The trial of former Acting Accountant General of the Federation, AGF, Chukwunyere Anamekwe Nwabuoku before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, December 4, 2025 could not continue due to the absence of lead defence counsel, Norrison I. Quakers, SAN. Nwabuoku is being prosecuted...
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has filed a Notice of Appeal against a judgment of Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja ordering the release of 27 houses to James Ikechukwu Okwete, his company Jamec West Africa Limited In a NOTICE OF APPEAL filed at the...
In a decisive move over an unpaid $1.4 million debt, the Federal High Court in Abuja has appointed a liquidator to oversee the winding up of Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company Limited. The court’s action stems from the company’s failure to settle a debt owed to Zutari Consulting Nigeria...
The trial of Akindele Akintoye, Platforms Capital Investment Partners Limited and Duport Midstream Company Limited continued on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, before Justice Ekerete Akpan of the Federal High Court Abuja, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting its fourth witness. Akintoye and the two companies are...
Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday arraigned activist and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, before the Federal High Court in Abuja on allegations of cyberbullying President Bola Tinubu. Sowore appeared before Justice Mohammed Umar, where he firmly entered a plea of not guilty. Drama unfolded early in the...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Monday, 1 December 2025, re-arraigned Akindele Akintoye before Justice Ekerete Akpan of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on an amended six count-charge bordering on dishonesty and conversion of $35m Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Project, NCDMB Project. The two other...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to hand back 27 houses it seized earlier this year, ruling that the properties were wrongly taken from their owners. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik delivered the verdict in the EFCC-initiated suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/348/2025, setting aside...
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday, November 27, 2025 dismissed a suit filed by former Binance Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Tigran Gambaryan, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), claiming unlawful and prolonged detention. Justice Umar Mohammed dismissed the case, ruling that the court would...
An operative of the Department of State Service, (DSS) on Wednesday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the federal government did not a by time appoint Tukur Mamu to negotiate with terrorists who attacked a train on the Abuja -Kaduna corridor in 2022. Rather, said the DSS...
An operative of the Department of State Service, (DSS) on Wednesday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the federal government did not a by time appoint Tukur Mamu to negotiate with terrorists who attacked a train on the Abuja -Kaduna corridor in 2022. Rather, said the DSS...
Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari on Wednesday firmly insisted that he fully disclosed all his assets — and those of his wife — as required by law, telling a Federal High Court in Abuja that allegations of concealment were fabricated. Kyari, who is on trial for...
Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday adjourned the trial of former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam, until January 20, 2026, for the adoption of final written addresses in his money laundering case. Justice Peter Lifu made the ruling after Suswam and his co-defendant, Omodachi Okolobia, the former Commissioner...
Federal High Court in Abuja has again put the brakes on the cybercrime trial of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as proceedings scheduled for Monday were shelved due to the absence of the presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Umar. The case has now been shifted to February 4, 2025, for the formal...
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has again signalled that the long-running case of the convicted IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is edging toward a political resolution — one he insists is rooted in diplomacy, dialogue and a carefully negotiated plan already in motion. In a statement released in Umuahia by...
Federal High Court (FHC) has dismissed as outright falsehood a viral claim that Justice James Omotosho narrowly escaped an assassination attempt days after sentencing Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment. The rumour, pushed out by a Facebook blogger on Saturday, alleged that the judge was attacked in the early hours...
Human-rights activist and presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has raised alarm over an alleged covert transfer of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to a correctional facility in Sokoto State. Sowore made the claim on his X (formerly Twitter) handle on Monday, warning that the...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday admitted in evidence three video clips supplied by the Department of State Services (DSS) to puncture claims of duress by five suspected masterminds of the 2011 bombing of the United Nations complex in Abuja facing trial. The presiding judge, Justice...
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found him guilty on all seven counts of terrorism brought against him by the Federal Government. The judgment was delivered on Thursday by Justice James Omotosho of the...
The Department of State Services (DSS), has filed Terrorism Charges against seven key commanders of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), linked to Simon Ekpa before a Federal High Court in Abuja. In the three separate cases, FHC/ABJ/CR/632/2025; FHC/ABJ/CR/633/2025 and FHC/ABJ/CR/634/2025, filed on 19 November, the seven suspects were accused...
Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday found the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, guilty of the terrorism charge filed against him by Federal Government. Justice James Omotosho said he convicted Kanu, for what he described as “uncontroverted evidence” that was adduced...