A 31-year-old man, Olaoluwa Oni, was on Wednesday, arraigned before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court over alleged housebreaking and stealing. Oni, whose address was not given, is standing trial on a two-count charge of housebreaking and stealing. The police prosecutor, Insp Sodiq Adeniyi, told the court that the defendant committed the offences sometimes in July at about 10:00 a.m., at Alafia Read More
A TikTok user who is identified as Nwakaego Okoye, has landed in jail. She was sentenced to three years imprisonment for cyberstalking Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus. At the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos gave the ruling on Wednesday, Justice Nicholas Oweibo, convicted Nwakaego after she pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of cyberstalking. In a consideration that followed the Read More
A civil society organisation (CSO), African Centre for Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR), has described the rearrest of the suspended CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, by the Department of State Services (DSS) on the grounds of terrorism as void and laughable, saying an earlier court judgement had voided the terrorism allegations him and barred the secret police from arresting him. The Read More
A Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra against the Department of State Services. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that Kanu’s suit lacked merit and ought to be dismissed. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kanu, in the suit marked: Read More
Popular Nigerian Skit maker, Maruf Abdullahi, popularly known as ” Trinity”, has been remanded in the Agodi correction centre for allegedly sexually exploiting a 10-year-old girl. A Family Court in lyaganku, Ibadan on Tuesday ordered that skit maker be remanded. The Magistrate, Mrs P. O. Adetuyibi ordered Abdullahi, 31, Isiaka Ahmed, 40, and his wife Rofiat Ahmed, 29, parents of Read More
After spending 18 months In Kuje prison, the Federal High Court Thursday granted bail to the former head of Rapid Response Team (IRT) of the Inspector General of Police, DCP Abba Kyari. Kyari was taken into custody in February 2022 alongside some members of his team. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) alleged that they tampered with drug exhibits. Read More
A farmer, Festus Williams, 40, was on Wednesday arraigned in Kaduna for allegedly defrauding his friend of N550,000. Williams, who lives at Ungwan Maigero, Kaduna, is charged with criminal breach of trust and fraud. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges before a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court. The prosecutor, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that the complainant, Read More
An Area Court in Jos on Wednesday sentenced John Shedrack, 26, to three months imprisonment for stealing 100 chickens valued at N300,000. The judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to the offence and begged the court for leniency. The judge gave the convict an option of N 20,000 fine or three months imprisonment and asked the Read More
The Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) has accepted certified copies of academic and work records belonging to President Bola Tinubu, which were submitted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and its 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The records before the court revealed that Tinubu registered different names with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The documents, presented on Friday, include Read More
The Lead Counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Barr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has reacted to the publication that his services and that of Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, are no longer needed in Nnamdi Kanu’s case. The reaction was against the backdrop of a statement by Kanu’s younger brother, Kanunta allegedly written on behalf of the family of the detained Read More
The Federal High Court, Abuja Division has fixed Monday 26th of June 2023 to deliver its judgement in the suit filed by Premiere Academy, Lugbe, seeking to stop the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) from investigating the circumstances, which led to the rape and death of 14 year old Keren-Happuch Aondodoo Akpagher. Keren who was a boarding student Read More
The suit filed by five residents of the federal capital territory, who sought to stop the inauguration of Bola Tinubu as president has been dismissed. A federal high court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday June 6, 2023 dismissed the suit. The presiding judge, Inyang Ekwo, ordered the lawyer representing the five residents to pay the sum of N10 million each Read More
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, awarded a N10 million fine against Mr Festus Keyamo, the immediate-past Minister of State for Labour and Employment for filing a frivolous suit against Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate in the Feb. 25 election. Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling, awarded a N5 million fine each in favour Read More
The National Industrial Court in Abuja has halted the planned strike by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on the removal of fuel subsidy. Justice Olufunke Anuwe, on Monday, June 5, 2023, issued a restraining order against the NLC and all its affiliates, prohibiting them from proceeding with the strike scheduled for Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Furthermore, the court has directed Read More
Barely 24 hours after sentencing the proprietor of Odudua University, Ramon Adedoyin, to death by hanging, court has also sentenced receptionist on duty at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on the day a former student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, arrived at the facility, Adedeji Adesola, to two years imprisonment. Her jailed term was made known in Read More
The embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has been reinstated by a state High Court in Edo. The court dismissed the notice of suspension that had been issued against him by certain party members at the ward level. The case was thrown out by Justice Emmanuel Aihamoje, who deemed it lacking merit. Details shortly…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to grant an interim injunction to halt the scheduled swearing-in of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the President of Nigeria on May 29, 2023. Justice James Omotosho delivered the ruling on Friday, stating that the court lacked the jurisdiction to grant the request made in an ex-parte application by three citizens Read More
The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in a matter involving the former acting Director, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Mohammed Dauda, and NIA. In the suit marked: CA/A/1037/2018, NIA is the appellant, while Ambassador Mohammed Dauda is the respondent. Recall that the National Industrial Court had earlier ordered the immediate reinstatement of the dismissed former Read More
The Supreme Court on Thursday April 27, 2023 adjourned the case of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The apex court adjourned the hearing of the case till May. A tweet by the IPOB leader’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor said, “Sadly, the Supreme Court has adjourned the #MNK appeal hearing to next month.” The self-determination Read More
The Federal High Court, Abuja has declared the sack of Sen. Ifeanyi Ararume as Non-Executive Chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) as illegal and unlawful. Delivering judgment in the matter on Tuesday April 18, 2023, Justice Inyang Ekwo said his removal was unconstitutional and as such the court restored him as the Non- Executive Chairman of the Read More
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital has remanded a Journalist, Citizen Agba Jalingo at the medium security custodial center in Kuje for allegedly defaming Elizabeth Frank Ayade, wife of the younger brother of Governor Ben Ayade, in a published article. Jalingo is also accused of having committed an offense punishable by Section 24 (1)b of the Cybercrimes Read More
The application requesting to strike out charges against the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has been dismissed by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday. The presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite dismissed the application on the ground that the court has the exclusive right and power to hear drug-related cases as stipulated in the Constitution of Read More
The Supreme Court on Friday replaced former governor of Kano, Ibrahim Shekarau, as the Senator-elect for Kano Central Senatorial District under the platform of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP). The court affirmed Rufai Hanga as the candidate of the NNPP in the February 25, 2023 National Assembly election. Delivering Judgment in an appeal brought before it by the Independent Read More
Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, and his counterpart in Kogi, Yahaya Bello, are currently in Supreme Court after dragging the Federal Government before the court to address its naira redesign policy. The scarcity of the new naira notes and the short deadline issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had generated tension in the country. Recall that the governors Read More
A Lagos State Magistrate Court has remanded, Mr. Ikechukwu Ogbonna, husband of late Mrs Bimbo Ogbonna in prison on a charge of alleged manslaughter. Bimbo died following severe burns inflicted on her in a fire incident at their home while her husband rather than call for rescue was seen video recording the burning house from outside the premises. Despite development, Read More
Copyright © 2022 | About Us | Online Advert Rates | Mission Statement | Corporate Profile | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Site Map