High Court in Ibadan has handed down the ultimate sentence to five men found guilty of killing a taxi driver during a violent confrontation in 2024. Justice Oyeyemi Ajayi of the Oyo State High Court, delivering judgment on Monday, ruled that Segun Taiwo (36), Kehinde Ademola (46), Yahaya Adeniyi...
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A key witness in the ongoing trial of former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr. Olu Agunloye, on Monday admitted he could not confirm whether the controversial Mambilla power project award letter was forged. Testifying before an FCT High Court in Apo, Abuja, Assistant Commissioner of Police Umar Babangida—who...
Barely six months after 10 Thai sailors and their ship were convicted and fined $4.3million for bringing 32.9kg cocaine into Nigeria, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have again intercepted another commodity laden vessel- MV Nord Bosporus marked 9760110 from the port of Santos in Brazil...
A Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has slammed two men, Hamza Zakaria and Nurudeen Mohammed Ibrahim, with jail terms after they admitted to playing key roles in a staggering ₦8.56 billion cyber-fraud that compromised the computer systems of a new-generation bank. Justice Rahman Oshodi delivered the verdict on...
A contractor, Chief Uzo Nwosu, has told an FCT Customary Court that he had a sexual relationship with the family’s housemaid because his wife allegedly refused him conjugal access. Nwosu made this claim before a three-member panel chaired by Hadiza Attah while responding to his wife Rebecca’s application asking...
A High Court sitting in Ibadan has fixed December 8 to deliver its ruling on a hotly contested jurisdictional challenge in a suit seeking to halt the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s upcoming National Convention scheduled for this weekend in the Oyo State capital. The suit was instituted by party...
National Judicial Institute (NJI) has clarified that conflicting judgments or orders issued by courts of equal standing should not be interpreted as a collapse of the judicial system. NJI Administrator, Justice Babatunde Adejumo, made the remark on Thursday in Abuja during a media briefing ahead of the 2025 All...
Justice A. Bello of the Kaduna State High Court has adjourned the trial of Polycarp Andrew, a dismissed staff of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) until Dec 11 for hearing. Justice Bello on Wednesday adjourned the case. At the opening of the trial, EFCC’s counsel, H.M Mohammed,...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has clarified that its 2025 National Convention will hold as originally planned and has not been postponed. The National Working Committee (NWC) and the 2025 National Convention Organizing Committee (NCOC), confirmed that the convention is set to take place in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital,...
A Magistrate Court in Abuja on Tuesday adjourned for further hearing a case involving Ms. Uche David Obinali, a 49-year-old businesswoman and niece of former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha. Ms David Obinali is accused of defrauding American-Nigerian philanthropist and politician, Prince Daniel Kanu, of N127 million. According to...
Seven years after the death of 13-year old Ochanya Ogbanje, her family has renewed calls for justice, urging the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to order the arrest of the alleged perpetrator, Victor Ogbuja, who has reportedly been on the run since 2018. In a petition titled “Police Refusal to...
An Ekiti High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday sentenced two persons to death by hanging for armed robbery. The defendants Adejuwon Kehinde, 37 and an ex-convict, Adeniyi Dayo, 35, were arraigned before Justice Lekan Olatawura on Feb. 14, 2023 on a five-count charge bordering on conspiracy, armed robbery...
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, has dismissed the no-case submission filed by social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha, and another defendant in an alleged money laundering case. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Mompha, alongside...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Department of State Services (DSS) has provided an update on the ongoing prosecution of several high-profile terrorism suspects across the country, reaffirming its commitment to ensuring accountability for those responsible for terror-related crimes. The DSS in a statement issued by its Deputy Director, Public Relations...
Federal High Court in Abuja has once again urged Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to begin his defence in the ongoing terrorism-related charges against him. Justice James Omotosho, presiding over the matter, on Tuesday cautioned Kanu about the consequences of his continued refusal...
Meta Platforms, Inc., on Monday, reconciled its differences with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) in the suit it filed to challenge NDPC ‘s $32.8 million fine imposed against it. The NDPC had, on Feb. 18, imposed both a remedial fee of 32,800,000 million US dollars and eight corrective...
BY JOY ADARA, Abuja Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas over “the failure to probe the allegations that lawmakers pay up to ₦3 million to sponsor or present bills,...
In most democratic states, there is always the tendency for citizens to assume, though erroneously, that the exercise of the rights guaranteed under the Constitution is absolute and without limit. Buoyed by such reasoning, some citizens are often tempted to make demands, ranging from the unusual to the absurd,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja Justice S.C. Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court Maitama has adjourned till December 9, 2025 the adoption of written addresses by the prosecution and defence counsel in the trial within trial of a former Minister of Aviation Hadi Abubakar Sirika. Sirika is...
Chidinma Ojukwu, a former Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, has denied ever discussing the death of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Michael Usifo Ataga, with her co-defendant, Adedapo Quadri. Testifying before the Lagos High Court on Monday, Ojukwu told the court during cross-examination by Quadri’s lawyer,...