An Ikeja High Court on Thursday fixed till Feb. 19 to hear a preliminary objection filed by Martins Otse also known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), challenging a defamation suit against him. A human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) and his son, Folarin, popularly known as Falz, filed the defamatory...
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A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, made an order proscribing the Lakurawa sect and other similar groups in any part of Nigeria, especially in the North West and North Central regions of the country. Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling on the ex-parte originating summons filed by...
A 36-year-old man, Nibras Isah, was on Thursday remanded by a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly attempting to rape his neigbour’s 12-year-old daughter. The Isah, who resides at Ungwan Sanusi in Kaduna, is charged with attempted rape. The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, who did not take the plea of...
A Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja, on Thursday, cautioned the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police in the charge filed against Sen. Andy Uba, and two others, over allegations bordering on N400 million fraud . Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the warming after I-G’s lawyer, M.C. Anthony, relied on the FHC...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has faulted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for obtaining a freezing order against Micoz Bluelink Enterprise’s $163,592 U. S. dollars domiciled in United Bank for Africa (UBA) without concrete evidence. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that the EFCC had...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, fixed Feb. 19 for hearing in a suit filed by Global Gas and Refining Limited against Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) after an attempt to settle amicably failed. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after counsel to Global...
Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed several lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by his opponents to block his agenda in court. After his inauguration on Monday, Trump, a Republican, ordered U.S. agencies to refuse to...
France’s judiciary on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on suspicion of complicity in war crimes, specifically relating to the death of a French-Syrian man in 2017. Investigating judges suspect al-Assad of complicity in murder and attacks on civilians. The newspaper Le Parisien reported...
A Prosecution Witness, Mr Ismail Lawal, on Tuesday told a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court that former governor of Taraba, Darius Ishaku gave him 5,000 dollars to relocate to Lagos. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Sept. 30, 2024, arraigned Ishaku and former permanent secretary, Bureau...
A former presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 elections, Mr Tunde Omosebi, has sued the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and others for 990 trillion pounds in damages for allegedly violating his fundamental rights. Omosebi, in the suit filed before Justice James...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, January 20, 2025 arraigned a former Managing Director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Ahmed Kuru, current Managing Director of Arik Air, Captain Roy Ilegbodu, and Receiver Manager of Arik Air. Kamilu Omokide, alongside...
Hearing in a suit filed by Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE over bid to stop issuance of oil import licences to some oil marketing companies suffered setback on Monday at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The matter, which was scheduled for hearing before Justice Inyang Ekwo, could...
A Forex trader, Henry Gabriel, on Monday, appeared before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Zuba, charged with misappropriating $10,000, property of Navy Capt. A. Madaki. The defendant and his company, HDFX Limited, are facing two- counts of criminal conspiracy and breach of trust. The prosecution counsel,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of one Lukumanu Sani Waziri, an accountant at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Sokoto, for corruption and abuse of office. A statement signed by ICPC’s spokesperson and Director of Public...
The Founder, Eeze Conceptz Limited, Mr Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu, has told the popular gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo, that her allegations against him were untrue and baseless. Onyedikachukwu’s lawyer, Mr Maxwell Opara, stated this in a statement he signed and made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in...
Justice Mu’azu Abubakar of the Bauchi state High Court 5, has sentenced five persons to life imprisonment for armed robbery and criminal conspiracy. The prosecution counsel, U.I Lame told the court that the defendants, Aliyu Yusuf, Adamu Muhammed, Bilal Aliyu, Ismail Haruna and Mansur Mu’azu, on May, 29, 2018,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a 13-count criminal charge against the Chairman, Honeywell Group, Chief Oba Otudeko and a former Managing Director of First Bank, Olabisi Onasanya for allegedly obtaining the sum of N12.3bn from First Bank. The duo are to be arraigned on Monday,...
By JOY ADARA , Abuja – Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja has fixed January 31, 2025 for the trial of the former Acting Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Anamekwe Nnabuoku for alleged multiple financial fraud to the tune of N1.96billion. Nnabuoku was on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, arraigned by the Economic...
The British national, Mr James Nolan, who jumped bail in the ongoing trial linked to alleged 9.6 billion dollars Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd scandal, on Thursday, said he does not intend to call any witness. Nolan told Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court in Abuja...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday granted a warrant of arrest against Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu, the manager of gospel singer Mercy Chinwo. Justice Alexander Owoeye granted the order following a motion exparte brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seeking arrest of the manager. When the...