Mrs Blessing Adeniran, the mother of the 12-year-old Chrisland student, Whitney Adeniran, who died during the school inter-house sports competition, has said that her family doctor did not tell her that the deceased had any medical condition. Adeniran said this on Friday before Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the...
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An Ikeja High Court on Friday has ordered that hearing notice be served on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the case of a businessman, Chief Cletus Ibeto, charged with N4.8 billion fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oyindamola Ogala ordered that...
Justice Peter Kekemeke of an FCT High Court on Tuesday convicted a false investigator, Mohammed Momoh for defrauding Mrs Mario Al -Makura, wife of former governor of Nasarawa state. Kekemeke convicted Momoh based on the charge preferred against him by the Economic and financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) bordering...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, fixed March 19 for ruling in the bail application and preliminary objection to his trial commencement filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Justice Binta Nyako fixed the date after counsel for the Federal...
The Kwara state high court, sitting as an appellate court in Ilorin, has discharged and acquitted two journalists convicted for publishing a defamatory article against a rice factory, faulting the police and trial magistrate’s ruling. In February 2023, a magistrate’s court convicted Alfred Olufemi, an investigative reporter and...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin. A statement via the anti-graft agency X (Twitter) handle on Friday,...
A Federal High Court judge, Justice James Omotosho on Friday, warned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) to be diligent in its prosecution of the alleged money laundering charge filed against Ali Bello and Suleiman Daudu or its case would be closed. Omotosho gave the warning while...
Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), says the ICPC is desperate to create or search for any conceivable crime to nail him. Prof. Ndifon told Justice James Omotosho of a Federal High Court, Abuja in a no-case submission filed by his...
Mr Suleiman Dauda, co-defendant to Ali Bello in the ongoing alleged money laundering charge against them has raised objections against the fresh charges filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). At the resumed hearing of the case on Thursday, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, Dauda,...
The leader of an Eastern European organised crime gang accused in the failed murder-for-hire plot of Iranian dissident journalist, Masih Alinejad has been extradited to the U.S. to face justice. The U.S. federal officials said this on Wednesday. Polad Omarov’s arrest meant that all three suspects accused of...
Money laundering trial of a former Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, could not proceed on Wednesday before a federal high court in Lagos, as the court did not sit. The Judge, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, is said to be away on an official assignment. The case...
The plan by Rep Nicolas Mutu (Delta-PDP) to open his defence, on Wednesday, in the alleged N320 million money laundering charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) suffered setback at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The matter, which was listed as number one...
A businesswoman, Adenike Lawal on Wednesday sought from a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan the dissolution of her one-year-old marriage to her estranged husband, Muslim, on grounds that he is a drunk and a wife beater. Lawal, who resides in Okota area of Lagos State added...
Embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has demanded N1bn damages from Senate President Godswill Akpabio for defamation. Emefiele’s lawyer, Matthew Burkaa, in a notice to the Senate President dated February 19, 2024, faulted a “we don’t know what to charge Emefiele with”...
The Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out the petition filed by the Action Peoples Party (APP) against the election victory of Gov. Ahmed Ododo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 11 governorship poll in the state. The three-member...
The Federal High Court 2, Minna, on Monday adjourned a N140 billion ground rent suit filed against North-South Power Company Limited and the Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited, to March 11. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suit was instituted by Niger State Internal Revenue Service...
Hearing of motions on notice filed by Edison Ehie, the Chief of Staff (CoS) to Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers, seeking an order vacating the arrest warrant against him and others could not proceed on Monday. The matter, which was on number six on the day’s cause list...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has restrained the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, and the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) from intruding into the Centenary Economic City Free Zone along Airport Road, Abuja. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgement, also made an injunction order restraining the Federal Capital...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Mr Mele Kolo Kyari, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to “promptly account for and explain the whereabouts of the alleged missing USD$2.04 billion and N164 billion oil revenues.”...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed Monday for the hearing of motions on notice filed by Edison Ehie, the Chief of Staff (CoS) to Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers, seeking an order vacating its earlier arrest warrant order against him and others. Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the...