he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday opened its case in the trial of the suspended Central Bank Governor (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, on procurement fraud charge in an FCT High Court in Abuja. The anti-graft agency had charged Emefiele with amended 20 counts of criminal conspiracy, conferring...
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A Benue High Court, presided over by the Chief Judge of the State, Maurice Ikpambese, has ordered the reinstatement of Mr Austin Agada, as Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ikpambese gave the order on Monday, while ruling on a motion seeking to set aside the...
A Nigerian, Mr Chianugo Peter, on Monday disagreed with Google LLC, an American multinational technology company, over allegation that his 150 million dollars suit is frivolous and unmeritorious. Peter, through his counsel, Emmanuel Ekpenyong Esq. of Fred-Young & Evans LP, told Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded a 13- year-old boy in a Borstal Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s daughter . The Chief Magistrates, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi refused to take the minor’s cplea. She ordered him to be remanded in Borstal Correctional center until April...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas over “the failure to disclose, clarify and explain the details of N344.85 billion National Assembly budget, and the...
Former Managing Directing, Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Plc, Mr Aliyu Abdulhameed, will be arraigned by the police on March 13 on allegations bordering on document forgery. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the arraignment, which was earlier fixed for Wednesday, could...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit filed by Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa, seeking protection against arrest, detention or prosecution by the police and others. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgement, dismissed the suit for lacking in merit. Justice...
A civil servant, Jamilu Zuntu, on Thursday demanded the sum of N7 million from his wife, Hadiza Aliyu, to grant her divorce request. Hadiza is seeking a dissolution of the three-year-old marriage at a Shari’a court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna. He told the court that he had spent...
A federal High Court, in Abuja has granted an order permitting a former governorship aspirant of the PDP in Ogun, Mr Segun Sowunmi to serve the National Chairman of the party, Mr Illiya Damagum court processes through substituted means. Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon gave the order on Thursday while ruling...
A 21-year old man, Justice Ikeocha, on Thursday appeared before a Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly accumulating N304,500 while lodging in a hotel and refused to pay. Ikeocha is facing a two-count charge of obtaining by false pretences and incurring debt by false pretences. He, however, pleaded not...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Justice R.I.B. Adebiyi of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has adjourned till February 27 and 28, 2024 an alleged N754.8 million fraud against a former Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Patrick Akpobolokemi and former Executive Director, NIMASA,...
The trial of a former Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi, charged with alleged N754.8 million fraud on Wednesday suffered a setback due to the absence of the defence witness. Akpobolokemi is standing trial alongside Ezekiel Agaba, a former Executive Director of NIMASA, on...
Mr Aliu Abubakar, father of a nine-year-old boy who was kidnapped, has told an Ikeja High Court that his son was traumatised when he returned home and could not speak. Abubakar said this at the ongoing trial of three men, Lima Auwal, Abdullah Usman and Seidu Abbas, charged...
The Pastor of Kingdom Power International Christian Praying Centee Ishashi, Lagos, Azuka Ohez and his wife, Mary Ohez, have been remanded by a Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court Lagos. The couple were remanded on Wednesday for allegedly aiding in defrauding a lubricant company of N33.8 million. The defendants of no...
An Enugu State High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced one Miss Chiamaka Ifezue to death by hanging for killing Miss Ijeoma Nweke, a make-up artist on Nov. 11, 2020 The court, presided over by Justice Kenneth Okpe, in a two-hour judgment, found the accused guilty of killing the deceased...
TKJ (not real name), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)’s star witness, on Tuesday, stated that Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), pressurised her to trade her virginity in exchange for an admission into the institution....
There was a mild drama in the Federal High Court in Abuja as a prosecution witness, Mr Rabiu Tafada in the ongoing alleged N10 billion fraud charge against Ali Bello, nephew of former Kogi Governor, suddenly told the court that he was not feeling well. Tafada, who is...
An FCT High Court on Tuesday ordered that a man, Olaniyi Adegboro be remanded in Kuje Corrections Centre for allegedly stabbing ASP Ayuba Zakari to death. The police charged Adegboro with murder. Following the prayer of the prosecution counsel for a date to open his case, Justice Peter...
Ladi Adebutu, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the 2023 general election in Ogun, was, on Tuesday, arraigned before a state High Court sitting in Abeokuta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adebutu was arraigned, alongside nine others, even as the Federal Government amended the...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a 54-year old man, Michael Uduigwome, in the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his eight-month old daughter. Uduigwome, who lives on Rasaq Balogun St., Surulere, Lagos State, is charged with defilement. The Chief Magistrate, O...