinet. Mr. Okechukwu, also a foundation member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. He...
Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo have berated the Deputy Governor of the State, Comrade Philip Shaibu, for approaching the court over an allegation of impeachment. Rising from a meeting on Sunday in Igueben, Igueben Local Government Area of the state, the party leaders who...
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo, Mr Martins Sadoh, has said that capacity of candidates should determine the choice of successor to Gov. Godwin Obaseki in 2024 and not ethnicity. Sadoh, a security expert based in Netherlands, said this in a statement made available...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The National Judicial Council (NJC) has debunked reports alleging that it has surrendered its statutory powers and functions on Judges’ appointments and promotions to State Governors. NJC’s Director of Information, Mr Soji Oye, said in a statement on Sunday, that the report was fake....
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – – President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, have been dragged to court by advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), over “the unlawful plan to spend N40bn on 465 exotic and bulletproof cars for...
Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodimma on Saturday unveiled Mrs Chinyere Ekomaru as his running mate for the November 11 governorship election in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the unveiling took place at an APC stakeholders’ meeting in Owerri. The governor also presented...