President of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, Justice Ricardo Goncalves, has called for justice to be brought out of courtrooms to the heart of West African communities. Goncalves made the call on Monday in Lagos, at the sensitisation outreach by the Community Court of Justice, Economic Community of...
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An FCT High Court on Monday ordered the Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay the required fees for certification of some documents it tendered as exhibit in trial of former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, and three others. Sirika is charged alongside, his daughter, Fatima, son-in-law, Jalal Sule Hamma and...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday ordered the remand of one Friday Audu at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre over alleged $2.6 million and N3.5 billion fraud. Justice Rahman Oshodi directed that Audu be held at the Kirikiri Medium Correctional Centre, pending a decision on his bail application. The...
A Bureau De Change (BDC) Operator, Alhaji Idris Ali, on Monday testified against Muhammad Lawal, the managing director of Faru Power Solution Limited, for allegedly defrauding him of the total sum of N280 million. Ali, while being cross examined as 1st prosecution witness (PW-1) by the defence lawyer, Yakubu...
Human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi has threatened to sue those behind his arrest and detention over the halted defamation case between him and legal luminary Afe Babalola (SAN). Police authorities had in December arrested Farotimi in Lagos and whisked him to Ekiti, where he was charged with defaming Babalola...
Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, May 2, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Agudosi Christopher Okechukwu to six months imprisonment for non-declaration of foreign currencies at Lagos Airport. Okechukwu was arrested in December 2024 at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos...
A Lagos High Court at Tafawa Balewa Square on Friday, sentenced a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominikoron, to death by hanging for the murder of his passenger, Oluwabamise Ayanwola. Ominikoron was arraigned for rape ad murder of a 22-year-old fashion designer, Ayanwola, who boarded his BRT bus...
The trial of the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has resumed on Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Earlier, the court, led by Justice James Omotosho, granted the request of the Federal Government for witnesses to testify behind screens. At the resumed...
Rite Foods Ltd, the manufacturer of Fearless Energy Drinks, have sought a N1.6 billion in damages from Mamuda Beverages Nig. Ltd, the maker of Pop Power Energy Drinks, over allegations bordering on trademark infringement. Rite Foods Ltd, in a fresh suit filed by its team of lawyers led by...
Mr Chikaosolu Ojukwu (SAN), counsel to Mrs Aisha Achimugu, Chief Executive Officer of Felak Concept Group, on Wednesday said that the order for release of Achimugu from the custody of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) within 24 hours was victory for the justice system. Ojukwu made the statement...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to, within 24 hours, release the socialite and businesswoman, Aisha Achimugu. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a short ruling, also directed that parties in the suit, especially the EFCC, should report to the court...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has prayed the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss an application by Binance Holdings Limited, seeking to vacate the ex-parte order made in its favour. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Inyang Ekwo had, on Feb 11, granted leave...
A Grade A Customary Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan has dissolved a 13-year-old marriage between one Durojaye Akingbade and his estranged wife, Olabisi, on grounds of stubbornness and sexual starvation. Pronouncing the marriage dissolved, the Court President, Mrs S.M. Akintayo, held that the petitioner was no longer interested...
The operatives of the Economic d Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, arrived at the Federal High Court in Abuja with the businesswoman, Aisha Achimugu, as ordered by the court. Achimugu, who was sandwiched by two female EFCC’s officers, arrived in court at about 11:35am. The News Agency of...
A former University of Lagos Student, Chidinma Ojukwu, accused of killing Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, on Tuesday said that statements she made during police interrogation were false and under duress. Ojukwu testified in her defence before Justice Yetunde Adesanya at a Lagos State High Court sitting...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, adjourned the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the prescribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), until Friday for cross examination of the Federal Government’s witness. Justice James Omotosho adjourned the case after the FG’s counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, led the...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has started hearing on Israel’s continuing severe restrictions on the work of the UN and other international organisations in Gaza. The ICJ, which sits in The Hague and is the UN’s top court, is expected to hear from 40 states and four international...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, granted a n application by the Federal Government to shield identities of witnesses billed to testify against the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Justice James Omotosho granted the application after federal government’s counsel, Chief Adegboyega...
A General Court Martial (GCM) sitting at the Headquarters of 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu has sentenced a soldier, Pte Adamu Mohammed, to death by hanging for murdering his girlfriend, The acting Deputy Director 82 Division Army Public Relations, Lt.-Col. Jonah Unuakhalu, in a statement in Enugu on Tuesday,...