PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has called for urgent reform of the judiciary in view of the delay tactics employed by judicial officers, lawyers and judges, to stall corruption trials and hinder the recovery of proceeds of crime in high profile corruption […]
Year: 2015
The police on Thursday arraigned a 41-year-old man, Ahmadu Samboke, in a Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court, Aso Pada, for allegedly cheating a friend. Samboke of Ruga Maishai Mararaba, is standing trial on a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, breach of […]
… Athlete to be re-sentenced Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after a South African appeals court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict. He killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 after shooting her four times […]
Three young men identified as Harrison Chukwuemeka (19), Stanley Sunday (19) and Otega Ogwa (25) have been arraigned at an Egor Magistrate Court for allegedly stealing handsets and laptop valued at N81,000. The items belonged to one Lucky Amiogbere. Police […]
Indications emerged, yesterday, that more heads may roll over the disappearance of $2 billion meant for the procurement of arms and ammunition for the country’s armed forces in the office of the National Security Adviser under the last administration. Vanguard […]
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday restrained the Federal Government from seizing Senator Buruji Kashamu’s properties over drug trafficking allegations. Justice Ibrahim Buba held that it would amount to abuse of powers for the respondents to infringe on […]
The Lagos State Government has filed a 111-count charge against the Registered Trustees of the Synagogue Church of All Nations and the engineers that allegedly constructed a building that collapsed and killed 116 people, mostly South Africans, on September 12 […]
The trustees of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, will today be arraigned before a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja over the collapse of a six-storey building in the church on September 12, 2014, which led to the death of […]
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has dismissed the 50-count charge of money laundering preferred against Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva and others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The […]
The Federal Government, yesterday, applied to amend the four-count charge it filed against the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja. The prosecuting counsel, Mr. Peter Danladi, who […]