C A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday dismissed a suit seeking to restrain the Federal Government (FG) from securitising the sum of N22.7 trillion Ways and Means Loan support it got from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that the plaintiffs...
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The trial of the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, continued on Thursday with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) tendering bundles of documents to nail him. Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office and alleged $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud...
Co A High Court in Zuba, Abuja has adjourned until May 21 the trial of the Medical Director, Alliance Hospital, Dr Christopher Otabor, Emmanuel Olorunlaye, Chikaodili Ugochukwu and Dr Aremu Abayomi over alleged organ harvesting. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) charged the defendants...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday adjourned a N1 billion suit filed by the former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr Olu Agunloye, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) until June 24 for hearing. Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after Agunloye’s lawyer, Jedidiah Akpata,...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Thursday admitted Hadi Sirika, former aviation minister and two others to bail in the sum of N100 million each. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned the former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the High Court...
S The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to arraign former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Maitama on Thursday. Sirika, a minister in the administration of former president Muhammadu Buhari, would be arraigned on a...
Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, one of the aspirants for the April 24 Ondo governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says he is heading to court to challenge the outcome of the election. Ibrahim said this at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. He alleged that the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged President Bola Tinubu to immediately direct the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to withdraw the cybersecurity levy on Nigerians as it patently violates the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution 1999 [as amended] and the country’s...
A 16-year old boy, on Tuesday, told an FCT High Court in Zuba that he was given N880,000 cash by Mr Emmanuel Olorunlaye, in Alliance Hospital, Abuja, after his kidney was removed. The teenager made this known while being led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Hassan Tahir....
A 16-year old boy, on Monday, told an FCT High Court in Zuba that he was offered N1 million by Mr Emmanuel Olorunlaye,for his kidney to be removed at Alliance Hospital, Abuja. The teenager made this known while being led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Hassan Tahir....
An Ekiti High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced three convicts to death by hanging for armed robbery. The defendants, Bidemi Babalola, 28, Oluwaseun Akinwale 26, Sola Oyebanji a.k.a Solademmy, 31, Azeez Jimoh a.k.a. Asela, 31, and Babatunde Ogunlade, 28, were arraigned before Justice Lekan Ogunmoye. The five...
A Kano State High Court Division of Appeal on Monday, fixed May 9, to hear a suit filed by a Kano Cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara, who was sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy. NAN reports that an Upper Shari’a Court on Dec.15, 2022, sentenced Abduljabbar to death...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay N1 million in damages to a businessman, Emmanuel Yashim for violation of rights to own property. Delivering judgment, Justice Peter Kekemeke granted the order in a suit filed by Yashim...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike “over their failure to account for N5.9 trillion and $4.6 billion loans obtained by their states and the...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court, on Friday, adjourned until May 9, for defence to study additional proof of evidence submitted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Emefiele...
A High Court in Kano State on Friday granted an exparte order restraining the Nigeria Police from inviting, arresting, and harassing the All Progressives Congress (APC) ward officers behind the suspension of Abdullahi Ganduje. The executives of Ganduje ward, Dawakin-Tofa local government area of Kano state, recently suspended...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday, granted an ex-parte motion for stay of contempt proceedings filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and issued against its Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, by ex- Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi. The Court of Appeal, presided over by Justice...
A Magistrate Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS) to seal off a company, Ifedi A.K. Nigeria Ltd, over allegations bordering on non-filing of annual returns. The Magistrate, Janada Balami, gave the order after lawyer to FCT-IRS,...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has authorised the issuance of notices of contempt proceeding against the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, over alleged failure to obey an order of the court. The notices (Forms 49), requiring Cardoso to show cause why order of committal...
C The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, presented two witnesses in the trial of Binance Holdings Ltd and its two executives before a Federal High Court, Abuja. EFCC’s lawyer, Ekele Iheanacho, informed Justice Emeka Nwite upon resumed trial in the money laundering trial. The News Agency...