Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has expressed his readiness to settle his ongoing trial out of court with the Federal Government. The IPOB Leader made this known yesterday at the resumed proceeding…
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a fresh bail application the detained Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, filed to be released on bail, pending the conclusion of his trial. Kyari is facing…
The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Nweke Izuchukwu Jude before Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Independence Layout, Enugu State for allegedly impersonating officers of the…
A Federal High Court on Friday, ordered the Kano State government to pay N10 million in damages to the 15th Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado-Bayero, for breaching his fundamental human rights. Ado-Bayero, through his counsel M L Yusufari SAN,…
By Adeyanju Esther Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has postponed the arraignment of former Kogi State governor Yahaya Adoza Bello to June 27, 2024. The decision, made on Thursday, June 13, 2024, followed a dispute…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has filed a motion to discontinue its lawsuit against Mobil Nigeria subsidiaries and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The motion is…
By Dave Okpogadie, Asaba A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba and presided over by Honourable Justice C. D Diai has convicted and sentenced one Inspector Ubi Ebri of the Nigeria Police Force to death on a murder charge.…
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, on Monday, remanded one Taiwo Adewale, 35, who is facing charges of murder and attempted murder. The Magistrate, Mrs Adebola Adeola, who did not take the plea of the defendant for want of jurisdiction,…
By Adeyanju Esther Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced Adeyinka Bilikis Gbadamosi to six months imprisonment for currency racketeering. Gbadamosi was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has sued the government of president Bola Tinubu “over the failure to publish spending details of the loans obtained by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu…
