Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communications, Phrank Shaibu, says that the independence of the judiciary in the United States of America led to President Bola Tinubu’s ultimate defeat at the Northern District of Illinois court. Shaibu said this while reacting to the order by Justice Nancy Maldonado for the Chicago State University to release all of Read More
A Kwara state upper court sitting in Ilorin, Monday granted the popular traditionalist, Abdullazeez Adegbola Tal’Olohun bail. The presiding judge, Justice Sunday Adeniyi while delivering ruling on the ball application, moved by Tal’Olohun’s counsel, Barrister Ademola Banks, said he could proceed to meet his family if he can fulfil all the bail conditions. He ordered Tal’Olohun to provide two sureties Read More
The disclosure last week of the depleting number of justices of the Supreme Court, which is negatively affecting their ability to deliver on their constitutional mandate as the court of last instance, is quite worrisome. This is as Justice Amina Adamu Augie formally bowed out of Nigeria’s apex court, with a call on the National Assembly to carry out a Read More
The legal system is an essential pillar of any ideal and just society desirous of ensuring fairness, equity, and justice for all. Nevertheless, there are instances when the outcome of a legal case may not align with the expectations of one of the parties involved in the litigation. When a lawsuit goes against us, it can be a disheartening experience. Read More
An Owerri Magistrate Court presided over by His Worship, Uche Stella Chukwu, Friday, sentenced a 37-year old man, Chibuzo Peter, to 14 years imprisonment for having unlawful carnal knowledge of three young men, Solomon Sunday, 18, Ezirim Chimezie 18, and Anthony Oparaugo, 19, on August 14, 2023, against the order of nature with their consents obtained by force, threat and Read More
Three days since delivering its judgment on the petition by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, the Court of Appeal has yet to provide lawyers to Atiku and PDP certified true copies of their judgment. This is coming as Atiku and his lawyers have just 14 days to file their Read More
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has struck out the firearm charges against the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. The presiding judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo, on Thursday struck out the charge for want of diligent prosecution. This come after the withdrawal application made by the Director of Public Prosecution of the Ministry of Read More
A civil society organisation (CSO), African Center for Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR), has said that the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, was innocent of the fresh allegations of breach of Procurement Law and unfair advantages in award of contracts being levelled against him by the Federal Government. The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Read More
A housewife, Aishat Abubakar, on Tuesday pleaded with a Sharia Court in Ilorin not to grant an application for divorce by her husband, Yusuf Abubakar. Aishat, accused of infidelity, being grounds for Yusuf wanting the dissolution to their marriage, told the court she still loves her husband. In his application on Monday, Yusuf had told the court that he was Read More
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
Nigerian skit maker, Trinity Guy, has opened up on his experience in prison days following his release. Blueprint had reported that that the Instagram prankster was charged to court and remanded in prison for some weeks over an inappropriate video with a minor. Following his release, Trinity Guy made his first post on his page after almost two months of Read More
Two brothers – Steven Nwadike, and Felix Nwadike were docked in an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for alleged assault and threat to life. The Police charged the defendants, who reside at Mende, Maryland with four counts of conspiracy, assault, threat to life and breach of peace on Thursday. The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Prosecutor, 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
Nigerians are eagerly waiting to see if President Bola Tinubu-led administration will obey the rule of law, as Federal High Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, granted the suspended Cenntral Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, leave to serve the Director General, Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Yusuf Magaji Bichi, the order of court admitting him to bail and Read More
By Erimeruke Okome Eme But for the timely, professional intervention of his immigration lawyer, Mr Ian Macdonald QC, and the grace of two virtuous women, Her Ladyship Mrs Justice May and Her Ladyship Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb DBE, former Delta State governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori would still be in a United Kingdom (UK) prison today, seven years after completing his Read More
Justice Chima Nweze of the Supreme Court and Justice Peter Hoommuk Mallong of the Federal High Court have been confirmed dead. Both Justices died on Sunday July 30, 2023. Separate statements on Monday by the spokesman of the Supreme Court, Dr. Festus Akande, and the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court, Hassan Sulaiman, confirmed the death of the Justices. Sulaiman’s Read More
The Industrial court has ordered three commercial banks to immediately disburse over N1bn in the accounts of Nasarawa state government to 170 pensioners as their retirement gratuity. Justice Isaac Essien gave the orderat the weekend on Friday, while ruling on a creditors judgement case brought before the court against the Nasarawa state government by a group of retirees in Makurdi Read More
The Federal High Court sitting at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Thursday, has dismissed Department of State Services (DSS) request seeking a 14-day “extended detention order” for the suspended Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele. The DSS had on Wednesday filed an application to keep the suspended governor for f the apex bank. The application was based on the new Read More
Lateef Ibrahim A 26-year-old man, Amachi Paul, has been banished to Ogun state by an Osun state Magistrate’s Court, Osogbo, over N920 theft. The convict who was sentenced to 15 days in prison was also ordered to leave the state after serving the jail term. The police prosecutor, Akintunde Jacob, told the court that the convict committed the crime on Read More
A businessman, Mr Raphael Chima, on Tuesday dragged his wife, Joy, before a Customary Court in Jikwoyi because she frequently beats him. He made the allegation in a divorce petition he filed against her before the court. “My wife physically abuses and harasses me. She slaps me at the slightest chanc. She abuses me mentally,” he said. He also told Read More
The Abuja Markets Management Ltd (AMML), has terminated the employment of its managing director, Alhaji Abubakar Faruk. The prolong boardroom crisis took a new twist Monday when Abubakar Maina on behalf of the AMML’s shareholders took the decision despite a valid court injunction. Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, in a judgment on July 10, nullified Faruk’s Read More
Department of State Services (DSS), on Thursday, said it has charged the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwim Emefiele, to court. Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court had earlier in the day ordered the DSS to charge Emefiele to court if they had criminal allegations against him within one week or Read More
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has issued a one week ultimatum to the Department of the State Services (DSS) to either charge the detained Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele to court or set him free. Justice Hamza Muazu of the court issued the order on Thursday while delivering ruling in a Read More
There was widespread jubilation at Asaba country home of the suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, following news of an order granted by an FCT High Court for his release from detention. The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Abuja, Thursday ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to immediately release Emefiele from Read More
There general public has been urged to ignore and discountenance the sinister plots by some individuals seeking to mislead them against the decision of the FCT High Court which cleared Comrade Innocent Bola Audu of the Charges of Human Trafficking brought against him by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). Addressing a press conference Thursday Read More
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