A High Court in Calabar, Cross River State, has sentenced a 51-year-old pastor, Ubong Bassey Etim, to death by hanging for murdering his 16-year-old daughter, Deborah Bassey, after falsely accusing her of being a witch. Justice Blessing Egwu of High […]
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A father of 11, Lawal Hamisu, on Tuesday prayed the Shari’a court II sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, to compel his daughter, Fatima Lawal, to get a suitor and marry. The complainant, who spoke through his counsel, H.B. Debo, said […]
The Police on Tuesday arraigned a 27-year-old man, Douglas Josiah, before a Life Camp Magistrate’s Court, Abuja, for allegedly stealing goods worth N10.8 million. The police charged Josiah of Akarak Village with criminal conspiracy, mischief and theft. However, the defendant pleaded not […]
By Taiye Agbaje The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday admitted Bello Bodejo, the National President of Miyetti Allah Kauta Kore, to N2 billion bail with two sureties in the like sum. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Bodejo’s bail […]
By Yinka Kolawole The Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics (AERE) has warned that the decline in manufacturing tax revenue in the first quarter of 2026 reflects weakening industrial activity, urging the Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) […]
Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, has emerged as the 33rd President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), becoming one of the leading voices in Nigeria’s legal profession. Called to the Nigerian Bar in 2002, Badejo-Okusanya obtained her law […]
By Ayorinde Oluokun Mr. Joel Adoga, a defendant standing trial for fraud alongside former governor Nasir El-Rufai before the Federal High Court, Kaduna has lost a fundamental rights enforcement suit he instituted against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related […]
The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo, Abuja, has granted two separate applications in a long-running commercial dispute between Martreach Logistics Limited and Shell Production Development Company Limited, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the Attorney-General of the Federation, and […]
By Ayorinde Oluokun Tunde Ayeni, a prominent businessman and former Chairman, Board of Directors of the defunct Skye Bank Plc, (now Polaris Bank Limited) was re-arraigned before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Apo on charges […]
A 37-year-old microfinance bank employee, Henry Nwoko, on Friday appeared before an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly forging a letter of non-indebtedness. Nwoko, whose address was not provided, is standing trial on a two-count charge of forgery and […]