Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan, on Wednesday, dissolved the 14-year old marriage between one John Akinwumi, a commercial driver, and his estranged wife, Toyin. Akinwumi had pleaded with the court to put an end to his 14-year-old marriage…
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, on Tuesday, ordered a fraudster, Ismail Adeniyi, 58, to pay N1.6 million as restitution to the complainant. The Chief Magistrate, Mr E.A. Idowu, in his judgment, found Adeniyi guilty of fraud, as charged.…
Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, March 11, 2024 adjourned the alleged N4.8 billion fraud brought against a businessman, Chief Cletus Ibeto, till April 15, 2024. The case, which was initially…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, granted leave to Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), to appeal the decision of the court dismissing his no-case submission in the charge against him.…
The Kwara State Revenue Court 1, sitting in Ilorin, has fixed April 15, 2024, for ruling in a direct criminal complaint case filed against National Pilot newspaper by the Special Assistant to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq on New Media, Olayinka…
Justice Peter Kekemeke of an FCT High Court on Tuesday sentenced a fake investigator, Mohammed Momoh, to seven years imprisonment for duping Mrs Mario Al-Makura, wife of the former governor of Nasarawa State. Kekemeke sentenced Momoh based on the…
By Saka Laaro, Ilorin Mandate International Publications Nigeria Limited, publishers of National Pilot Newspapers Monday, asked a revenue court sitting in Ilorin to dismiss the case of direct criminal complaint levelled against it and one of its reporters for lack…
Two farmers, Hassan Augustine, 55, and Felix Balogun, 47, have been sentenced to two weeks of community service by an Akure Magistrates’ Court. The sentence was given due to their unlawful possession of camouflage uniforms belonging to the Nigerian army.…
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, remanded a 45-year-old fake doctor, Adegoke Olaoluwa, for allegedly causing the death of his patient. The Magistrate, Mrs A.T. Oyediji, who did not take the defendant’s plea, ordered that he be remanded in Agodi…
An EFCC witness, Bamaiyi Mairiga on Thursday told an FCT high court, Maitama that the signatures of former President Muhammadu Buhari and the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, were forged. Mairiga, a forensic…
