The Lagos State Police Command has charged three suspects to court for allegedly beating a prostitute, Hannah Saliu, to death and setting her corpse ablaze for keeping the Holy Quran in her room. It was gathered that one of the suspects patronised Saliu and after having sex with her,...
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Ex-president Donald Trump and his eldest children are scheduled to testify in New York’s civil probe into alleged fraud at their family business from July 15, a court document showed Wednesday. New York state attorney general Letitia James and her team of investigators will have to conclude their questioning...
Popular Kannywood actress, Hadiza Gabon, has been dragged before a Shari’a Court in Kaduna by a 48-year-old civil servant, Bala Musa, on Monday, for allegedly refusing to marry him. The complainant told the court that he had been in a relationship with the actress and she promised to marry...
Some members of the All Progressives Congress, under the aegis of Gaskiya Youth Movement, are asking the federal high court in Abuja to disqualify the former Lagos State Governor and presidential aspirant, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, from the party’s presidential primary, scheduled for Monday 6th and 7th. The members made...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Over 200 students from the Engineering Faculty of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have dragged the university management, and five others to court, claiming over N500 million as general damages and special expenses for breach of trust and others. The case which was instituted by...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday dismissed the no-case-submission applications filed by two oil marketers charged with receiving $8.4 million from oil theft. The defendants, Yusuf Yaya Kwande and Osahon Asemota and their companies are being prosecuted by the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU). The News Agency of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Following the controversy surrounding the “supposed political ambition” of the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Human & Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Center) is seeking an interpretation of section 9 of the CBN...
) A Lagos High Court on Friday sentenced a Dane, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his Nigerian wife and daughter. Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile convicted Nielsen, 54, on two counts of murder brought against him by Lagos State Government. The judge sentenced Nielsen to death by hanging on...
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court has ordered the remand of a 33-year-old man, Baderinwa Waheed, who allegedly stole an N-Power beneficiary’s five months stipend. The defendant, whose address was not provided, is charged with forgery, stealing and fraud. According to the prosecutor, Mr Olaolu Olayinka, the defendant committed the...
An Upper Area Court in Ilorin on Thursday permitted a landlord, Mr Bakinde AbdulWaheed, to break open and change the locks on his tenant’s apartments door over his disappearance for three years. The presiding Judge, Mr Moshood Ajibade, gave the order after AbdulWaheed, reported that his tenant disappeared for...
A 62-year-old retired banker, Mr Kazeem Ogidan on Wednesday sought the dissolution of his 36-year-old marriage to wife, Risikat in an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos. In his petition, Ogidan, accused his wife of beating him. Ogidan, who resides in Lowcost Estate in Ikorodu, begged the court to grant...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has been told to resign from office instead of supporting the “watery” charges instituted against suspected killers of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN made the call in a Facebook post on Monday. Adegboruwa said...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Monday, asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to take a critical look at the development in its suit to know if it could still continue with the case. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the advice after counsel to the PDP, Joseph Daudu, SAN,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, re-arraigned, Haruna Jauro, a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), before a Federal High Court Lagos over alleged N156.4 million money laundering. The defendant was arraigned alongside one Dauda Bawa and Thlumbau Enterprises Ltd., on...
Three aspirants have sued the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over threats to disqualify them from participating in the 2023 general election. The aspirants-Mr Sodique Abubakar, Mr Sodique Lawal Abubakar and Mr Bindir Buba are praying the Federal High Court, Abuja to stop...
A farmer, Mr Williams Famuyibo, on Wednesday prayed a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his 32-year-old marriage to estranged wife, Sola because she frequently beats him. Famuyibo, who resides in Ibadan, said he can no longer tolerate the beatings. “I ran away from our home...
Three male and a female teacher of the Chrisland School Lagos, were on Tuesday docked in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ court in Lagos for allegedly concealing a sex tape of a student. The police charged Oladotun Sotunde, 56; Elesho Tajudeen;32, Rhoda Olanipekun; 45, and Ajigboye Hammed, 41 with two...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, asking the court to “declare illegal, and incompatible with the oath of office, and public interest the recent pardon granted to former governors of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye, and...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday dismissed a no-case submission by Victor Aduba, charged along with kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aduba, an ex-soldier and Evans are charged with kidnapping a businessman, Mr Sylvanus Ahamonu, and collecting a $420,000...