The Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday resolved to proceed with the ongoing trial of 20 former leaders of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers in the absence […]
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun has assured that the Judiciary is in support of efforts to address terrorism and atrocious crimes in the country. Justice Kekere-Ekun said the Judiciary was committed to ensuring justice, accountability and national unity in […]
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja One Ugochukwu Joseph Nwaemere, the Executive Director of Pennhydro-Pell Oil and Gas Limited was on Tuesday arraigned for alleged conspiracy, forgery and obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of N750 million by the Economic and […]
By Sandra Umeh A 43-year-old trader identified as Abubakar Sulaiman has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to charges bordering on drug trafficking before Justice Ambrose Lewis Alagoa of the Federal High Court Lagos. Justice Alagoa […]
Two companies identified as FARM360 Limited and MCBHADMOS Trans- Atlantic on a five-count charge bordering on operating collective investment schemes without a licence either by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, or the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC by the […]
A United States of America court has sentenced five Nigerians to over 159 years of combined jail term for defrauding over 100 Americans, companies and government entities to the tune of $17m. This was contained in a statement obtained on […]
The Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC , has arraigned the director of Glossalalia Nigeria Ltd and Pelenged Nigeria Ltd, Precious Williams before Justice S. I . Mark of the Federal High Court, sitting […]
Two lawyers, Ademola Owolabi and Adebayo Akeju, were on Monday arraigned before the Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square for alleged forgery and wilful destruction of property. They were arraigned alongside a real estate developer, Alex Ochonogor, […]
A bricklayer, Azeez Shoderu, also known as Chisco, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, in Ikeja, for defiling his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter in a toilet. The convict was sentenced on […]
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, rejected an application by the Federal Government to issue a bench warrant against suspended Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan in an alleged defamation case against her. The government is prosecuting Akpoti-Uduaghan on behalf […]