By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State High Court, presided by Justice Elias Abua, has thrown out a suit which sought an order of interlocutory injunction to remove the Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V. Justice Abua said that giving such orders without any tangible...
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A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, has ordered a 30-year-old teacher, Josiah Alkali, to be remanded in a correctional facility for allegedly kissing and romancing four boys. Alkali was charged by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) with defilement on four separate charge sheets....
The arraignment of Mr Saleh Mamman, former Minister of Power under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, was, on Thursday, stalled at a Federal High Court, Abuja, due to ill-health. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mamman, whose plea was fixed for Thursday morning, collapsed outside the courtroom...
#EndSARS nOWAS Court orders Nigeria to pay victims N2m compensation each The ECOWAS Court of Justice, on Wednesday, ordered Nigeria to pay 2 million naira each to some victims of the October 2020 #EndSARS protests in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protests were organized...
The Supreme Court will deliver judgment on the suit seeking full autonomy for the 774 local governments in the country on Thursday, July 11. The notices on the development have being sent to all the lawyers in the suit. The Federal Government instituted the suit against all the...
An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Mrs Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has revealed that the embattled Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Governor Godwin Emefiele, and his wife Margaret, were not signatories to the account alleged to have been owned by them. Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office...
The former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Anamekwe Nwabuoku, on Wednesday, begged a Federal High Court, Abuja, to give him more time to conclude the refund of the public funds allegedly siphoned. Nwabuoku and his co-defendant, Felix Nweke, in the 11-count money laundering charge preferred against them...
No The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended its National Vice Chairman (South South), Chief Dan Orbih over his alleged actions and utterances on Edo governorship primary election of the party. The party disclosed this, in a statement, by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba in Abuja on Wednesday....
How ex-Adamawa Governor Murtala Nyako looted state’s funds, witness tells court An EFCC detective, Adekunle-Christopher Odofin, told a Federal High Court, Abuja, how former Governor of Adamawa, Murtala Nyako, siphoned the state’s funds running into billions of naira, while in office. Odofin, who is the EFCC’s star witness and...
An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Mrs Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has narrated how Mr Godwin Emefiele, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), moved funds to his wife, Mrs Margaret Emefiele. Ogbonnaya told an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday how Emefiele used the bank...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday urged Edo people to sustain their freedom by voting the current leadership of the state come Sept. 21. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare said this at a news conference on Tuesday in Benin. Nehikhare stated that the PDP...
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced one Olukayode Dayo, a former officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to life imprisonment over an offence of rape. The 39- year- old convict was arraigned before Justice Lekan Olatawura on May...
A school bus driver, Michael Mowete, was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment to spend for defiling a three-year old girl ( name withheld). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court held that the prosecution...
A father of four, Folahanmi Ojo, on Tuesday told a Grade A Customary Court in Mapo,Ibadan, that his wife became ill-mannered when he married a second wife. Ojo, a surveyor, counter argument before the court against his wife’s allegation of frequent battery, admitted that he tried his best...
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has directed that the request by former Governor Yahaya Bello, for the transfer of the alleged money laundering case instituted against him by the EFCC to Kogi, be heard in open court. In a letter, addressed to...
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, has said that contrary to reports, the party was now more united and popular in the state than before. The Chairman of APC in the state, Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, stated this in a statement on Monday in...
The Kano State chapter of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has rejected the suspension of Governor Abba Yusuf from the party by a faction of the National Executive Committee of the party, describing it as illegal. The party also dismissed the expulsion of the leader of the...
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, on Monday sought to take over the trial of Karl Toriola, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd; and others. Counsel to the AGF, Mrs Aderonke Imana, told Justice Inyang Ekwo of...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, fixed Sept. 26 for arraignment of another two senior staff of Rural Electrification Agency (REA) by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for alleged N1.84billion fraud. The officials, who are being prosecuted separately, are Aminat Asuni...
The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced a security guard, David Jackson, 72, to life imprisonment for defiling a 7-year old girl. Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Jackson to life imprisonment and held that the prosecution had proved the three ingredients...