The Federal High Court sitting in Uyo has convicted and sentenced nine out of 19 persons arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for crude oil theft in Akwa Ibom State. Delivering judgment on Monday, the presiding Judge, Justice Joy Ikpeme found the convicts guilty on two count-charge...
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, on Thursday, August 20, 2026, arraigned the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Brookfield Group Holdings, Olatunji Oluwaseun Adebola,( a.k.a Whitelion) before Justice C. Ngozi of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, for an alleged...
Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, arraigned Gideon Bakpa Aghogho and Oscar Ebere Chukwuebuka before Justice F.N. Ogazi of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, for alleged unlawful supply of bank access credentials. The defendants were arraigned...
Access Bank Plc has approached the Federal High Court in Lagos to recover N1.34 billion allegedly lost through an unauthorised transfer of funds from four customers’ accounts in what the bank described as a suspected cyber fraud incident. The incident, which raises fresh concerns about the financial and cybersecurity...
Justice F.N. Ogazi of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, August 7, 2026, convicted and sentenced four persons to two and six months’ imprisonment respectively for offences bordering on illegal foreign exchange transactions and unlawful trading of naira notes. The convicts; Ahmad Umar Baros, Aminu Umar...
Kebbi State Police Command has confirmed the release of kidnapped High Court Judge, Justice Faruk Hassan Bunza, who was abducted from his residence in Bunza Local Government Area on July 26. According to the Command, the judge’s release was confirmed by his family and the Kebbi State Ministry of...
A fugitive drug kingpin, Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu, and an ex-international football player, Hunkarin Segun George have been convicted and sentenced to a combined total of 24 years imprisonment by Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court, Lagos, for unlawful importation of 7.050 kilograms of cocaine into Nigeria. Chinedu...
The trial of a former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido and his two sons, Aminu Lamido and Mustapha Lamido at the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu was again stalled on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 due to the absence of the lead defence counsel, Joe Agi, SAN. The...
Image Merchants Promotion Limited (IMPR) Managing Director, Yushau A. Shuaib, has announced the forthcoming release of his memoir, Mni vs. Mnipr in NIPSS: Tackling Institutional Bullying, a 205‑page account detailing his controversial experience at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru. The announcement came during IMPR’s mid‑year press briefing,...
Justice Alexandra Owoeye of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, ordered the final forfeiture of 52 terrace and maisonette units located in the Lekki area of Lagos. The properties, located at Mercyville Estate, Covenant Way, off New Road, Ilasan, Lagos, were recovered...
Trial of social media influencer and relationship therapist Okoro Blessing Nkiruka, (a.k.a Blessing CEO) before Justice D.I. Dipeolu of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos was adjourned on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, due to her absence in court. Blessing CEO is facing a two-count charge filed by the...
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday, July 9, 2026, admitted in evidence the extra-judicial statement of a lawyer, Olasubomi Osinusi, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over the alleged forgery of documents relating to the...
Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, July 9, 2026 arraigned a former staff of Access Bank, Chinonso Akujobi, for an alleged N294,595,992 theft before Justice I.O. Ijelu of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. Chinonso is being prosecuted on...
The trial of former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, was on Thursday adjourned until October after the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja suspended proceedings to honour his lead counsel, former Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Kanu Godwin Agabi (SAN), who turned 80 on Wednesday. Justice Sylvanus...
African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) of preventing former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai, from receiving medical treatment, alleging that operatives also assaulted his wife and arrested his personal physician. In a statement signed by its National Publicity...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, June 29, 2026, presented its third prosecution witness (PW3), Levi Amanda Opice, a Compliance Officer with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), in the ongoing trial of Ifoma Immanuel before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, over an...
Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar has described the attempt to deregister the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), through judicial means, as evidence of the desperate determination of President Bola Tinubu to impose a de facto one-party state in Nigeria,...
Federal High Court in Lokoja has nullified the registration of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), removing the party from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s list of recognised political parties. The decision reversed an earlier court order that directed INEC to register the NDC. The judgment followed a legal...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Directorate, have arrested a Nigerian-American, Adegoke Oluwatobi Adams, for an alleged cross-border vehicle import fraud involving more than $320,000 (approximately ₦434.88 million). Adams, who holds dual citizenship of Nigeria and the United States of America, is being investigated...
All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on the successful commissioning of the newly completed Court of Appeal Complex with state of the art amenities, and the 20 unit residential quarters for Court of Appeal...