By Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR —A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar has convicted and sentenced Okon Effiong, a 33-year-old man to death for aggravated assault, rape and armed robbery. The convict was sentenced by Justice Blessing Egwu, on […]
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An Oyo State High Court, Ring Road, Ibadan has summoned the medical doctor in Agodi Custodian centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service to appear before it today over a matter that bothers on the health status of a former Chairman […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday dragged a businessman, Sarumi Babafemi, before an Ikeja Special Offences Court over alleged N206 million fraud. Babafemi, said to be an associate of social media celebrity Ismail Mustapha (Mompha), was charged […]
Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, on Monday arrested a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, in Abuja. Malami was reportedly picked up in front of the Kuje Correctional Centre shortly after […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has reserved ruling in a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Ambrose Akhigbe against the Nigerian Army and nine others. The plaintiff is a Deputy Director at Command Secondary School, Ipaja, Lagos. The case, marked […]
By Kazeem Ugbodaga In a significant development in the high-profile $6 billion Mambila Power Project fraud trial, a prosecution witness testified on Monday that there is no official record confirming the involvement of key Chinese financial agencies in the controversial […]
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Jabi, Abuja, has adjourned further hearing in the N550million defamation suit filed by Senator Chris Anyanwu against a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, till March 17. Hearing in the case […]
By Henry Ojelu LAGOS—The Court of Appeal has deployed 40 Justices to Lagos in a special sitting aimed at clearing a backlog of appeals, with 360 cases listed for hearing before 16 panels constituted for the exercise. President of the […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed January 22 for the commencement of trial in the cyber-bullying case brought against the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 Omoyele Sowore by the Department of State […]
Parallex Bank Limited has asked the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit filed against it by logistics firm FHT Mega Express Limited, describing the action as an abuse of court process, incompetent, and lacking […]