Gov. Umaru Bago of Niger has inaugurated the High Court of Justice in Lapai, marking a significant milestone in the state’s quest for justice and equality. Bago, represented by his deputy, Mr Yakubu Garba, at the inauguration in Lapai on…
A High Court in Birnin Kebbi on Monday sentenced a woman, Farida Abubakar, to death by hanging for killing her former husband, Chief Magistrate Attahiru Muhammad-Ibrahim. It was gathered that Abubakar was arraigned before the court for murder on August…
A 16-year-old boy has revealed how he was lured into illegal organ harvesting instead of a job interview. Narrating his ordeal on Monday before an FCT High Court in Zuba, the teenager alleged that he was offered N1 million by…
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 charge…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, and the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, from intruding into the Centenary Economic City Free Zone along Airport Road, Abuja. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgement,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has approached the Court of Appeal to set aside a no-case ruling granted to a former governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu and former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the…
The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has confirmed the abduction of a High Court Judge, Justice Joy Uwana and her driver in Oron Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the judge was…
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, admitted Ali Bello and three others to a total bail of N2bn in their N3 billion fraud trial. Justice Obiora Egwuatu held that the charges against the defendants are bailable, and that bail…
An Oyo State High Court in Ibadan has fixed March 27 to hear a fundamental human rights suit filed by female Muslim students of University of Ibadan International School Ibadan (ISI) over alleged refusal of the school to allow them…
A housewife, Esther Nwatu told an FCT High Court that an official of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) demanded N500 000 from her to drop a case against her. NAPTIP accused Nwatu of beating her…
