The trial of former National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, in the alleged N400 million fraud has been reassigned to a new judge. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Obiora Egwatu of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, had fixed Oct....
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The Federal High Court in Yenagoa on Monday adjourned until March 22, hearing in a N 700 billion oil spill compensation suit filed by members of Aghoro I community in Bayelsa. The people of Aghoro I in Ekeremor Local Government Area (LGA) in Bayelsa sued Shell Petroleum Development Company...
A businessman, Mr Uchenna Okolie, In Thursday prayed a Customary Court in Jikwoyi to grant him divorce on grounds that his marriage has been ruined by his mother-in-law. The respondent who resides in Abuja, said this in a divorce petition he filed. “My mother-In-law has ruined my marriage. She...
Absence of Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, stalled the hearing of a suit filed by a group against the police over the suspension of DCP Abba Kyari. Although counsel to the applicant, the Incorporated Trustees of Northern Peace Foundation, Hamza N’Dantani, was in...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar Following the resumption of the murder charge preferred against a former Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Joseph Mbu by the Department of Public Prosecution in Cross River State, the accused has been involved in legal tango with the state over issues of jurisdiction and service....
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The lingering crises facing the Ohanaze Ndigbo in Cross River State has taken a new dimension as a High Court sitting in Calabar has adjourned hearing of the matter between parties in the tussle for leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo in the State. The matter came...
An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ms Adewunmi Omotosho on Monday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how alleged Access Bank hacker, Chris Ihebuzo was apprehended by the anti-graft agency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ihebuzo in a video that went viral...
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN) have been dragged before a Federal High Court in Abuja over an alleged unlawful award of 190 km rail line construction to a Chinese firm without due process of law. They were...
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano, on Thursday, ordered the Kano State Government to recall Prosecution Witness (PW1) for re-cross examination in an alleged blasphemy case against Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru-Kabara. NAN reports that Nasiru-Kabara is charged with four counts bordering on blasphemous comments against Prophet Muhammad committed the...
Arraignment of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Golden Tulip Hotel, Amaechi Ndili, was on Wednesday stalled at an Ikeja Special Offences Court. Also, the court has ordered that the case file should be returned to the Office of the Chief Judge of Lagos State for reassignment. Justice Sherifat...
Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Prosecution Counsel, to pay N200, 000 for stalling the day’s proceeding in the trial of co-defendants in Nnamdi Kanu on treasonable felony charge. Justice Nyako ordered that each of the four defendants be paid N50,000 by...
A third prosecution witness, Doctor Aghogho Owhojedo, the Oromoni’s family doctor, has testified at the coroner’s inquest investigating the controversial death of the Dowen College Student. The doctor, who treated the late Sylvester Oromoni Jnr from Nov 26th when he arrived in Warri till Nov 30th, 2021 when he...
The absence of John Idumange, who raised an alarm over alleged diversion of N3 billion Agriculture loan by government officials was on Monday stalled in a High Court in Yenogoa. When the case came up, the Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Iyobosa Apulu expressed disappointment over the absence of the defendant...
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday, ordered that a 23-year-man, Usman Omidinran, be remanded in a correctional facility for attempting to kill his father. The police charged Omidinran, who resides in Igangan, Oyo State with attempted murder. The Senior Magistrate, Mrs Munirat Giwa – Babalola, who...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over his failure to probe allegations that over N3bn of public funds are missing from the Federal Ministry of Finance, and to ensure the prosecution of those suspected to be...
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday, January 28, 2022, dismissed the no-case submission filed by one Osho Aluko-Kola, who is standing trial on a nine-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N206, 502,490.02. Aluko-Kola, who was first...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed March 31 for judgment in the 9.8 million dollars fraud charge filed against Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Justice Ahmed Mohammed fixed the date after counsel to the EFCC, Farouk Abdullah, and the defence...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has convicted a comedian and skit maker, Joshua Sunday, popularly called De General, for unlawful possession of 14 grams of Tramadol. Also convicted alongside the 22-year-old comedian, is Caleb Ojana William, who was accused of unlawful possession of 15 grams of Cannabis...
The UK government and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) are set for a court battle over a story the broadcaster wants to air which would reportedly identify a spy. The Telegraph has reported that the programme would reveal the identity of the intelligence worker operating overseas, and it is...
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Thursday, January 20, 2022, arraigned one Wasila Musa Ibrahim and her company, Najaatu Petroleum Limited, before Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa at the Federal High Court, Kano. They were arraigned on a 10-count charge bordering on money...