A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in Maitama has granted the request by the prosecution to shift further hearing in the alleged criminal defamation charge brought against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan by the office of the Attorney General of […]
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By Temitope Abe A French court on Monday sentenced a mayor to four years in jail for blackmailing a political rival with a secretly filmed sex tape involving a male sex worker. Gael Perdriau, who has been mayor of the […]
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami SAN, has described the petition filed against him over recovery of $310 million Abacha loot as baseless and illogical. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]
Medical and Dental Practitioners Investigation Panel (MDPIP) has filed a notice of appeal at Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, challenging an FCT High Court judgment, which set aside the interim suspension of Lagos-based doctor, Ferdinand Ejike Orji. The panel had referred […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to immediately release 27 houses it wrongly seized as proceeds of crime. The court, in a judgement that was delivered […]
The Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has sentenced a 400-level University of Port Harcourt student, Damian Okoligwe, to death by hanging for the murder of his girlfriend, Justina Otuene. Okoligwe, a Petrochemical Engineering student, killed Otuene, a 300-level […]
ABUJA – The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, on Friday, struck out an appeal the convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, filed to challenge alleged violation of his fundamental rights by the Federal […]
Trial of former bank manager, Fidelis Egueke, resumes March 3 at Federal High Court, Lagos. Businessman, Jude Ndudi, told the court at the last hearing how Egueke allegedly threatened him and his sister when he demanded repayment of over N480 […]
By Edith Nwapi Justice Hamza Muazu of the FCT High Court, Maitama, on Thursday stopped the prosecution from calling three subpoenaed witnesses to testify in the ongoing trial of Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele, a former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is […]
The Federal High Court in Lagos in a landmark judgment has ruled that the Federal Government, the country’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) “have the legal obligations to provide free, compulsory and universal basic education for every […]