The controversial online activist, Vincent Otse (a.k.a Very Dark Man) has arrived at Ikeja High Court, to hear defamatory suit leveled against him. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that VDM arrived the court on Thursday in an Edo attire with his fans cheering him on. He is...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has admitted the co-defendants in alleged money laundering charge filed against the immediate-past Governor of Kogi, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to administrative bail. EFCC’s counsel, Jamiu Agoro, informed Justice Maryann Anenih of an Abuja High Court on Thursday upon resumed hearing in the...
Justice Sylvanus Oriji of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on reserved ruling in the preliminary objections raised by former governor of Taraba, Darius Ishaku challenging the court’s jurisdiction. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged Darius alongside a former permanent secretary, Bureau for Local Government and...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and its former President, Amaju Pinnick on Monday, urged a Federal High Court in Abuja to strike out a suit filed against them by Harrison Jalla and Chief Victor Rumson Baribote, among others. NFF and Pinnick, through their lawyer, Jibrin Okutekpa, SAN, told Justice...
The Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi capital on Monday, nullified the recent ward, council and state congresses of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. The court also restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the second defendant in the suit from recognising any of the...
A Kano State High Court on Monday, ordered that a 43-year-old man, Mannir Ibrahim-Abdullahi, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly raping a minor to death. The Kano State Government charged Ibrahim-Abdullahi, who lives in Jaba Quarters, Kano, with culpable homicide and rape. Justice Zuwaira Yusuf, who gave...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged a Federal High Court in Abuja not to grant the reliefs sought by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State in his fundamental right enforcement suit, describing it as speculative. The EFCC, in its counter affidavit in opposition to Sanwo-Olu’s originating...
The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi, has said that no law in Nigeria prohibits the prosecution of minors. Fagbemi stated this in Abuja on Thursday while briefing journalists regarding a recent court order to release about 114 #EndBadGovernance protesters (minors and adults) who...
A logistics company, Martreach Logistics Limited, has urged the Court of Appeal to dismissed the appeal filled by Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the appeal bordered on the alleged N64 billion breach of contract suit for the provision of...
An Abuja High Court on Friday, quashed a criminal summon issued on Sept. 12 by an a magistrates’ court against Sen. Monday Okpebholo over alleged certificate forgery. Justice Charles Agbaza, in a judgment , also voided the entire proceedings before Magistrate Abubakar Mukhtar of a Wuse Magistrate Court in...
The Cross River’s Chapter of Magistrates Association of Nigeria, on has issued a seven- day ultimatum to the state government to effect promotion of its stagnated members or face strike. In a communiqué at the end of its meeting in Calabar on Wednesday , signed by Godwin Onah and...
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the remand of a housewife, Olajumoke Olalere, 33, at Agodi Correctional facility, Ibadan, for allegedly stabbing her husband to death. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Olabisi Ogunkanmi, who did not take the defendant’s plea for lack of jurisdiction, ordered her remand pending...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, adjourned the trial of a lawyer, Chinedu Evaristus, and three others in the alleged N58M million fraud case until Jan. 15, 2025. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik adjourned the case after F.N. Umoh, a lawyer from the office of the Attorney-General of the...
An Ondo High Court in Akure on Thursday set aside the suit challenging the candidature of Mr Olugbenga Edema as the flag-bearer of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) for the Nov. 16 governorship election in the state. Delivering judgment, Justice Oluyemi Osadabay, held that the court lacked jurisdiction...
A Kano State High Court has restrained the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), Accountant-General of Federal (AGF), the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) from withholding the 44 Kano State Local Governments’ allocations. The court gave the order following a Motion Ex-Parte filed on Nov.1, by the Chairman of...
The seventy six detained Kano minors on Tuesday night returned home via the Malam Aminu International Airport aboard a Max aircraft. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that the plane, which also flew Gov. Abba Yusuf, touched down at around 9:57pm, Earlier in the evening, Yusuf, had...
Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf on Tuesday said that he was not aware of the minors’ arrest until they were arraigned in the Federal High Court in Abuja. Yusuf made this known at the Muhammadu Buhari Special Hospital, where a team of medical professionals were designated to assess the...
An Abuja High Court on Tuesday adjourned until Nov. 11, hearing in a motion filed by a former governor of Taraba, Darius Ishaku, challenging jurisdiction to hear the alleged N27 billion fraud preferred against him. Ishaku and a former Permanent Secretary of Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs,...
Vice- President Kashim Shettima has implored the 119 released minors to strive to be responsible citizens as they unite with their families in Kano and Kaduna States. Shettima made the call while handing over the 119 released minors to Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano and Gov. Uba Sani of...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, struck out the treason charge preferred against the minors who participated in the August #EndBadGovernance protest following its withdrawal by the Federal Government. Justice Obiora Egwuatu struck out the charge after the application for the discontinuance was moved by Mr Mohammed...