By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA– The trial of the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, continued before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday, with a witness detailing how a consultant pocketed over N1.1 billion […]
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PORT HARCOURT — A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has barred the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi, from receiving or acting on any correspondence from the Rivers State House of Assembly relating to […]
By Ebere Agozie The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to resuscitate the trial of former governor of Jigawa state, Sule Lamido and his two sons, Mustapha and Aminu Lamido for the 1.35 billion […]
Two courts in Abuja yesterday struck out the two criminal charges filed by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation (OAGF) against Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Justice Chizoba Orji of the High Court of the Federal Capital […]
By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) has clarified that there was no fresh imposition of Value-Added Tax (VAT) on banking services. In a statement yesterday, the NRS said VAT has always applied to banking services and […]
By Elizabeth Adegbesan The number of unsentenced inmates in Nigeria correctional centers rose by 12.9 percent to 53,790 in over nine years (2017-Q2’25 ( second quarter of 2025). The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, disclosed this in its Nigeria Correctional […]
By James Ogunnaike Abeokuta—An Ogun State High Court, sitting in Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, has denied bail to controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, following his arraignment on multiple criminal charges. Portable was arraigned on a nine-count […]
The management of Nestoil Limited and Neconde Energy Limited yesterday rejected what they described as false and misleading narratives circulating in sections of the print and online media over ongoing legal disputes with a consortium of lenders, insisting that no […]
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Dr. Michael Adariku has narrated how money were disbursed from the account of the Office of National Security Adviser, ONSA under the leadership of Colonel Sambo Dasuki […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— Two survivors of the terrorists’ attack that killed 40 members of St. Francis’ Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, in 2022, yesterday, testified before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. In their separate testimonies, the […]