The National Industrial Court on Monday ordered the Police Service Commission ( PSC), to pay retired AIG Mbu Joseph Mbu, the sum of N40 million as general damages. The payment as ordered by justice Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osaghae, was for the unlawful retirement of Mbu before he attained the mandatory age...
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Mrs Ogbomade Johnson, an All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirant for the Nov. 11 Bayelsa governorship election, has challenged the emergence of Mr Timipre Sylva as candidate of the party for the poll. . Johnson made the prayer in a fresh suit filed by her team of lawyers led by...
A 45-year-old man, Ebuka Emeka, who allegedly threatened his landlady with a knife, was on Friday, arraigned before an Ojo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Emeka is standing trial before Magistrate D.S Odukoya, on a one-count charge of threat to life. The defendant, whose address was not provided, pleaded not...
Mr Timipre Sylva, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 11 governorship election in Bayelsa, says he was never elected as the state’s governor on two occasions. Sylva, the immediate-past Minister of State for Petroleum, refuted the allegations that he was previously elected as Bayelsa...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, awarded a N1 million fine against the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) for unlawful detention of Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (J Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgment, also awarded a N200,...
Mr Clement Onwuenwunor (SAN), the lead counsel for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr Abdulazeez Adediran (Jandor), has accused the West African Examination Council (WAEC) official of compromising evidence in his testimony. The official was subpoenaed by the court to give evidence on the...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 45-year-old businessman, Emeka Orisakwe, to life imprisonment thrice for defiling his three underaged children. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye held that prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt the three-count charge bordering on...
The Federal High Court, Abuja will on Tuesday deliver judgment in Premiere Academy, Lugbe’s suit seeking to stop the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) from investigating the alleged rape and death of its 14-year-old student. The student, Keren-Happuch Akpagher, who was a boarding student of the private...
Witnesses from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, INEC and NECO have testified for Sen. Lawal Adamu-Usman at the Elections Petitions Court in Kaduna. The witnesses told the court presided by Justice HH Kereng, that the academic credentials presented by the Senator representing Kaduna North were valid. Also, an official of...
The 23 Benue local government councils, have vowed to challenge their suspension from office by the state House of Assembly in court. The state House of Assembly had approved the suspension of the councils chairmen over alleged misappropriation of public funds. But, Mr Michael Uba, the chairman of the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of TikTok music celebrity, Crown Uzama, and five others before Justice A. A. Isiaka on a separate one-count charge bordering on criminal impersonation. There offences are contrary to...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned an Ilorin-based associate pastor of the Living Faith Church (aka Winners’ Chapel), Temidayo Eseyin, for allegedly defrauding Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State of N19.3million. Eseyin, a lawyer and former member...
By BASSEY EFFIONG, Calabar – The Calabar Division of the Court of Appeal, on Friday, June 23, 2023 upheld the conviction of Senator Bassey Albert Akpan on money laundering charges by a Federal High Court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and ordered his arrest. This is according to a statement...
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the Feb. 25 presidential election on Friday in Abuja, closed their case at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC). The petitioners closed their case after calling 27 out of the 100 witnesses they had said they would call to...
A Federal High Court in Yenagoa on Friday dismissed a preliminary objection filed by a defence counsel challenging the prosecution powers of the Department of State Security (DSS) to prosecute cybercrimes.cou The DSS had on Oct. 18, 2021 arraigned a teenager before the court on one count charge of...
The Presidential Election Petitions Court has admitted certified copies of the academic and work records of President Bola Tinubu tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The documents include a B.Sc. certificate from Chicago State University, an NYSC Discharge Certificate, and a Mobil...
A divorce-seeking man, Abayomi Oreyemi, has prayed a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his 22-year-old union to his estranged wife, Basirat, on ground of battery and waywardness. Oreyemi, a father of four, made the prayer in his counter- argument against his allegation of irresponsibility, lack...
A Sharia Court in Kano State on Friday, ordered that an unemployed man, Usman Abdullahi, who pleaded guilty to pouring hot tea on another man be remanded in a correction centre. The police Abdulahi, who lives in Sani Mainage Quarters with causing grievous hurt. The Judge, Malam Umar Lawal-Abubakar,...
Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State has prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja to commit the Director-General (DG) of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed, to prison over alleged disobedience to court orders. Mbah prayed the court in a Form 49 filed through his lawyer, Emeka Ozoani,...
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Sokoto State, has adjourned its sitting to July 11 for continuation of hearing, as the PDP governorship candidate, Sa’idu Umar, presented 31 witnesses. Umar approached the tribunal, demanding the nullification of March 18 election that produced Gov. Ahmad Aliyu of APC and his Deputy,...