Police in Benue arraigned a 21-year-old mother, Nguse Nyita before a Makurdi Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for allegedly feeding her one-year-old child with herbicide causing her death. Police prosecutor, Insp Samuel Itodo, told the court that Nguse of Agam Community in Logo Local Government Area of Benue thereby committed...
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The Police on Tuesday arraigned an alleged 35-year old fake medical doctor, Afeez Adegoke, at Ota Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ogun, over hynia surgery that endangered the life of a patient. Adegoke of No. 6 Eri Antena Bus-Stop, Onibukun Ota in Ogun, is facing a two-count charge of false...
The delayed rape trial of Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko resumed in the capital Dakar on Tuesday as his party called for “resistance” and a national shutdown. Security forces patrolled crossroads and enforced a temporary ban on motorcycles as the city braced for another round of protests that have...
Mr Ferdinand Ekeoma, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Abia Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti, on Friday, urged the public to disregard the purported sack of his principal by a Federal High Court in Kano. Ekeoma made the request while reacting to the media report at a news briefing in Umuahia. He...
The Enugu State Governor-elect, Mr Peter Mbah, has filed a N20 billion suit against the National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC) at the Federal High Court, over alleged conspiracy, deceit, and misrepresentation of facts. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that Justice Inyang Ekwo had on Monday, upon a...
A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday grantedan application for extension of remand of afrobeat singer Seun Kuti for additional four days. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Olatubosun, extended Kuti’s remand until May 23. Mr Simon Lough (SAN), who led a police legal team to the court,...
An indigenous woman in Mexico was sentenced to six years and two months in prison for the murder of her rapist. The court acknowledged that the woman, named only as Roxana N, acted in self-defence when she killed her attacker in 2021, but said she used excessive force. The...
A 44- year-old woman, Oluwatoyin Falade, on Wednesday prayed an Orile Agege Customary Court to dissolve her 11-year-old marriage on grounds of infidelity on the part of her husband, Segun. The petitioner, who lives at 23, Tunde Davids Close, Agege, Lagos has two children for Segun, ages, eight and...
There was mild drama at the Presidential Election Petitions Court, (PEPC) sitting in Abuja on Wednesday when two factions of the Labour Party clashed. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that trouble started as early as about 7:45a.m. when both factions, comprising members loyal to factional Chairman, Mr...
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned to Friday, May 19 for continuation of pre-hearing in the petition by presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi against the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu. LP National Chairman, Julius Abure was also in court on Wednesday. The...
A Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Tuesday ordered that a 22-year-old man, Ibrahim Musa, who allegedly stabbed his biological mother, Hajara Mohammed, 50, be remanded in a correction centre.. The police charged Musa, who lives in Bachirawa Quarters Kano, with standing culpable homicide. The Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Rabi’a...
) A U.S. ex-convict, Kolawole Erinle, charged with alleged 1.4 million dollars internet fraud on Monday denied the charges before an Ikeja Special Offences Court. Erinle, a real estate businessman and general contractor for Lafarge Cement told the court that he did not conspire with one Edward Dada (...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said the social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha), charged with N6 billion money laundering had been re-arrested. The EFCC counsel, Mr Suleiman Suleiman, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that the prosecution in collaboration with its international partners had...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Justice O.O.Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced one Abdulmalik Abdullateef to one year imprisonment for stealing. The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had, on April 27, 2023, arraigned 21-year-old Abdullateef...
A divorce-seeking husband, Oyeyinka Adegoke, on Friday passionately pleaded with a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to save him from his wife, Wuraola, whom he alleged was diabolic. Adegoke stated in his testimony that his fortune had nosedived since he exchanged marital vows with Wuraola. He added...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday closed its case against one Onarike Onagoruwa charged with defrauding a woman of five million Naira on the pretext of supplying her coconut oil. Onagoruwa is facing a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretences and issuance of dud cheque, ...
An Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, on Tuesday, remanded a couple, Omolara Alashe, 36 and her husband, Ramoni Lateef, 40 , for allegedly assaulting and raping their 19-year old housekeeper. The couple, who reside in Igbonla, Ketu, Lagos State, are facing trial for alleged rape, assault, stealing...
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has prayed a Federal High Court Abuja to set aside the bench warrant issued against her on July 24, 2020. Alison-Madueke, in a motion on notice brought by her counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon, sought court order...
In what some analysts have described as a “`fall from grace to grass”, former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu was on May 5, sentenced to nine years and eight months in jail after a United Kingdom (UK) court found him, his wife, and his doctor culpable in...
The Court of Appeal in Kano on Friday struck out an appeal filed by the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and its candidate Salisu Yushau,against the re-election of Alhassan Doguwa of the All Progressive Congress (APC). Doguwa represents Doguwa/Tudun-wada Federal Constituency. A three-member panel headed by Justice Ita George-Mbaba,...