The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday prayed the Federal High Court, Abuja to transfer the fresh trial of former Abia governor and two others in an alleged N7.1 billion fraud to Lagos. The application seeking the transfer was brought pursuant to Sections 19, 22 and 45...
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An Upper Area Court in Makurdi on Thursday ordered that a herbalist, Eze Okereke, 41, be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged defiling a 15-year-old deaf-mute neighbour’s daughter. The police charged Okereke with defilement. However, when the case came up for mention no plea was taking for want...
No fewer than 20 lawyers have expressed desire to defend the suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Musa Shafiu, a legal practitioner, who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday, on behalf of other lawyers, said the lawyers are ready to defend Kyari in a suit filed by the National Drug Law...
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has fixed March 31, June 8 and June 9 for trial of a former vice chairman and six councillors of the Kuje Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory. Mr Duda Ismaila, Mr Yunusa Salihu, Mr Dantani Musa, Mr Maikasuwa Magaji, Mr Samson...
A medical doctor, Mistura Shogunle, on Wednesday narrated before an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court how a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in her neighbourhood. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Shogunle testified at the trial of a 20-year-old fashion designer, Rasheed...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The trial of Bar Ugoji Nwabueze over alleged impersonation as President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Cross River Chapter was on Tuesday stalled. This followed the inability of Nwabueze’s counsel, Prof. Jacob Dada to provide the authority he cited in the last sitting. The Inspector General of...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out the motion filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to further detain suspended DCP Abba Kyari and six others for 14 days. Justice Zainab Abubakar struck out the application after counsel to the NDLEC, S. S. Obot, informed...
The Government of the Republic of Benin has released Yoruba Nation Activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Ighoho. Professor Banji Akintoye, a Yoruba Leader and Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide’s Umbrella Body of Yoruba Self-determination Groups, and Professor Wale Adeniran, a French Language Expert/Deputy Alana of...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday, stopped President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Senate President from tampering with the newly amended Electoral Act 2022. Justice Inyang Ekwo in a ruling on an ex parte application by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) agreed that the...
Mrs Bukola Ajayi, a legal practitioner, says adultery is the most common reason divorce-seeking spouses have cited for the dissolution of their marriages. “Ninety-five per cent of those seeking a divorce in courts made allegations of adultery against their spouses,’’ she said. Adultery is the most difficult breach of trust...
A Los Angeles judge has granted reality TV star, Kim Kardashian’s request to be declared legally single from rapper Kanye West, after nearly eight years of marriage. The businesswoman and star of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” filed for divorce a year ago, citing irreconcilable differences with West, who...
A Kenyan woman, Edda Wakesho, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for filming herself sexually molesting a 4-year-old boy and posting it online. The 21-year-old househelp in Kiembeni Estate, Mombasa, filmed herself engaging in the act with the minor and later posted it online for financial gain. On Wednesday,...
Innoson Nigeria Ltd, Nigeria’s foremost indigenous Auto Industrialist has expressed its concerns about the new trend in its long-running legal battles with GTB (Guarantee Trust Bank Plc.). Innoson Nigeria Ltd is concerned about the interference of EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) in the legal matters in a manner...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State on Wednesday rejected the results of the Akpabuyo State Constituency byelection following the discovery of mind-boggling malpractices and electoral frauds perpetuated by the opposition Peoples democratic Party (PDP). In a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary...
The trial of Abubakar Ali Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, for alleged N1.4billion fraud, before Justice Christopher Balogun of the Lagos High Court Ikeja, was again, stalled on Monday, as the counsel for the defendant, Osagie Isiramen, told the court that the defence was not ready to...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State on subpoenaed an officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Deputy Superintendent of the Correction (DSC) J.O. Oyaleke over his failure to produce a defendant in court. The defendant, Otuyalo Oluwadamilola, is being prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Command of the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is working on plans to challenge the impeachment of Zamfara deputy governor, Alhaji Mahdi Aliyu by the state House of Assembly from office. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba in Abuja, said that the impeachment by...
Former militant leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, Asari Dokubo has threatened to kill Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Dokubo, while responding to reports that he was ‘beaten’ by some members of the group, threatened that the day such...
An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday, granted the divorce prayer of Mr Adeola Ajatoye, on grounds that his wife, Chottia, was ”greedy and demanding”. Ajatoye, who resides on Afeez Eyinileaso St., Akesan, Lagos approached the court on Dec. 14, 2021, praying for divorce on grounds that his...
An FCT Family Court sitting at the Magistrate District, Wuse Zone II, Abuja, has restrained Precious Chikwendu, from making comments that could lead to identification of children whose custody issues have been submitted before it for determination. Chiwendu is the former wife of ex-Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode,...