A businesswoman, Maria Yakubu, on Friday dragged her husband, Gana Yakubu, to a Customary Court sitting in Nyanya, for allegedly spreading charm on her bed. The petitioner said this in a divorce petition she filed against her husband at the court. “Since we finished building our new house and...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, known as Mompha, wanted. Recalled that on June 30 2022 that Mompha’s absence stalled his alleged N6 billion money laundering trial before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Ikeja Special Offences Court. The Economic and Financial Crimes...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 60-year- old Ghanaian, Edward Quayson, be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s daughter. The police charged Quayson, who resides at 14, Kalejaiye St., Sasha, Lagos with defilement. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B. O Osunsanmi refused...
Mr. Adegbenga Dada, who is a marine engineer and a prince from Eruku in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, has said his wife demands money before sex. He said this in a suit filed before a Kwara High Court, sitting in Ilorin. Dada is seeking the dissolution...
Brazil forward Neymar faces court dates in Spain just under a month before the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The start of oral arguments in a fraud trial against the 30-year-old has been scheduled for Oct. 17 at a regional court in Barcelona, Spanish media...
A dismissed soldier, Victor Aduba, on Monday denied being accomplices to the crimes of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans. Aduba, a co-defendant, made the denials during the resumption of trial at an Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos while being led in evidence by his defence counsel,...
Two Lagos-based lawyers, Mr Chibuikem Opara and Mr Chris Ayiyi, on Sunday charged the judiciary to improve on service delivery in the coming new legal year. According to the lawyers, it is important to take stock of the judiciary now that the courts are about to embark on annual...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned Prince Dotun Babayemi to stop further legal action against the Governor-elect, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, in the overall interest of the party. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Babayemi contested in the PDP primary in Osun that produced Adeleke as its...
A video clip showing popular Nollywood actor Olanrewaju James (alias Baba Ijesha) sexually assaulting a minor went viral on social media. The 14-year-old is a foster daughter of actress and comedienne Damilola Adekoya (alias Princess). On the same date, Princess reported a case of sexual assault of a minor...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit filed by some aggrieved members of Akwa Ibom Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the nullification of the state’s primaries conducted between May 22 and May 26. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the primary polls were conducted...
The Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court sitting in the Ikeja area has convicted and sentenced Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha to 16 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old minor. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, in a judgment that lasted two hours also convicted...
Absence of convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (a.k.a. Evans) on Wednesday stalled a suit filed against him by a kidnap victim, Chief Donatus Duru. Duru had, in 2018, filed the suit before a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, He is demanding refund of 223,000 pounds he...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been asked to stop the All Progressives Congress (APC) from replacing Kabiru Masari as the running mate to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Shortly after Tinubu emerged as the APC flagbearer, the party submitted Masari’s name to the Independent National...
A divorce-seeking businesswoman, Olayinka Ajanaku, told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday that her husband was fond of making their 10-year-old son gulp alcohol limitlessly. Olayinka told the court that the greatest mistake of her life was falling in love with her estranged husband’s Akinola...
The trial of suspected invaders of the residence of Mrs Mary Odili, retired Justice of the Supreme Court, was on Thursday, stalled in a Federal High Court, Abuja due to the absence of the police counsel, Mathew Omosun. Upon resumed trial, Usman Jubril, who was counsel for the 6th,...
David Nwamini Ukpo, the young man whose name is behind the travails of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, has come out on social media to tell his own side of the story. According to him, he was promised a job in the United Kingdom while he was hustling...
A federal lawmaker Senator Smart Adeyemi has said Senators will not abandon Senator Ike Ekweremadu and some of them are making efforts to reach out to him. He was reacting to allegations of organ harvesting levelled against former Deputy Senate President Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu. The London...
The desperation to save the life of their daughter yesterday landed former Senate Deputy President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka, in London detention. They now face charges bordering on organ harvesting, which attracts a 10-year jail term. The alleged offence involves removing parts of the body against...
Document shows Sen. Ekweremadu applied for kidney transplant visa for David Ukpo, homeless Lagos boy
Document shows Sen. Ekweremadu applied for kidney transplant visa for David Ukpo, homeless Lagos boy
A letter that accompanied the visa application of an alleged homeless child showed Senator Ike Ekweremadu informed the UK authorities that he was taking the person abroad for a kidney transplant for his daughter. The document seen by Peoples Gazette showed Mr Ekweremadu applied for visa for David Ukpo...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday nabbed an alleged fake lawyer, Aladejobi and Aladejobi & Co in Justice Mojisola Dada’s Special offences Court in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the alleged fake lawyer according to findings was said to have...