An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 47-year-old shopkeeper, Seydou Garuba, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter. Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution proved the charge of defilement against Garuba. He stated that the survivor’s evidence corroborated...
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The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has said it is worrisome that in spite of concerted efforts, allegations of corruption, delays in justice dispensation and bias still persists in the judiciary. Justice Kekere-Ekun said this on Monday in Abuja while declaring open the 2025 hybrid refresher...
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Chief Olabode George, has faulted calls for the creation of 31 additional states in the country . Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)on Sunday, the PDP chieftain said creation of additional states would not solve...
Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai and Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, two influential figures in Nigerian politics, have been making headlines with their bold comments and actions. Their unconventional approach has sparked debate about whether they’re reckless loose cannons or calculated strategists. As Nigeria navigates its intricate political landscape, El-Rufai, Amaechi, and other...
Sen. Ned Nwoko on Wednesday at plenary officially notified the senate of his defection from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Party (APC). Nwoko’s notification is contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and read at plenary on Wednesday. Nwoko in the letter titled:...
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), and its governorship candidate in Edo, Asue Ighodalo, on Monday, closed their case at the Edo Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that PDP and Ighodalo dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), the All Progressives Congress...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr Olu Agunloye before a Federal Capital Territory(FCT) , high court Apo. He was re-arriagned on allegations bordering on award of contract for construction of 3,960MW Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Station in Taraba. The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, tendered into evidence more documents against the social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha charged with six billion naira money laundering. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the case is before an Ikeja Special Offences Court....
Mr Anthony Aziegbemin, the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, on Monday, said their petition against the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the governorship election tribunal sitting in Abuja was documentary based. Aziegbemin stated this while briefing the newsmen in Abuja shortly after the PDP and its candidate...
A State High Court in Lokoja on Monday sacked the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, Alhaji Tijani Ahmed-Anaje. Justice Umar Salisu, gave the order in a judgment he delivered in Lokoja with a charge to Ahmed-Anaje not to parade himself as the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland. NAN reports that Daudu Adeku-Ojiah, Hussain...
It is a settled fact that Anthony Eromosele Enahoro (July 22, 1923 – December 15, 2010) was an outstanding product of Nigeria’s pre-independence era. Enahoro moved one of the motions for independence and there’s a lot for us to look at in the context of the life he lived...
A masked witness, identified as Prosecution Witness-D (PW-D) on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja that he paid N80 million ransom for the release of his mother and sister during the 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train terrorists attack . The witness testified before Justice Inyang Ekwo in the ongoing...
An Ikeja High Court on Thursday adjourned till March 20 to hear a plea bargain agreement filed by the convicted kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans). Justice Adenike Coker adjourned the case after Evans and his co-defendant, Joseph Emeka, were re-arraigned. The duo were re-arraigned on an amended five-count charge...
A Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced two lovers, Mohammed Nazifi, 30, and Bilkisu Ibrahim, 25, to three months imprisonment each for adultery. The police charged the lovers with a one-count charge of adultery by man and woman, to which they pleaded guilty. Nazifi pleaded with the court...
Ahead of the 29 January 2025 deadline for their self-imposed exit from ECOWAS, the junta leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the Alliance of Sahel States, AES, have become jittery, deploying every trick, including disinformation, misinformation and blackmail to deflect blame for the inevitable consequences and uncertainty of their military adventure....
The Edo Gubernatorial Election Petition Tribunal on Tuesday in Abuja, berated the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo, over their failure to produce witnesses in court. PDP and Asue were to produce witnesses to testify in the petition they filed seeking the nullification of the governorship...
Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has claimed that the judiciary is the biggest threat to Nigeria’s democracy. He spoke on Monday in Abuja, as a panelist at a national conference on strengthening democracy in Nigeria, organised by the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), the Centre...
Nyesom Wike has once again stirred the hornet’s nest. The former Governor of Rivers State and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is no stranger to controversy. His recent declaration that he is not Igbo and will never identify as one has reopened an age-old debate on...
A Department of State Service (DSS) official, Mr Stephen Okolo, has said that the deployment of technology aided the arrest of three security personnel facing charges of kidnapping and banditry in Oyo State. Okolo said this in his testimony before Justice N.E. Maha of the Federal High Court in...
Court fixes March 12 for judgment in suit seeking to stop Wike from arresting Commercial Sex Workers
Court fixes March 12 for judgment in suit seeking to stop Wike from arresting Commercial Sex Workers
A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed March 12 for judgment in suit seeking to stop Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, and the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) from arresting and prosecuting Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) in Abuja. Justice James Omotosho fixed the date after counsel for the...