A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano, on Wednesday, granted N50,000 bail each to Ali Sani, 20, and Shamsu Isah, 30, who both are facing charges of gross indecency. The defendants, who live at Jakara Quarters, Kano, are standing trial…
A 42-year-old businessman, Mayor Chisom, on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly obtaining N750,000 under false pretenses of doing business with it from one Mr Patrick Okonkwo and disappeared after collecting it. The defendant fraudulently…
A 19-year-old motorcycle rider,”Okada”, Musa Ahammadu, on Wednesday appeared in a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly assaulting police officers on duty. The police charged Ahammadu with three counts of conspiracy, assault and malicious damage. The prosecution counsel, Insp…
The Police on Wednesday arraigned three men, who allegedly stole a truck loaded with flat iron sheet worth N40 million, in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The police charged Isah Oseni, 35, Fatai Fasasi, 23, and Alao Ambali, 67, with…
A nurse, Mrs Nwakanma Okafor, on Tuesday sought dissolution of her 12-year-old marriage to husband,John, in a Customary Court sitting at Ile-Tuntun in Ibadan on grounds that he was poor and lazy. Okafor, a mother of three also alleged that…
A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday remanded four security guards in correctional facility for alleged murder. The defendants are Sunday Onilede, 28; Fatai Alao, 40; Abdullahi Ibrahim, 29 and Hassan Rasak, 35. They are facing a two–count…
A 26-year-old businessman, Adedamola Adetoye, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for alleged N500,000 fraud. Adetoye, who resides at the Badagry area of Lagos State, is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretenses and stealing.…
An 80 year-old retired lecturer, Prof. Muritala Haroon, on Thursday told a Customary Court sitting in Mapo, that his wife, Afsat, still denies him sex. At the resumed hearing in the suit, Haroon said:”my wife did not abide by the…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested a former Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, for allegedly misappropriating N900 million. Mrs Azuka Ogugua, ICPC spokesperson,…
A 36-year-old man, Gbenga Olanrewaju, on Wednesday appeared before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stealing a mobile phone and belonging to an unlawful secret cult. The defendant, who resides in Ijesha area of Lagos, is being…
