Federal Capital Territory Chief Magistrate’s Court, Abuja, has dismissed a defamation suit filed against Nollywood actress, Elizabeth Anjorin (aka Lizzy Anjorin), for being incompetent and lacking merit. In dismissing the suit, CR/25/2025, Chief Magistrate Sunday Adukwu awarded N50,000 costs against the […]
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A UK-based Nigerian man, Adedapo Adegbola has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a woman he worked with after she ended their brief ‘controlling relationship’. Adegbola fatally stabbed 23-year-old Stephanie Irons in the neck at her home in […]
By Alex Enebeli Justice Anthony Onovo of the Enugu High Court, on Thursday, ordered the British Government to pay £20 million each to the families of the 21 coal miners killed in Enugu State in 1949 by the Colonial masters. […]
By Ugochi Joy Ugochukwu A 41-year-old driver, Arinze James, was on Thursday arraigned before a Life Camp Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abuja for allegedly swindling his client of N650,000. James, who resides in Karmo, Abuja, is facing a two-count charge of criminal breach […]
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has urged the Court of Appeal to quash the life imprisonment imposed on him by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice James Omotosho, last November 19, found him guilty of […]
A High Court in Kebbi State has sentenced Suleman Jidda, 30, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy. Jidda, a resident of Bayan Kara area of Birnin Kebbi, was arraigned on November 8, 2024, on a one-count charge […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— In November 2022, the then Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, declared Nigerians, especially the political class, as the most litigious people on earth. He said the barrage of cases flooding the various courtrooms […]
By Taiye Agbaje The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, rejected two sets of documents tendered by Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, in his ongoing trial over alleged defamatory remarks against President Bola Tinubu. Justice Mohammed Umar, in […]
By Godwin Oritse Abuja — Orlean Invest Africa Limited has filed an appeal against the Federal High Court in Abuja over its judgment ordering the seizure and forfeiture of a Bombardier BD-700 Global 6000 aircraft, describing the ruling as a […]
By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado-Ekiti — A former aide to Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, and erstwhile Chairman of the Ekiti State Microcredit and Enterprise Development Agency, Akogun Abayomi Olumide, popularly known as Lustay, has pleaded not guilty to a nine-count […]