By Haruna Aliyu, Birnin Kebbi The legal team representing former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Chika Malami, has raised concerns over his continued detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The team is […]
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA– The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, held that a former Minister of Power, Mr. Saleh Mamman, who is facing trial over his alleged complicity in money laundering, has a case to answer. Mamman, […]
A Lagos High Court in Igbosere has issued pre-emptive orders restraining Industrial and General Insurance Plc (IGI) and The Four H Nigeria Limited from transferring or tampering with a large expanse of land in the Lekki Peninsula. The order came after a […]
A former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, was arraigned yesterday at a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in Maitama for alleged N5 billion fraud. She was arraigned on a five-count charge in which she is accused, among […]
By Bashir Bello Kano — The National Forum of Kano Indigene Lawyers has raised alarm over the recruitment of a parallel Hisbah police force by the former Kano State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s foundation, describing it as a deliberate […]
A former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, has been arraigned before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in Maitama on a five-count charge, in which she is accused, among other things, of misappropriating about N5 billion […]
By Taiye Agbaje The Federal High Court (FHC) has warned that it will not hesitate to initiate appropriate civil and criminal proceedings against any individual, organisation, or platform found culpable of spreading false news that Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the […]
The Chief Justice of Plateau Justice David Mann has delivered judgment in the long-awaited case involving the killing of a university student, Rinji Bala, bringing a major legal chapter to a close. Mann, in a ruling delivered at the Plateau […]
By Egufe Yafugborhi, Uyo UYO — An Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo has sentenced two men, Chukwudi Onwuka and Eze Joshua Chinedu, to 10 years imprisonment each for defrauding businessman Mr. Tochi Obiano of ₦67,510,000 in a failed […]
Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday stopped Oluseye Opasanya (SAN) from appearing as counsel for General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL) in its suit against the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and three others. The judge held that […]