The Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned the arraignment of Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, charged for alleged N7.1 billion fraud until June 7. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was to arraign Kalu, following a Supreme Court order…
A drunk bus driver, Muyideen Bello,23, on Tuesday appeared in an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun, for alleged reckless driving and killing an 18-year-old pedestrian. The police charged Bello, whose address was not provided, with two counts of manslaughter and…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arraigned a Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Commercial Director, Muhammed Kuchazi, before Justice Folashade Giwa-Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on eight counts bordering on money laundering. Kuchazi was arraigned…
A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Monday sentenced two vagrants to three months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing 70 pairs of flip-flops. Magistrate Farouk Ibrahim, setenced Surajo Adamu,23, and Ibrahim Sani,20, after they pleaded guilty. Ibrahim did not…
A 60-year-old man, Okechukwu Akunna, on Monday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly threatening the life of his wife. The police charged Akunna for breach of peace and threat to life, punishable under sections 168 and 56…
A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Monday, dissolved a 12-year-old marriage between a farmer, Wasiu Oladosu and wife, Amdalat on grounds that she was hot-tempered. In his testimony, Oladosu told, the court Amdalat constantly fought with her mate. Delivering…
An auto-dealer apprentice, Gbenga Adewale, was, on Friday, arraigned before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly converting N1.8 million made from the sale of his employer’s car to personal use. Adewale, 38, of no fixed address, is standing trial…
A civil servant, Joy Okafor on Friday told a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, that a photographer, Ayodeji Festus, who paraded himself as a Nigeria Customs Service officer, swindled her of N1.9 million. Okafor made the allegation while testifying…
A school teacher, Rebecca Meina, on Friday prayed a Customary Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja, to dissolve her marriage, on grounds that her husband, Matthew attempted to poison her. Meina, who resides in Karu, FCT, in divorce petition said:”my husband and…
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the sack of a lawmaker representing Ibaji Constituency of Kogi, Atule Egbunu, on the ground of unlawful nomination by his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment,…
