A 32-year-old man was sentenced to three years in prison for putting liquid bathroom cleaner into the intravenous drip line of another patient for unclear reasons while in hospital for burn treatment. Sources said on Tuesday that the man committed the crime at a hospital in Daejeon, about 160...
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The suspended DCP, Abba Kyari, says the allegation linking him to an international drug cartel by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is untrue. Kyari disclosed this in an affidavit in support of his motion ex-parte marked: FHC/ANJ/CS/182/22 and filed before Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, refused to grant an application for bail filed by the suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who declined to grant the plea in a motion ex-parte brought by Kyari’s Lawyer, C. O. Ikena, ordered that the respondent, National Drug Law Enforcement...
Detained Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, has dragged the Federal Government before a Federal High Court in Abuja challenging his continued detention by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, Kyari who is currently on suspension from the Nigerian Police Force is seeking an...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, dismissed the suit seeking to challenge former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s eligibility to vie for the office of the president. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, dismissed the suit on the grounds that the plaintiff that instituted the case lacked the locus standi...
A Chief Magistrate’s Court, sitting in Kano, on Friday remanded a 33-year-old man, Abubakar Aminu, in a correctional centre for allegedly throwing a four-year-old boy, Abdulmalik Suleiman into a well. The defendant, who lives at Rijiyar Lemo Quarters in Kano, is standing trial on a charge of attempt to...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday objected to an application for examination of the iPhone SIM slot of a musician, Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley, charged with cybercrime. EFCC counsel, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, raised the objection during cross-examination of the second prosecution witness, Mr Augustine Anosike,...
The trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu resumed on Wednesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja with him wearing his regular Fendi outfit. This is contrary to the order made by Justice Binta Nyako in December 2021 that he be...
A High Court sitting in Akamkpa, Cross River has sentenced Ayanime Udo to death by hanging for killing his twin daughters on allegation of being witches. Delivering judgment on the case with suit number HK/6C/2018, Justice Agnes Onyebueke said; “Udo’s act is satanic, demonic, and beyond human comprehension.’’ She...
The Department of State Services, on Wednesday, complied with the advice of a Federal High Court, Abuja, not to block the court premises and environs ahead of the trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
The trial of former National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, in the alleged N400 million fraud has been reassigned to a new judge. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Obiora Egwatu of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, had fixed Oct....
The Federal High Court in Yenagoa on Monday adjourned until March 22, hearing in a N 700 billion oil spill compensation suit filed by members of Aghoro I community in Bayelsa. The people of Aghoro I in Ekeremor Local Government Area (LGA) in Bayelsa sued Shell Petroleum Development Company...
A businessman, Mr Uchenna Okolie, In Thursday prayed a Customary Court in Jikwoyi to grant him divorce on grounds that his marriage has been ruined by his mother-in-law. The respondent who resides in Abuja, said this in a divorce petition he filed. “My mother-In-law has ruined my marriage. She...
Absence of Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, stalled the hearing of a suit filed by a group against the police over the suspension of DCP Abba Kyari. Although counsel to the applicant, the Incorporated Trustees of Northern Peace Foundation, Hamza N’Dantani, was in...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar Following the resumption of the murder charge preferred against a former Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Joseph Mbu by the Department of Public Prosecution in Cross River State, the accused has been involved in legal tango with the state over issues of jurisdiction and service....
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The lingering crises facing the Ohanaze Ndigbo in Cross River State has taken a new dimension as a High Court sitting in Calabar has adjourned hearing of the matter between parties in the tussle for leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo in the State. The matter came...
An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ms Adewunmi Omotosho on Monday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how alleged Access Bank hacker, Chris Ihebuzo was apprehended by the anti-graft agency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ihebuzo in a video that went viral...
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN) have been dragged before a Federal High Court in Abuja over an alleged unlawful award of 190 km rail line construction to a Chinese firm without due process of law. They were...
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano, on Thursday, ordered the Kano State Government to recall Prosecution Witness (PW1) for re-cross examination in an alleged blasphemy case against Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru-Kabara. NAN reports that Nasiru-Kabara is charged with four counts bordering on blasphemous comments against Prophet Muhammad committed the...
Arraignment of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Golden Tulip Hotel, Amaechi Ndili, was on Wednesday stalled at an Ikeja Special Offences Court. Also, the court has ordered that the case file should be returned to the Office of the Chief Judge of Lagos State for reassignment. Justice Sherifat...