A Federal High Court, Abuja has nullified the removal of Alhaji Abubakar Faruk as the Managing Director of the Abuja Markets Management Ltd (AMML) by the Board Chairman, Abubakar Maina and the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mohammed Bello. Justice Donatus Okorowo, in a judgment, held that...
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An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Monday, sentenced a 56-year-old driver, Folarin Raufu, to life imprisonment for defiling his employer’s granddaughter, aged five years. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye held that prosecution successfully proved all the ingredients of defilement against...
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Ibadan has adjourned hearing of the application by Allied Peoples’ Movement Party (APM) seeking to withdraw the petition challenging Makinde’s victory to Thursday. The APM had approached the tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaration of Makinde of Peoples Democratic...
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta, has admitted in evidence documents tendered by Chief Kenneth Gbagi, the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the March 18 governorship election in the state. At the tribunal sitting on Saturday, the three-man panel, led by its...
An Ikeja High Court has refused the bail application of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Oluwaseun Osibanjo, who allegedly caused grievous harm and involuntary manslaughter by running into a moving train. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oyindamola Ogala gave the ruling on Friday in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, admitted suspended DCP Abba Kyari to a N50 million in a charge filed against him and two others by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). in which he and two of his siblings are accused of failing to declare assets to...
The Lagos State on Wednesday arraigned a 17-year-old boy before an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for allegedly abducting and defiling a 15-year-old girl. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minor is charged with three counts of defilement, abduction from custody of parent and...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Idris Wada-Saleh, be remanded in Kano State Public Complaints and Anti Corruption Commission(PCACC) Custody over alleged N1 billion fraud. The defendant, a former Commissioner to Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, is charged with giving false information and cheating. Chief Magistrate...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday, joined the Federal Ministry of Education in a suit filed by a Seventh-day Adventist member seeking to stop the conduct of examinations and elections on Saturdays. The court also joined the Council of Legal Education to the suit following an application by...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Ovom in Yenagoa, on Tuesday, remanded a 30-year-old man, Kingsley Solomon, for allegedly stealing a two-month old baby. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Sarah B.I. Avoh, ordered that the defendant should be kept at a correctional facility at Azikoro in Yenagoa Local Government Area....
A compliance officer at Access Bank Plc., Mr Elijah Adegboye, on Monday testified in the trial of social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha), charged with laundering six billion Naira. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mompha was not present during Monday’s proceedings. Adegboye was led in...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Enugu Zonal Command, has secured the conviction of 16 internet fraudsters before Justice F.I. Riman of the Federal High Court sitting in Akwa, Anambra State. The EFCC in a statement on Monday, said they were...
Absence of Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatubosun of a Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, on Monday stalled proceedings in an assault case brought against afrobeat singer Seun Kuti. The News Agency of Nigeria NAN) reports that Kuti and his counsel, as well as prosecution team, were in court but...
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...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a prominent civil society organization, is demanding the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s) compliance with a recent court judgment in their favor. The judgment, relating to the case of “Incorporated Trustees of HEDA Resource Centre...
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...
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,...
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...
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...