By Matthew Denis On Wednesday, Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) who had on January 8 this year voided the detention of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele…
By Dennis Udoma, Uyo Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno has congratulated Justice Ntong Festus Ntong on his elevation as Justice of the Court of Appeal. A statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Ekerete Udoh on Wednesday, Governor…
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, in a landmark judgment, has ordered Ms Sadia Umar-Farouk, former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development to account for payments of N729bn to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months.…
A Deputy Commissioner of Police in Borno, DCP Ahmad Bello, has called for stringent laws to stop withdrawal of rape and other sexual violence cases by relations of victims in court. He made the call in Maiduguri in his contribution…
A Kano State High Court on Tuesday , adjourned until July 4, hearing in an applications in the ongoing Kano Emirship Tussle case. The Attorney General of Kano State, Speaker Kano State House of Assembly and Kano State House of…
A journalist with Trust TV, Jamil Mabai, has narrated how he was detained by the Katsina State Hisbah Corps while at the corps’ office on official duty. The journalist explained that he had gone to the Hisbah headquarters…
A Sharia Court in Kano State on Wednesday ordered that a 25-year-old man, Ahmed Abdulkadir who pleaded guilty to stealing a cold room compressor unit worth N60,000 be remanded in a correction centre. The police charged Abdulkadir, who lives in Fagge…
A 26-year-old man, Adeniyi Toyosi, on Wednesday, appeared before an Ota Magistrates ‘Court in Ogun, for breaking into a business premises to steal two transformer armoured cables valued at N3.7 million. The Police charged the defendant, whose address was not…
Jigawa State Chief Judge, Justice Umar M. Sadiq has approved July 10 for the commencement of annual vacation for the State High Court. This was contained in a press statement signed by the Director, Publicity and Protocol Matters, Jigawa State…
An FCT Upper Area Court has ordered an aluminum fabricator, Yekini Tunde to pay N759, 000 to a businessman for a job he didt do or face sentence. The police charged Tunda who resides in Sabo-Iddo, Abuja with criminal breach…
