A bricklayer, Azeez Shoderu, also known as Chisco, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, in Ikeja, for defiling his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter in a toilet. The convict was sentenced on […]
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, rejected an application by the Federal Government to issue a bench warrant against suspended Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan in an alleged defamation case against her. The government is prosecuting Akpoti-Uduaghan on behalf […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has been urged to restrain the Federal Government and its contractors from demolishing an 18.8-hectare estate in Okun-Ajah, Eti-Osa, to make way for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road project, pending the outcome of […]
An Izzi High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, has sentenced a 30-year-old man to death by hanging for killing an 18-year-old SS2 student after the deceased revealed their sexual relationship, which resulted in his experiencing anal problems. The […]
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has condemned in strongest terms the senseless massacre of over 200 persons in Yelewata and Daudu communities in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, decrying the cold indifference of federal and state authorities […]
The Olokunjuwon and Umelu families, owners of the land in Alagbaka Extension of Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Sunday, insisted that landlords and owners of properties in the community allegedly trespassed on their land, despite Supreme Court judgment. To […]
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered a legal practitioner, Nnamdi Awa Kalu, to appear in court on July 9, 2025, to explain the whereabouts of his client, Richard Ironbar Edemadem, who has reportedly jumped bail and failed to […]
The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has overturned the final forfeiture order issued on the assets of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to the Federal Government. In a split decision of two-to-one, delivered on […]
On behalf of the West African Bar Association (WABA), I warmly congratulate our Mr. Femi Falana SAN (Founding President, WABA), on the well-deserved conferment of the National Honor of the Commander of the Order of Niger (CON) upon him by […]
By Dapo Akinrefon, James Ogunnaike, Dickson Omobola & Henry Obetta LAGOS —LEKAN Abiola, one of the children of the late Moshood Kashimawo, MKO, Abiola, winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, elections, yesterday, disclosed that former military president, General Ibrahim […]