The Kutep Yatso, the umbrella body of the Kutep ethnic group in Takum local government area of Taraba has filed a suit before the High Court in Jalingo seeking an interpretation of the existing laws on the establishment of First Class Traditional Stool in Takum. The News Agency...
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The Bayelsa Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed a fresh motion filed by All Progressives Congress, (APC) and its governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva asking the panel to recuse itself from handling their petition challenging the election of Gov. Douye Diri. Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Adekunle Adeleye dismissed...
A Deputy Director with the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Mr Yakubu Abisogun, on Monday, told an Ikeja High Court that Chrisland School Ikeja failed to comply with the state’s safeguarding and child protection policy. Abisogun, a Level 16 social wellbeing officer, said the ministry’s...
An Ikeja High Court has adjourned until April 15 to hear applications of counsel involved in the case of a businessman, Chief Cletus Ibeto, accused of N4.8 billion fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that when the case was called on Monday, the Director of Public...
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, remanded a 45-year old fake doctor, Adegoke Olaoluwa, for allegedly causing the death of his patient. The Magistrate, Mrs A.T. Oyediji, who did not take the defendant’s plea, ordered that he be remanded in Agodi correctional facility in Ibadan, pending legal advice...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Jusitice Mohammed Mohammed of the Sokoto State High Court, Monday adjourned to the 28th of March for the continuation of defence in the case between a security personnel, Mr Eche Acheme against Union Bank and Gaskiya security outfit. Mr Eche Acheme a security...
An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun, on Friday remanded nine persons for allegedly kidnapping and killing six girls for ritual purpose. The Police charged the defendants, whose addresses were not provided with kidnapping, murder, robbery and conspiracy. The defendants are: Moses Aruwaji, 45, Adebayo Azeez, 32, Mariam Aruwaji,...
The Chief Judge of Taraba, Justice Joel Agya, on Friday sentenced Yusufa Adamu and Adamu Abdullahi to death by hanging for kidnapping Balkisu Kambe and Maryam Musa in Gashaka Local Government Area of the state. Agya, while delivering the judgement in Jalingo, said the prosecution had proven...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a 100-level university part-time student of Computer Science, Emmanuel Victor, to 18 months imprisonment for online dating scam. Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced Victor to 18 months’ imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty to the charge of possession of fraudulent document, leveled against...
An EFCC witness, Bamaiyi Mairiga on Thursday told an FCT high court, Maitama that the signatures of former President Muhammadu Buhari and the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, were forged. Mairiga, a forensic document examiner with the EFCC, said this while...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, and others, on Thursday, prayed a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja to dismiss a suit filed by a lawyer, Azubuike Oko, seeking to stop the appointment of 12 judges into the FCT High Court. Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, who appeared...
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Dr. Tajuddeen Abbas, has filed a direct criminal complaint against Suleman Wakili, former member, Kaduna State House of Assembly before a Magistrates’ Court No. 6 sitting at Chediya, GRA Zaria. At the resumed hearing of the case on Thursday in Zaria, Mr....
A mild drama played out at the Area Court, Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, on Thursday when one Aminat Nagode-Allah burst into tears while accusing her husband of abandoning their matrimonial bed. Nagode-Allah had approached the court seeking to divorce her husband, Ismail Gobir, on grounds of lack of love and...
A FCT High Court sitting in Kubwa has struck out the N1 billion suit brought against a former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, while he was in office. Also sued was a civil servant, Ms Asabe Waziri and two others – the office...
Barely one month when an Abuja Grade ” A ” court sentenced a CBT owner to jail for act of infractions,a federal High court sitting in Akure,has convicted an undergraduate of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba for impersonation and examination malpractice during the 2023UTME The presiding judge, Honourable...
Appeal court on Wednesday set aside the judgment of an FCT High Court which restrained Julius Abure and two others from parading themselves as national officers of the Labour Party (LP). Ruling on an ex parte application on April 5, 2023, Justice Hamza Muazu, had restrained Abure, Farouk...
An FCT high court on Wednesday, struck out the fraud case filed against Grace Tiaga, a former Director of Legal Services in the Ministry of Petroleum following her death. Taiga was standing trial before Justice Olukayode Adeniyi on allegations bordering on bribery in the controversial Gas Supply Processing...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has struck out the bid by the Federal Government to begin fresh prosecution of former Abia Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, in the N7.6 billion fraud and money laundering case brought against him. The appellate court threw away the government’s move in a...
The criminal trial of Nigerian singer Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley could not proceed before a Federal High Court Lagos on Wednesday, following a pending application for fiat before the Chief Judge (CJ) of the court. The trial judge, Justice Isaac Dipeolu, was informed by the prosecutor, Mrs...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed the no-case submission filed by Prof. Cyril Ndifon and his lawyer, Mr Sunny Anyanwu, against the charge by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling, held that the evidence led...