By AFP The US Supreme Court handed a major victory to abortion opponents late Wednesday, denying an emergency request to block a new law effectively banning most abortions in the southern state of Texas. The court, which had received the emergency […]
by Robert Egbe A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has frozen assets and funds to the tune of N19,178,253050 billion allegedly kept in 24 banks by a convicted former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB, Francis Atuche. Justice Lateefat […]
By Hope Abah Emmanuel Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Wednesday said he would drag the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, to court to prove allegations against his administration. Ortom, who gave the hint […]
By NAN Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has said that his government’s directive on no access to public places without being vaccinated still stands. The News Agency of Nigeria NAN reports that the state government had announced plans to make it […]
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA Six members of an Islamist militant group were sentenced to death on Tuesday by a court in Bangladesh for the brutal killing of two gay rights campaigners five years ago. Xulhaz Mannan, 35, and Mahbub Rabbi […]
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA A 22-year old man, Rasaq Adeosun, on Tuesday appeared before a Magistrates’ Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan, for alleged unlawful possession of a human bone. Mr Adeosun was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful […]
JUSTINA MBOHO The Nigerian Bar Association has condemned lawyers ‘shopping’ for judgment, accusing them of ridiculing and perverting the course of justice. “These developments in our courts are antithetical to the actualisation of the just society and independent judiciary that […]
by Bolanle Olabimtan A federal high court sitting in Lagos has frozen a Kogi state salary bailout account domiciled in Sterling Bank Plc, over a N20 billion loan obtained from the bank. Tijjani Ringim, presiding judge, granted the order following […]
By Daily Trust News The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear a fresh bail application filed by a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. The vacation judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, refused […]
By AFP The leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party appeared in the High Court on Tuesday to face terrorism charges in a case described by his party as a politically motivated move to crush dissent. Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe and […]