The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned the Speaker of Ondo State House Of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Bamidele Oloyeloogun before the State High Court in Akure over alleged fraud. The lawmaker representing Akoko South/West Constituency 1 at the Ondo State House of Assembly, Felemu Bankole, and...
Judiciary
The trial of gun wielding pastor of the House on the Rock Refuge Church, Wuye, Abuja Uche Aigbe, on charges of alleged unlawful possession of firearm, was stalled on Tuesday in Abuja due to absence of his counsel in Court. The counsel, Uche Uzukwu, was not in due to...
A Federal High Court on Tuesday ordered the release of processes and documents in the money laundering trial of a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenandi Usman, and others to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, made an application before Justice...
An Ekiti State Customary Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, has declared as illegal a 22-year-old marriage because payment of dowry was not involved in the union. The supposed marriage is between one Joshua Ajagunigbala and Rita Ajagunigbala. While declaring judgment in the matter between the divorce-seeking lovers, the President...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja has nullified some sections of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020 which were considered to infringe on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizens. Justice James Omotosho, who struck out the sections in a judgment, held that the plaintiff, Mr...
A Magistrates’ Court in Zuba, Abuja, on Thursday remanded the lone anti-Tinubu protester, Obiajulu Uja, in Kuje correctional centre for one month to ascertain his mental condition. Uja debarked from Abuja-Lagos bound Ibom flight for making sensitive statement about President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, Ruling in the application bail, Senior...
Justice Hamza Muazu of an FCT high court sitting at Maitama, on Thursday adjourned until May 12 to rule in the preliminary objection filed by the embattled chairman of Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure and one other The other respondents are the National Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim, Clement Ojukwu and...
A Federal High Court on Thursday admitted Chude Nnamdi, a social media influencer bail in the sum of N10 million. Nnamdi, who was arraigned before Justice Gladys Olotu, pleaded not guilty to a one-count charge of cyberstalking. Justice Olotu also ordered Nnamdi to produce one surety, who must be...
The Police in Lagos on Thursday arraigned two persons, Uchechukwu Uchendu and Onyiyechi Ogbu, for allegedly punching and spitting on an inspector. The defendants appeared before an Ojo Magistrates’ Court on a four-count charge of conspiracy, assault, disorderliness and obstructing lawful duties. They, however, pleaded not guilty before Magistrate...
Two members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have pleaded with an Abuja High Court to void the party’s Governorship Primary election which held on April 11. Mr Realwan Akpanachi and Yahaya Seidu-Nuhu, in an originating Summons filed by their Counsel, Mr Promise Ogbodu, sued six of the contestants...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed May 30 and 31 for continuation of the trial of Ali Bello a nephew to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Bello and three others were arraigned before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)for alleged N3 billion. When...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, restrained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling members perceived to be loyal to Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgement delivered on two separate suits filed by the affected PDP members, held that the fears of...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear an ex-parte motion filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s candidate in the Adamawa governorship election, Sen. Aisha Dahiru-Ahmed, popularly called “Binani.” Justice Inyang Ekwo, instead, ordered the APC candidate’s counsel, Mohammed Sheriff, to address the court on issue...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has pleaded with the abductors of the past president of the body, Chief Okey Wali, SAN, to release him unconditionally. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Wali, was reportedly abducted in the early hours of Monday, on the East–West Road, of Obio/Akpor...
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, Justice Inyang Ekwo said that his removal was unconstitutional and as such the court...
A sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has remanded the founder of ‘I Reign Christian Ministry’, Bishop Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, for allegedly raping two of his church members (name withheld). According to the prosecution, the defendant allegedly committed the offences sometime in June 2020 in Ikota...
There was mild drama, on Monday, at the premises of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Bwari, Abuja, as factional Chairman, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Edozie Njoku, was arrested by the Nigerian police. The arrest followed a complaint by the prosecution lawyer, CSP Ezekiel Rinamsomte,...
A corps member in Oyo State, Ukanwa Ikechukwu, was Friday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court for allegedly swindling a police officer of N235, 000. The police charged the defendant with false pretence andtheft. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Olufemi Omilana,...
An Abuja High Court on Thursday dismissed a suit seeking the nullification of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delegates lists for the governorship primaries scheduled to hold on Friday. Mr Abayomi Awoniyi ,Abdullahi Haruna, SAN, Ruben Atabo , SAN, Mohammed Usman, Musa Wada, Kingsley Lona , Gedion Ojata, Dr...
Sen. Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has described the petition filed by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against his election victory as “a gross abuse of court processes.” Tinubu, in a reply to the petition through his team of lawyers led by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, told...