The new Lagos Landlord and Tenancy bill has passed second reading. The bill seeks to reduce constant frictions between landlords and tenants and set standards for estate agents. When it is eventually signed into law, can it be enforced and […]
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By Joan Nwagwu The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has threatened to resume its suspended nationwide strike, over alleged breach of agreement brokered between it and Dangote Group by the Federal Government. NUPENG made the […]
A Tribute to Adesina Ogunlana (Serubawon): One Year On Today marks exactly one year since Adesina Ogunlana (popularly known as Serubawon) was lowered six feet beneath the earth surface, having passed away on the 6th of August, 2024. A […]
A Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, presided over by Justice Peace Otti, has sentenced a 34-year-old schoolteacher to 12 years imprisonment for defiling his 11-year-old male JSS 1 student. The defendant, Pascal Ofomata, was charged […]
By Sandra Umeh A 43-year-old trader identified as Abubakar Sulaiman has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to charges bordering on drug trafficking before Justice Ambrose Lewis Alagoa of the Federal High Court Lagos. Justice Alagoa […]
Two companies identified as FARM360 Limited and MCBHADMOS Trans- Atlantic on a five-count charge bordering on operating collective investment schemes without a licence either by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, or the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC by the […]
Two lawyers, Ademola Owolabi and Adebayo Akeju, were on Monday arraigned before the Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square for alleged forgery and wilful destruction of property. They were arraigned alongside a real estate developer, Alex Ochonogor, […]
A bricklayer, Azeez Shoderu, also known as Chisco, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, in Ikeja, for defiling his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter in a toilet. The convict was sentenced on […]
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, rejected an application by the Federal Government to issue a bench warrant against suspended Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan in an alleged defamation case against her. The government is prosecuting Akpoti-Uduaghan on behalf […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has been urged to restrain the Federal Government and its contractors from demolishing an 18.8-hectare estate in Okun-Ajah, Eti-Osa, to make way for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road project, pending the outcome of […]