The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), has rapped the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), for berating the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over Tuesday’s judgement awarding N100 million to two operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) defamed by the NGO....
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*Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday granted the request for accelerated hearing in the trial of six persons accused of plotting to overthrow the government of President Bola Tinubu. The court scheduled April 29, April 30, May 4, and May 5 for the commencement...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has secured another significant win in its ongoing offensive against drug cartels as the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, granted an interim forfeiture order for 17 containers laden with illicit opioids worth over N33.6 billion in street value. The containers, which were...
The bid for bail by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, suffered a setback on Tuesday as a Kaduna State High Court adjourned ruling on his application, ordering that he remain in the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) until early June. The...
Kaduna State High Court on Monday adjourned till Tuesday, April 14, for ruling on the bail application of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, following an amendment of charges by the prosecution. At the resumed proceedings, the amended charges were read and the defendant’s plea was taken. The...
INTRODUCTIONI listened to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN’s interview on Arise TV this morning, wherein he submitted that by the refusal of INEC not to attend and observe the ADC scheduled congresses and convention, the party and it’s potential candidates in the 2027 general election risk disqualification,...
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has secured the release of a legal practitioner, Mrs. Lovinah Ugbana Benjamin, who was remanded following proceedings before the High Court of Rivers State in Port Harcourt. The intervention followed a directive by the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, who...
Barely four months after their arrest by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for importing 20 kilograms of cocaine from Santos Brazil into Nigeria through the Apapa seaport in Lagos, 10 Filipino sailors and their merchant vessel marked MV Nord Bosporus have been convicted and fined...
A Federal High Court in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, has restrained Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa from seeking another term in office. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Toyin Bolaji Adegoke ruled that the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) does not allow an elected President, Vice President, Governor, or...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, arraigned one Ufoma Joseph Immanuel for an alleged $1.5m fraud before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. Immanuel, alongside his company, Intermediate Investment Holdings Ltd., was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering...
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, March 9, 2026, adjourned indefinitely (sine die) the trial of Fred Ajudua over an alleged $1,043,000 fraud. Ajudua is standing trial for allegedly defrauding a Palestinian , Zad Abu Zalaf, of the sum of $1,043,000...
Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday, March 5, 2026, dismissed the no-case submission filed by Dr. John Abebe and his company, Inducon Nig. Ltd, who are standing trial over an alleged N120m fraud. The defendants were arraigned on September 19, 2022 on a...
Justice O.A. Fadipe of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja Lagos has convicted and sentenced one Adebisi Ridwan Ayodeji to 18 months imprisonment for defrauding Sterling Bank of the sum of N30,000,000( Thirty Million Naira). The convict was initially arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,...
Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, February 24, 2026, arraigned a former Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Fidet Okhiria Edetanle, before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, over alleged $385,000...
Federal High Court of Nigeria in Lagos has ruled that the Nigeria Police Force acted unlawfully by declaring human rights activist and Sahara Reporters publisher Omoyele Sowore wanted in 2025. Delivering judgment on Friday, Justice Musa Kakaaki said the action violated the Constitution and awarded ₦30 million in damages...
Trial of the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele before Justice Maryanne Anineh of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, FCT, High Court, Maitama, Abuja, continued on Tuesday, February 10, 2026 with the refusal of the court to grant a motion of adjournment of proceedings...
The newly elected Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State has reaffirmed its total and unflinching loyalty to the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) under the leadership of Barrister Kabiru Turaki. In a statement issued on Friday, the Lagos PDP Exco-elect declared its full alignment...
Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed January 22, 2026, to begin the trial of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, for the alleged criminal defamation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Department of State Services (DSS) had...