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 […]
A 61-year-old commercial sex worker, Theresa Odega, and four others, have been arraigned before an Igbosere magistrate’s court over alleged prostitution. They were arraigned on Wednesday. The other defendants are Sandra Akomake, 58; Roseline Jebba, 43; Chika Okoro, 40 and […]
The 32-member Oyo State House of Assembly has suspended legislative duties until the state government pays the accumulated allowances owed the lawmakers. According to information gathered, the government is owing the lawmakers furniture, car allowances and two months running cost […]
A Federal High Court yesterday in Abuja dismissed an application of the Federal Government seeking to compel the presence of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Mohammed Dasuki in court throughout the duration of his trial. Meanwhile, the […]
About 70 per cent of prison inmates are awaiting trial, the Prison Fellowship Nigeria (PFN) Secretary-General Jacob Tsado, has said. Speaking with reporters during the group’s Family Week/Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Redemption Camp of the Redeemed Christian Church […]
A Nigerian doctor, Anthony Nwafor, has been accused of corruption and illegal immigration by the Department of Home Affairs in South Africa. Nwafor, a family physician was arrested two weeks ago with 14 of his family’s passports confiscated by an official […]