By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the conviction and sentence of 11 Filipinos, two Chinese, one Malaysian and one Indonesian to one year imprisonment each for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud before Justices Yellim Bogoro and A....
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The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has directed its members in all federal courts nationwide and other judicial institutions to withdraw their services from June 2. National Vice President, North Central, Mr Mustapha Laminu, said this in a statement signed and issued on Friday in Abuja. Laminu said...
The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed June 30 to hear the suit filed by former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke challenging the forfeiture of her assets by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). At the resumed hearing of the matter on Friday, Alison-Madueke was represented by Mr Godwin...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, rejected the evidence sought to be tendered by the Federal Government in the ongoing trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling, agreed with the argument of the defence counsel,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja- A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday admitted in evidence video recordings of Nnamdi Kanu, the self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), threatening some prominent Igbo leaders over their stance on his activities. The court issued an order barring a lady...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has congratulated Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo on the Appeal Court judgment, which affirmed his election victory in the Sept. 2024 governorship poll. Wike, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications...
The ECOWAS Court of Justice, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Criminal Court, (ICC), and Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), have pledged to deepen their cooperation to enhance global jurisprudence. They made the pledge during a working visit by a high-level ECOWAS Court delegation, led by its President, Justice...
Federal High Court in Abuja stood down proceedings to deliver ruling on the admissibility of the evidence sought to be tendered by the Federal Government in the ongoing trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Justice James Omotosho stood down the matter after...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old teacher Chukwunonso Okafor, to life imprisonment for defiling a 3-year-old baby Justice Abiola Soladoye convicted and sentenced Okafor to life imprisonment after she held that the prosecution has successfully proved the three-count charge of sexual assault...
A former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele, has approached the Court of Appeal in abuja, praying it to set aside a judgment granting the government full control of a substantial estate in abuja comprising 753 housing units. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had earlier obtained...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja- A federal high court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday heard how the self-acclaimed lead of the separatist group, Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, smuggled a radio transmitter which he set up in Ubuluisiuzor, in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State. The Department...
A former French surgeon was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday after having confessed to the abuse of 299 patients, most of them minors. In what is considered to be France’s largest child-abuse trial. A retired medical doctor Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, admitted to abusing a total...
Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed June 4 for the arraignment of Halima Buba, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SunTrust Bank Ltd, over alleged money laundering to the tune of 12 million U.S dollars. Buba will be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), alongside...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced Mamman Ali and Christian Taylor to 14 years’ imprisonment each over a N2.2 billion oil subsidy fraud. Ali, son of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Ali, and Taylor were charged by the Economic and Financial...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to provide an investigative report and e-statement of Keystone Bank with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Justice Rahman Oshodi made the order on Tuesday in the ongoing N20 billion fraud trial involving the former...
The seventh prosecution witness, Mr John Adetola, told an Ikeja High Court that he did not document the alleged $400,000 he handed to the former Central Bank Governor (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Adetola, an executive assistant to the former CBN governor, said this on Monday while being cross-examined by Emefiele’s...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to order the removal of Rep Oluwole Oke as lawmaker representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency of Osun for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP, in a fresh suit filed on Monday by its lead...
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano, on Monday, sentenced a 38-year-old man, Shafi’u Abubakar to death by hanging and 150 strokes of cane for setting a mosque on fire and killing 23 people. Abubakar, who lives in Gezawa Local Government Kano, is charged with culpable homicide, attempted murder,...
A High Court sitting in Ado-EKiti on Monday sentenced one Jayeoba Oluwafemi, 56, to life imprison for defiling his 14 year old stepdaughter. The 56 year old convict was arraigned before Justice Adekunle Adeleye on Dec. 4, 2020 on one count charge of defilement. The charge reads that the...