National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Edozie Njoku, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to prevail on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to obey orders of courts, affirming him as national chairman. Chief Njoku also urged the Attorney-General of...
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A 42-year old man, Victor Adenegan was on Wednesday docked in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, for allegedly sodomising two men. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendant, Adenegan who resides in Moniya area in Ibadan charged with sodomy and attempted sodomy. The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Wednesday in Abuja, arraigned the immediate-past governor of Anambra, Willie Obiano, on a nine-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering to the tune of N4 billion. Obiano, however, pleaded not guilty to all counts when the charge was read to him. Following,...
A Deputy Director with Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Mr Yisa Usman, has filed a N150 million suit against the board over alleged unlawful dismissal. Usman, in the suit marked: NICN/ABJ/266/2023 and filed by his lawyer, Oseini Bamigbaye from the Chambers of Mohammed Shuaibu, at the National...
A Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) governorship aspirant in Ogun during the 2023 general elections, Segun Sowunmi has dragged the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to court for failing to convene a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting. Sowumi filed the suit marked (FHC/ABJ/CS/T024) at the Federal High...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced a man, Ademola Oladimeji to four life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his three children. The children were aged five, seven and nine. Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye, held that the evidences of the respective prosecution witnesses were...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, set aside the Rivers’ N800 billion budget passed by five members of the house led by the Edison Ehie-led faction. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that the presentation of the appropriation bill by Gov. Siminalayi Fubara on Dec. 13, 2023...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 20 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas “for unilaterally and arbitrarily increasing the allocation for lawmakers from N197bn to N344bn,...
A businesswoman, Mrs Halima Damina, on Friday dragged her husband Jacob before a Customary Court in Jikwoyi, FCT, accusing him of throwing her out of their matrimonial home. She said this in a divorce petition she filed against him in the court. ”Some time ago, I visited my...
An Ikeja high court on Friday denied bail to a cleric, Elijah Emenandy, charged with sexual assault of his church member. Emenandy had applied for bail, citing health challenges. According to his counsel, Ms C. E. Ezemba, Emenandy is suffering from high blood pressure, which required medical attention....
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Friday, ordered Mr Chinenye Duru, a Polaris Bank staff and account officer to Mr Victor Onukogu, to be remanded in a correctional facility over alleged N16.6 billion fraud. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order after Duru was arraigned by the office...
A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Thursday, adjourned until March 5, for re-arraignment of three persons charged with N26.4 million fraud. The defendants are Ayoola Kelani, Chizoba Emesiana and Sodiq Hassan. They are charged on seven counts bordering on obtaining money by false pretences, forgery, money laundering...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr Kayode Ajulo, has filed a suit seeking to stop Gov. Similalaye Fubara of Rivers from re-presenting the 2024 budget to the state House of Assembly. The SAN asked the court to stop such a move pending the hearing and determination of...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police to pay a woman, Mrs Mary Kajo, the sum of N100 million over the arrest, unlawful detention, torture and alleged death of her husband, Mark Kajo. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, also ordered the police...
There was a mild drama on Wednesday in a Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court in Abuja when a housewife, Sa’adatu Ayuba, prayed the court to disregard her earlier plea for divorce. The petitioner, who sought for divorce on grounds of impotence, said she married her husband Jalija 27...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arraigned an Assistant General Manager of Skyway Handling Company (SAHCO), Olajide Kafidipe, and seven other employees of the company before a Federal High Court, Lagos for alleged drug trafficking. The NDLEA docked Kafidipe and others before Justice Deinde Dipeolu...
An Investigating Police Officer (IPO), ASP Lawrence Ojo, on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how a man, Uduak Asangasi, allegedly defiled his wife’s niece. The minor is aged 12 years. Asangasi is standing trial on a two-count charge of defilement and indecent treatment...
Former Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen has apologised to Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over her “kangaroo judgment’ comments. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that an FCT High Court had in a judgment on Dec. 18,2023, barred Tallen from holding public office, in a case, filed...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, ordered Mr Suleiman Dabo, the immediate-past member of Kaduna State House of Assembly representing Zaria Constituency, to be remanded in Kuje Correctional Centre pending ruling in his bail plea. Justice James Omotosho gave the order following Dabo’s arraignment...