The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has faulted the authenticity of the Nigerian passport tendered in the London proceedings in the dispute over a property traced to a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the late General Jeremiah Useni. […]
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A 63-year-old cleric, Chris Douglas, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja for raping a church member’s daughter. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Rahman Oshodi held that Douglas, who is the […]
A UK court has sentenced a Nigerian couple, Luciana and Femi Akanbi, to prison terms after they were found guilty of a £433,000 tax fraud linked to the misuse of employee data stolen from Transport for London (TfL). The couple […]
A labourer has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Okitipupa, Ondo State, over allegations of damaging crops valued at half a million naira. The 45-year-old defendant, Kunle Igbayemi, is facing a two-count charge involving conspiracy and the destruction […]
By Henry Ojelu, LAGOS A 20-year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Wednesday, narrated before a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja how a 53-year-old lecturer, Samuel Ojogbo, allegedly assaulted her in his office at the institution’s Akoka campus. […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed May 26 for the Department of State Services (DSS) to open its case in the alleged terrorism charge it filed against former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), and […]
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has commended the judiciary for quashing the unlawful rustication of University of Ibadan (UI) student-activists Ayodele Aduwo and Mide Gbadegesin, and for addressing the ongoing victimisation of Nice Linus, who held placards reading […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday re-arraigned a former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and his son, Abdulaziz, before the Federal High Court in Abuja on an amended charge bordering on alleged terrorism and unlawful […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed April 22 to hear an appeal concerning the leadership crisis currently rocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC). A five-member panel of the apex court, headed by Justice Mohammed Garba, adjourned […]
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in Apo declined a request for it to, among others, stop the renewal and restructure of the nation’s pipeline surveillance contract awarded to Tantita Security Services Nigeria Ltd, Pipeline Infrastructure […]