The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday dismissed the order of a Rivers high court which restrained Martin Amaewhule and 24 others from parading themselves as lawmakers of the state assembly. In the appeal, marked: CA/PH/198/2024, the pro-Wike lawmakers urged the appellate court to stay the execution...
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The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Thursday, reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s candidate, Muritala Ajaka, and his party in the Nov. 11 Kogi governorship election challenging the judgement of the State’s Election Petition Tribunal. The tribunal had, on May 27, affirmed...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo has said the Federal High Court’s judgment on its primaries does not affect its governorship candidature in the coming governorship election in the state. The party stated in Benin on Thursday that Dr Asue Ighodalo remained the PDP governorship candidate in...
A Kano State High Court, on Thursday, restrain lawyers from granting media interviews in the ongoing Kano Emirates Tussle case. The Presiding Judge, Justice Amina Adamu-Aliyu, gave the order during the court proceedings. “I am giving an order to lawyers not to grant any interview to journalists before...
Senators from the South East met with the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, to demand the release of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu. The senators made the call on Wednesday in Abuja during...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied discussing the release of Nnamdi Kanu with the South East governors in Enugu on Tuesday. This is contained in a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to the former President, Kehinde Akinyemi on Wednesday in Abeokuta. He said that contrary to...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the closure of two companies linked to the alleged 9.6 billion dollars Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd scandal. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two companies are Trinity Biotech Nigeria Limited and Resorts Express Concept Nigeria...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) official, Mrs Tosin Olagunju, in Suleja Correctional Centre pending the hearing of her bail application scheduled for Oct. 9. Justice Binta Nyako gave the order after Olagunju was arraigned...
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minster of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has taken over the trial of Mr Chinenye Duru, a Polaris Bank staff and account officer to Mr Victor Onukogu, in the alleged N6.6 billion fraud. AGF’s counsel, V.J. Alma, told Justice Inyang Ekwo of...
A Kano State High Court on Tuesday , adjourned until July 4, hearing in an applications in the ongoing Kano Emirship Tussle case. The Attorney General of Kano State, Speaker Kano State House of Assembly and Kano State House of Assembly, through their counsel Ibrahim Isah-Wangida Esq, filed...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, dismissed a N1 billion suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against the Federal Government and Department of State Services (DSS). Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that Kanu failed...
An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Idi Musa, on Monday testified against a social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha popularly known as Mompha, charged with six billion Naira money laundering. Mustapha, still at large, is standing trial alongside his company, Ismalob Global Investment Ltd.,...
An Ikeja High Court on Monday ordered the release of a man, Kazeen Adeshina, after spending 15 years in a correctional facility without charge or trial. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oyindamola Ogala, while ruling in a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked No: D/16997MFHR/24...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), “to account for and explain the whereabouts of the over N100 billion ‘dirty and bad notes’ and ‘other large sum of cash awaiting examination’ which...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raised contempt counsel charges against two defence counsel in the N80.2billion alleged money laundering charges against a former governor of Kogi State, Mr. Yahaya Bello. Bello is facing prosecution alongside his nephew, Ali Bello, Dauda Suleiman...
My wife used fasting & prayer to starve me of sex –says pastor arrested for defiling 7-old housemaid
My wife used fasting & prayer to starve me of sex –says pastor arrested for defiling 7-old housemaid
A 65- year old man, Francis Ogwu, has been handed over to the police for allegedly defiling his seven-year old girl domestic help. The suspect, Ogwu, was arrested following an alarm raised by concerned residents of the town. The media aide to Anambra Commissioner for Women...
A former commercial bank staff, Mr Ugochukwu Otubelu, on Wednesday, revealed how he managed the security vote account under ex-Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra government. Otubelu, who said he is now a businessman, told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja that he was with the...
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Wednesday, remanded two men – Temitope Arinola, 45, and Mufutau Kola, 42 – who allegedly strangled and dismembered a woman. The defendants, who have no fixed address, are charged with conspiracy and murder. The Magistrate, Mrs Adebola Adeola, did not...