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…
The federal high court sitting in Lagos has granted the federal government an order of interim forfeiture of properties valued at N11,140,000,000 linked to Godwin Emefiele, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Chukwujekwu Aneke, the presiding…
By Jeleel Olawale, Ile-Ife An Osun Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ile-Ife, on Friday remanded a 25-year-old man, Adebisi Kola, for allegedly beating a woman to death. The police charged Kola with assault and homicide. Magistrate Kikelomo Adebayo did not take…
Two haulage drivers, Abdullahi Yahaya and Abduljabar Jubril, were on Thursday arraigned in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, over alleged diversion of N54 million worth of spaghetti. Yahaya, 48 and Jubril, 39, whose addresses were not mentioned, are…
Justice Suleiman Belgore of the FCT High Court sitting in Garki has granted bail to a former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika who is standing trial for alleged fraud to the tune of nineteen point four billion naira. Justice Belgore…
An Abuja Federal High Court has granted former Commander of Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP, Abba Kyari two weeks bail. The court said the two-week bail was to allow Kyari return home to conclude his mother’s burial rites. The court…
By Barth Ndubuwah, Port Harcourt A High Court sitting in Rivers State has ruled against the recent extension of Local Government Chairmen’s tenures, declaring exercise by the ousted 27 lawmakers of the State House of Assembly as invalid. The case,…
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the remand of a blogger, Chizorom Harrison Ofoegbu for alleged Cyber stalking, and defamation of the spiritual director, Zion Movement Outreach Ministry, Evangelist Ebuka Obi. The presiding judge, Justice Akintayo Aluko, ordered…
The Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Gwagwalada, Abuja, has sentenced a mother of five, Ramat Mba, to one year imprisonment for her involvement in an employment scam. Mba also forged the signature of the late Abba Kyari, the…
