Michael Barrow, operator of the illegal IPTV service “MB Streams”, has pleaded guilty to three Fraud Act offences for supplying access to Premier League matches and other premium content, and has been sentenced to three years and two months’ imprisonment […]
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The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has adjourned till July 1 for further hearing in the suit the Supreme Egbesu Assembly (SEA) filed against the Federal Government and the National Assembly over resource control and the creation […]
Five police officers linked to the death of Delta State musician and delivery rider Oghenemine Ogidi, popularly known as OG Millan, have been remanded in custody after appearing before a High Court in Asaba. The officers, namely ASP Usman Nuhu, […]
By Innocent Anaba LAGOS — THE Court of Appeal in Lagos has struck out an application by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, paving the way for the enforcement of a judgment ordering the reinstatement of a former employee, Mrs […]
Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa sitting at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, has ordered that a bench warrant be issued against a couple, Tunde Akobi and Rebecca Akobi, over alleged offences of obtaining by false pretence and N87. 4 million fraud. The […]
By Lucy Osuizigbo-Okechukwu A High Court in Oba, Idemili South of Anambra, has sentenced a commercial tricycle operator, Makuachukwu Ezike, to death by hanging for the murder of a passenger during a “one chance” robbery operation. Trial judge, Justice Lauretta […]
Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja has fixed June 3 for hearing in a suit filed by Nafiu-Bala Gombe, seeking to stop David Mark and others from parading themselves as leaders of the African Democratic […]
By Jethro Ibileke An aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the recently concluded Edo South senatorial primary election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has threatened a ₦2 billion suit against an aide of Governor Monday Okpebholo, Mr. Collins Osaghae, over […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri Before assuming office as Nigeria’s 16th President on May 29, 2023, Bola Tinubu had identified judicial reform as a cornerstone of economic growth and investment in his manifesto, pledging that such progress would be underpinned by the […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has reserved judgment to a date to be communicated to parties in the ongoing trial of five men being prosecuted by the Department of State Services (DSS) for their alleged involvement in the June […]