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Nigeria’s Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos and presided over by Justice Peter Odo Lifu, on Tuesday, ordered a lawyer, Mr. Kehinde Awowole to produce his client, a popular businesswoman and socialite, Princess Toyin Kolade, who was alleged to be involved in a $32 million USD fraud, in court on December 3. Princess Toyin […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered a former Minister Of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, to pay a fine of N200,000 for being absent at his re-arraignment or stand the risk of having his bail revoked. Presiding judge, Justice Daniel Osaigor gave the order on Wednesday, saying that having gone through the court’s […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned a former head of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, for certificate forgery. The two charges filed at the Jos Judicial Division of the High Court of Plateau State, stated the former SPIP head presented […]
Continue ReadingA High Court sitting in Gudu Judicial Division, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria, has awarded N50 million damages against the Nigerian police for arresting and detaining an activist of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mrs. Ngozi Umeadi. Nnamdi Kanu’s defence lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who hailed the judgement on Thursday, said the court also ordered […]
Continue ReadingOyo State High Court presided over by Justice Ladiran Akintola has declared the raid conducted by the Department of State Service (DSS) on the residence of Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, in Ibadan as illegal. The court also ordered the DSS which is also called SSS, to pay N20 billion […]
Continue ReadingNigerian pastor identified as Fred Adeola Omosebi has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice A.O Otaluka of the Federal High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja on an 11-count charge bordering on conspiracy, abuse of office and diversion of funds to the tune of N15,619,000. Omosebi who is a Pastor of […]
Continue ReadingA Customary Court sitting at Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State has dissolved a 7-year-old marriage between Ademola Adeparusi and his wife, Yinka Adeparusi. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), both parties had earlier given their evidence on March 8, 2021 and the matter was later adjourned for judgment. Their marriage was dissolved on grounds of […]
Continue ReadingYoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) at his house in the Soka area of Ibadan on July 1. Chief Yomi Aliyu SAN, counsel to the Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingChairman of Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Professor John Ibu, who was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission () for alleged N24.6 million fraud, is reported to have been identified as the father of Pastor Becky Enenche, wife of Pastor Paul Enenche, founder of Dunamis International Gospel Centre. Becky Eneche was reported to […]
Continue ReadingUS comedian Bill Cosby was freed from prison on Wednesday, in a blow to the #MeToo movement, after a US court overturned his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago. The 83-year-old left SCI Phoenix, a state jail 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled […]
Continue ReadingThe Chief Magistrate Court 2, Iyaganku, Ibadan, in the Oyo State capital, Nigeria, has ordered the release of three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress, three months after their detention by the Oyo State Police Command. The OPC members – Awodele Adedigba, Dauda Kazeem and Hassan Ramon – had been detained mid-March 2021 after they […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, restrained the Ondo State government from investigating the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Akeredolu over a viral video made by a citizen of the state, Olupelumi Fagboyegun. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the order while delivering a judgement in the suit brought by the CJ against Governor Oluwarotimi […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has been arraigned at the Magistrate Court 1, Yaba, Lagos. He was arraigned today Wednesday, June 16, around 9.00am. However, the Magistrate court sitting in Yaba, Lagos state, has denied the embattled actor, bail. The movie star was arrested in April this year for allegedly defiling […]
Continue ReadingA woman has been ordered by the court to compensate her former husband with K4,000 following her confession that he was not the biological father of the child she gave birth to while they were still married. Melody Kafula revealed in the Kabushi Local Court, Zambia that she was three months pregnant for another man […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and activist, Femi Falana’s son, Folarin Falana aka Falz has reacted to the court order secured by the Central Bank of Nigeria to freeze the accounts of 18 #EndSARS promoters. On November 5, Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja granted the request of the CBN to freeze the accounts […]
Continue ReadingOne lawyer, Tope Akinyode, has dragged Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Senate and two others to court over the proposed ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill 2019.” In the suit he filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos, Akinyode is seeking an order of perpetual injunction prohibiting the respondents from enacting the […]
Continue Reading27-year-old housewife, Stella, who allegedly stole breast pads and other beauty from a supermarket, on Wednesday appeared in an Upper Area Court in Mpape, Abuja. Stella, who resides in Efab Estate, Lokogoma Abuja, is charged with two counts of criminal trespass and stealing. The Prosecution Counsel, Mr Stanley Nwaforaku, told the court that the case […]
Continue ReadingThe Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos to stop the Senate President, Bukola Saraki from paying N14.2 million monthly allowances to former Plateau State governor, Senator Joshua Dariye while he serves out a 10-year prison sentence for corruption because such payment violates Nigerian law […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has described as empty boast the threat by the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to sue him over his recent statement that Oshiomhole has no moral basis to be in politics. Saraki however expressed his readiness to meet Oshiomhole in court if the […]
Continue ReadingEx-Nigerian National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), on Tuesday said he would no longer appear in court for his trial on alleged illegal possession of firearms and money laundering until the Federal Government obeys valid court orders admitting him to bail. Apart from the charge of illegal possession of firearms, he is also […]
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