The 11th prosecution witness (PW11), Bashirudden Muhammed Maishanu, yesterday told the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja how $6.23 million was allegedly withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) using forged documents during Godwin Emefiele’s tenure. Testifying before […]
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By John Alechenu Abuja: –Legal practitioners numbering over 500 acting under the aegis of Concerned Lawyers for Probity and Justice, stormed the Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja, to join the protest by indigenous contractors demanding the payment of an estimated […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday arraigned the former National Coordinator of Multi-Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project, MCRP, North East Development Commission, NEDC, Alhaji Danjuma Mohammed and two others; Prince Achem and Aminu Alhaji (at large) before Justice […]
…As state gov’t vows more crackdown The Police in Enugu have arraigned a 42-year old man, Edwin Eze, before a magistrate’s court for alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl at Mburubu, Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State. This […]
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) workers have continued their strike despite a court order asking them to suspend the action and return to work. The workers, under the Joint Union Action Committee (JUAC), began an indefinite strike on January 19 over […]
President Bola Tinubu has asked the House of Representatives to amend the Court of Appeal Act to establish an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Centre at the appellate court for the adjudication of appellate matters. The President is also seeking amendments […]
The absence of lawyers for the prosecution and the defence in the trial of Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, the former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Wednesday, stalled the hearing at the Federal High Court in Abuja. […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned the Chief Executive Officer of Bondpay, Prince Chibuike Echem, alongside a former National Coordinator of the Multi-Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC), Danjuma Mohammed, over an […]
The planned hearing of a suit the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) filed for the forfeiture of 57 properties linked to a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, was stalled yesterday before a Federal High Court in […]
By Olamide Olakanse Justice Rahman Oshodi of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a teacher, David Oddion a Social Studies teacher at a private school, to life imprisonment for the sexual assault of an eight-year-old student […]