By Taiye Agbaje The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday has declined moves by Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, to tender an uncertified document in support of his defence in the ongoing trial for alleged criminal defamation. Justice […]
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By Innocent Anaba A property dispute involving Ojo Local Government Area, Lagos State, has taken a fresh turn following allegations that officials of the council demolished a property despite a subsisting judgment of a Lagos State High Court declaring the […]
By Steve Oko UMUAHIA — Lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, has threatened legal action over an alleged public call for the extrajudicial killing of his client. […]
By Jeff Agbodo, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Executive Council (EXCO) has approved the transmission of bills to the Ebonyi State House of Assembly seeking to regulate house rents, fees charged by estate agents, and the sale of metal and electrical […]
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 […]
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 […]