A firm, Nextdora Nigeria Limited, has urged an Abuja High Court to restrain the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and others from selling its landed property. The property is located at Plot No. 4411, Cadastral Zone A09, Guzape District, Abuja. Nextdora Ltd, in a fresh suit...
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The Action Democratic Party (ADP) ) has prayed a Federal High Court in Abuja to nullify the election victory of the Action Peoples Party (APP candidates in the Rivers Local Government (LG) poll held on Oct. 5. The plaintiff, Juboye Abraham, a candidate of the ADP in that election...
By Yushau A. Shuaib In 2019, my son, Gidado Shuaib—publisher of News Digest and the host of the annual Campus Journalism Awards (CJA)—found himself enmeshed in a defamation case. It stemmed from a report he and Alfred Olufemi an award-winning young journalist at Premium Times published regarding alleged hemp...
Former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has threatened to sue persons behind an online media, Daily Excessive, over alleged fake report targeted at causing a strained relationship between him and President Bola Tinubu. The decision to sue the purveyors of the news was made known in a statement signed...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order that the Court processes in respect of a suit against President Bola Tinubu, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio and others challenging the legality of removal of...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Thursday remanded a 30-year-old woman, Mercy Michael, in a correctional facility for allegedly killing her daughter with rat poison. Michael was charged by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) with culpable homicide, contrary to Section 189 of the...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has fixed Jan.7 for ruling on the application filed by the embattled ex-Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, challenging the jurisdiction of the court. Emefiele is standing trial for alleged abuse of office and $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud. His co-defendant, Henry Omoile,...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday set aside a bench warrant issued against the Former Managing Director of Assets Management Cooperation of Nigeria (AMCON) Ahmed Kuru. He is charged with alleged Arik Airline N76 billion and 31.5 million dollars fraud. Other defendants are former Receiver Manager of Arik...
The Nembe Division of Bayelsa High Court, on Wednesday ordered the Inspector-General of Police, (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun to appear before it within 42 days, in connection with N649 million accommodation debt suit. The court presided over by Justice T. Y. Abasi demanded the appearance of the IGP following the...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has adjourned till Dec. 12, to hear the application filed by the embattled ex-Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, challenging the jurisdiction of the lower court. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Emefiele had approached the Court of Appeal, challenging the jurisdiction...
Justice Maryann Anenih o a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court on Tuesday struck out the bail application filed by former governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. Anenih struck out the application on the grounds that it was filed when the former governor was yet to be taken into...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced a teacher, John Osifo, to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old pupil. Delivering judgment, Justice Rahman Oshodi held that the prosecution proved the charge of defilement against Osifo beyond every reasonable doubt. Oshodi noted that the convict breached...
Ahead of Tuesday’s hearing of the defamation charge against Dele Farotimi, the Lagos-based legal practitioner has filed a preliminary objection asking the Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court to strike out the suit. The preliminary objection dated December 9, 2024, was filed through his lawyer, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika,...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has granted bail to rights activist and legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi. Farotimi was granted bail on Monday morning. The court granted him bail for ₦50m with a surety in the same amount. The surety must also provide a landed property...
An Industrial Court sitting in Owerri has restrained the Imo Government from further demolition of the Owerri Central Market complex, Owerri. The presiding judge, Hon. Justice I.C. Ibeawuchi who gave the order on Friday, restrained the state government, either through their agents, or any other person acting on their...
A lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, on Friday, retracted the alleged defamatory statements made against Umar Damagun, acting National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, the acting National Secretary. Adeyanju, in a letter dated Dec. 6 written from his law firm, Deji Adeyanju & Partners, and signed...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday, set aside the order of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), suspending Mr Muhuyi Magaji, the Chairman, Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC). A three-member panel of justices, in the lead judgment read by Justice Umaru Fadawu, also ordered...
An Abuja High Court has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to submit Certified True Copy (CTC) of the investigation report on the funds allocated to 17 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Abia from 2019 to 2023. Justice Bello Kawu gave the order while delivering a ruling...
The Labour Party caucus in the House of Representatives has called for judicial neutrality, impartiality and fair hearing in the defamation case against an activist lawyer, Dele Farotimi, by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN). The caucus leader, Victor Ogene, made the call in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, against...
A prosecution witness in the trial of Chrisland School on the death of Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old student, has said that investigations did not reveal that the school was responsible for electricity at the stadium. The witness, Mr Wahab Ariyo, an officer with the Lagos State Safety Commission, said...