The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed contempt charge against the Director General, Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, over his alleged refusal to obey court orders. Kanu, through his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, on Monday filed Form 49 titled: “Notice to...
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A man in Denmark has been sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention after stabbing a heavily pregnant woman to death in 2016. The district court in Glostrup announced the sentence on Monday. The now 30-year-old man is said to have stabbed the woman 11 times with...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday in a Federal Capital Territory (FCT), High Court , Maitama opened its case of alleged N2.6 billion fraud against former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika and three others. The EFCC dragged Sirika alongside his daughter, Fatima; Jalal Sule Hamma and...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Vice Chancellor (VC) of University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), Prof. Rasheed Na’Allah, to appear before it on June 13 to show cause why the planned inauguration of the newly elected Internal Governing Council Members of the institution should not be...
A Federal High Court in Kano has fixed June 13, for ruling in application challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the implementation of the Kano Emirate Council (Repeal) Law 2024. The applicant Alhaji Aminu Babba-Dan’agundi( Sarkin Dawaki Babba), through his counsel, Ibrahim Aliyu-Nasarawa, filed a motion...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to arrest three officials of Rural Electrification Agency for failure to appear in court for their arraignment. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, gave the order for the issuance...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday, further adjourned until June 25 for mention a case against celebrity bartender, Pascal Okechukwu (Cubana Chief Priest) for alleged abuse of the Naira. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), arraigned Okechukwu on April 17, on a three-count charge of...
A High Court in Birnin Kebbi on Monday sentenced a woman, Farida Abubakar to death by hanging for killing her former husband, Chief Magistrate, Attahiru Muhammad-Ibrahim. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Abubbakat was arraigned before the court for murder on Aug. 25, 2022 while the main...
The Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, has perfected his bail conditions from the two cases he is facing – alleged asset declaration and illicit drugs – at the Federal High Court in Abuja and has been released from the Kuje Correctional Centre, after spending twenty-seven...
probe The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA); its founder and pioneer National Chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, and others have demanded an investigation into an allegation of forgery levelled against a lawyer, Sopuluchukwu Ezeonwuka. they are also seeking a probe into the alleged sharp practices against Ezeonwuka in an appeal...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday revoked the bail it granted Abubakar Ismail, 34, who claimed to be a medical doctor at the Life Plus Medical Centre in Bassa village in Abuja Chief Magistrate Musa Abdulrazaq, revoked the defendant’s bail following his absence from court. Abdulrazaq said that...
An Osun Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ile-Ife, on Friday remanded a 25-year-old man, Adebisi Kola, for allegedly beating a woman to death. The police charged Kola with assault and homicide. Magistrate Kikelomo Adebayo did not take Kola’s plea on grounds that his court lacked the jurisdiction to hear...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, admitted Mrs Chioma Okoli to N5 million bail with two sureties in like sum over allegations bordering on her online commentary on Erisco Foods Limited’s tomato paste. Justice Peter Lifu, in a ruling, agreed with the arguments of the defendant’s lawyer,...
The office of the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police has dragged a lawyer, Everestus Ugwuowo and three others to court over allegation of defrauding a woman of N29 million and forging documents to sell a house in Abuja. In the amended charge number: FHC/ABJ/CR/121/2018 presently before Justice Obiora Egwuatu...
Hearing in the plea bargain application filed by the convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (a.k.a Evans), could not proceed on Thursday due to the absence of the legal advice. Evans and his co-defendant, Joseph Emeka, had filed the application before a Lagos High Court, sitting at Tafawa Balewa...
The criminal trial of Nigerian singer Azeez Fashola (a.k.a Naira Marley) could not proceed on Thursday before a Federal High Court in Lagos. The trial was stalled because parties in the suit are still awaiting approval of a fiat by the chief judge of the Federal High Court....
The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed his brief of argument against the decision of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja which dismissed his objection to his trial continuation. Kanu, in the brief of argument dated May 28 but filed May...
A High Court in Port Harcourt on Thursday ordered that the seats of the 25 lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), vacant, pending the determination of a suit. Justice Charles Wali gave the order in Suit No PHC/1512/CS/2024, filed...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, fixed June 13 to hear a suit seeking to restrain Dr Abdullahi Ganduje from parading himself as the National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date to allow parties in the suit regularise their processes. The...