An Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado-Ekiti, on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old woman, Yemisi Najimu, to 10 years imprisonment with an option of N70,000 fine for attempted murder. Delivering judgment, Justice Lekan Ogunmoye said ‘’what the convict did was…
Justice Abiodun Adesodun of Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced Afolabi Taiwo (43) to death by hanging. In his pronouncement, Justice Adesodun said the prosecution led credible, cogent and compelling evidence to establish all the three…
Two farmers, Aruwa Kwala, 50, and Shenyi Salihu, 50, were on Tuesday docked in a Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT for allegedly accusing their neighbour of being a witch and killing a three-year-old girl. The police charged the defendants who…
The ongoing trial of Abubakar Ali Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, over a 21-count charge bordering on forgery and subsidy fraud to the tune of N761,628,993.84 before Justice S.S. Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos could not…
By Uthman Salami The Federal high Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Federal Government to pay $1,638 billion to the Delta State and another over 13 per cent oil revenue derivative arrears due to the State Earlier in June, the Court…
By Seun Ibiyemi Following the seizure of cocaine at the seaport, a Federal High Court in Lagos has granted the application by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for the interim attachment of a vessel MV Chayaneenaree used to…
The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured 16 internet fraud convictions. The fraudsters were convicted in separate judgments on Tuesday October 26, 2021 and Wednesday October 27, 2021 by Justices F.O G Ogunbanjo and…
By Olaleye Aanuoluwapo, Abuja A Federal High Court in Abuja has vacated with immediate effect an interim ruling under which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) froze the bank accounts of RiseVest Technologies in two banks. The Central Bank blocked…
A medical doctor, Dr Aniekan Makanjuola, on Thursday revealed before an Ikeja Special Offences Court how a minor (name withheld) was allegedly defiled by Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, alias “Baba Ijesha.” Makanjuola made the revelation while being led in evidence…
By Mike Adebayo, Ado-Ekiti Justice Abiodun Adesodun of Ado Ekiti High Court has sentenced three men to death by hanging for armed robbery and murder. The convicts are Oluwole Edward 49, Kolawole Ojo, 39 and Kolawole Tope 20. Adesodun, in…
