By AFP Kenya’s Court of Appeal on Friday rejected a government bid to make fundamental changes to the constitution, in a new blow to President Uhuru Kenyatta who had initiated the controversial proposals. A seven-judge panel confirmed an earlier High Court […]
By AFP A man released early from a prison sentence for terror offences who was shot dead by police after going on a stabbing spree was lawfully killed, an inquest jury said Friday. But the jury at the Royal Courts of […]
By AFP The court of justice of the West Africa bloc ECOWAS has demanded that Mali justify the alleged detention of ex-leaders Moctar Ouane and Bah Ndaw, a lawyer for the two men said Friday. Ouane and Ndaw were respectively appointed […]
AUTHOR:Jesupemi Are The federal government says Twitter has agreed to seven out of the 10 demands it made to lift the suspension on the social media platform in Nigeria. Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, said this in Washington […]
by Agency Reporter A Customary Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Friday sentenced a man, Michael Kadima to three years imprisonment for cheating a businessman. The Judge, George Gwani, sentenced Kadima after he pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust and […]
By Joseph Onyekwere A Lagos landlord, Alhaji Ahmed Olorunnimbe, has slammed a N5million suit against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and three others for allegedly breaching his fundamental rights. The businessman is also asking the court to make an order of perpetual […]
by Gbenga Omokhunu The Police Service Commission (PSC) has set up an in-house panel to study documents related to the suspended former Head of Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari indicted by a report of the […]
By Orjime Moses The All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has obtained a court injunction from a Federal High Court in Kano, stopping Mr Mudi Farouk Rabiu from further parading himself as the president of the umbrella farmers’ body and holding […]
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA The National Industrial Court, Abuja, on Thursday, declined an application by a Non-Governmental Organisation ( NGO), seeking an order to make striking medical doctors return to work. The court rather directed the plaintiffs to place them […]
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA Many demonstrators flooded Afghan cities on Thursday as popular opposition to the Taliban spread across the Middle East nation facing forceful takeover of power by the extremist group. A witness said several people were killed when […]