Celebrity Nigerian cryptocurrency entrepreneur Linus Williams Ifejirika, popularly known as Blord, has been granted bail after spending weeks in Kuje prison over alleged impersonation of social media commentator Martins Vincent Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan. The development was disclosed by […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has faulted the authenticity of the Nigerian passport tendered in the London proceedings in the dispute over a property traced to a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the late General Jeremiah Useni. […]
A 63-year-old cleric, Chris Douglas, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja for raping a church member’s daughter. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Rahman Oshodi held that Douglas, who is the […]
THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION, CALABAR BRANCH (DOYEN BAR) ANNUAL LAW WEEK, 2026. A NOTE OF FELICITATION OKEY LEO OHAGBA I write to extend my warmest felicitation to the Enome Amatey led Executive, Law Week Planning Committee, and the entire leadership […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq. The court, in a ruling delivered by […]
The Nigeria Police Force has extradited a fugitive, Matthew Chukwuemeka Adebiyi, to the United Kingdom over alleged involvement in murder and drug trafficking. The extradition was carried out through the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja, following a formal request […]
A UK court has sentenced a Nigerian couple, Luciana and Femi Akanbi, to prison terms after they were found guilty of a £433,000 tax fraud linked to the misuse of employee data stolen from Transport for London (TfL). The couple […]
A labourer has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Okitipupa, Ondo State, over allegations of damaging crops valued at half a million naira. The 45-year-old defendant, Kunle Igbayemi, is facing a two-count charge involving conspiracy and the destruction […]
By Henry Ojelu, LAGOS A 20-year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Wednesday, narrated before a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja how a 53-year-old lecturer, Samuel Ojogbo, allegedly assaulted her in his office at the institution’s Akoka campus. […]
A 61-year-old UK-based Nigerian, Anthony Adewale Sobogun, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for multiple sexual offences against two children spanning 15 years, the London Metropolitan Police announced on Wednesday. Sobogun, a resident of Thistlewood Crescent, Croydon, was […]