A Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, okayed a N10 million fresh suit filed by a lawyer, Festus Onifade, against MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, the operators of DStv and Gotv. Onifade, in the amended originating summons, also sought the order of the tribunal directing...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged Macmillan Nigeria Publisher, Prof. Adesanya Adelekan, and one Bola Fasasi with $156, 700 book fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that EFCC arraigned Fasasi on Monday in Lagos and said that Adelekan was at large. The defendants are...
The trial of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode could not go on at the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday due to the absence of his lead counsel, Mr Ahmed Raji, SAN. At the resumed hearing, the Prosecution Counsel, Mr Farouk Abdullah told the court that the business of...
An Aiyetoro High Court in Ogun has sentenced one, Adelake Bara, to death by hanging on Monday for shooting and killing one Olaleye Oke, whom he accused of having illicit affairs with one of his three wives The court convicted Bara on a one-count charge of murder. Delivering judgment,...
A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 34-year-old native doctor and driver, who resides Behind Mobile Barracks, Makurdi, Benue State for allegedly defiling a minor who came for treatment. The Magistrate, Mr. Vincent Kor, didn’t take Iordye Edwin’s plea for want of jurisdiction. Kor ordered that the defendant...
The Lagos State Police Command has charged three suspects to court for allegedly beating a prostitute, Hannah Saliu, to death and setting her corpse ablaze for keeping the Holy Quran in her room. It was gathered that one of the suspects patronised Saliu and after having sex with her,...
Ex-president Donald Trump and his eldest children are scheduled to testify in New York’s civil probe into alleged fraud at their family business from July 15, a court document showed Wednesday. New York state attorney general Letitia James and her team of investigators will have to conclude their questioning...
Popular Kannywood actress, Hadiza Gabon, has been dragged before a Shari’a Court in Kaduna by a 48-year-old civil servant, Bala Musa, on Monday, for allegedly refusing to marry him. The complainant told the court that he had been in a relationship with the actress and she promised to marry...
Some members of the All Progressives Congress, under the aegis of Gaskiya Youth Movement, are asking the federal high court in Abuja to disqualify the former Lagos State Governor and presidential aspirant, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, from the party’s presidential primary, scheduled for Monday 6th and 7th. The members made...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Over 200 students from the Engineering Faculty of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have dragged the university management, and five others to court, claiming over N500 million as general damages and special expenses for breach of trust and others. The case which was instituted by...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday dismissed the no-case-submission applications filed by two oil marketers charged with receiving $8.4 million from oil theft. The defendants, Yusuf Yaya Kwande and Osahon Asemota and their companies are being prosecuted by the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU). The News Agency of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Following the controversy surrounding the “supposed political ambition” of the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Human & Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Center) is seeking an interpretation of section 9 of the CBN...
) A Lagos High Court on Friday sentenced a Dane, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his Nigerian wife and daughter. Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile convicted Nielsen, 54, on two counts of murder brought against him by Lagos State Government. The judge sentenced Nielsen to death by hanging on...
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court has ordered the remand of a 33-year-old man, Baderinwa Waheed, who allegedly stole an N-Power beneficiary’s five months stipend. The defendant, whose address was not provided, is charged with forgery, stealing and fraud. According to the prosecutor, Mr Olaolu Olayinka, the defendant committed the...
An Upper Area Court in Ilorin on Thursday permitted a landlord, Mr Bakinde AbdulWaheed, to break open and change the locks on his tenant’s apartments door over his disappearance for three years. The presiding Judge, Mr Moshood Ajibade, gave the order after AbdulWaheed, reported that his tenant disappeared for...
A 62-year-old retired banker, Mr Kazeem Ogidan on Wednesday sought the dissolution of his 36-year-old marriage to wife, Risikat in an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos. In his petition, Ogidan, accused his wife of beating him. Ogidan, who resides in Lowcost Estate in Ikorodu, begged the court to grant...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has been told to resign from office instead of supporting the “watery” charges instituted against suspected killers of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN made the call in a Facebook post on Monday. Adegboruwa said...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Monday, asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to take a critical look at the development in its suit to know if it could still continue with the case. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the advice after counsel to the PDP, Joseph Daudu, SAN,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, re-arraigned, Haruna Jauro, a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), before a Federal High Court Lagos over alleged N156.4 million money laundering. The defendant was arraigned alongside one Dauda Bawa and Thlumbau Enterprises Ltd., on...