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...
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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...
A tense scene played out on Thursday at the Federal High Court in Abuja after Justice James Omotosho ordered operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to remove Nnamdi Kanu from the courtroom following a brief standoff. The drama unfolded when Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed...
Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, ordered that the scheduled judgement in the alleged terrorism trial of Nnamdi Kanu be delivered in his absence. Justice James Omotosho, who gave the order, said this was in line with Section Section 266(1)(a) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA),...
There was a brief moment of drama at the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday as the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu openly objected to the court moving ahead with judgment in his ongoing terrorism trial. Just as Justice James Omotosho signaled the...
An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kazeem Yusuf, on Tuesday told the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) that the sum of N4.6 billion from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), meant for the supply of security equipment, was diverted to...
One of the leaders of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) prosecuted by the Department of State Services (DSS) for alleged terrorism, Hussaini Ismaila, has been convicted of offences of terrorism and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Emeka Nwite pronounced the...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday ruled that the trial of two leaders of the Ansaru terrorist group, Mahmud Usman and Abubakar Abba, captured by the Department of State Services (DSS) will begin on January 15, 2026. The trial, which was ingitislly slated to begin on...
Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from proceeding with its national convention, ruling that the event cannot go ahead until former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, is allowed to obtain a chairmanship nomination form. Delivering judgment on Friday, Justice Peter Lifu held that...