Lawyers on Friday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to name the owner of the huge sums of money found in an Ikoyi apartment.Constitutional lawyer and rights activist Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) said the claim that the money […]
WHO owns the huge cash recovered from an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday?The knotty question remained unanswered yesterday, but the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) moved the cash to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Besides, it obtained […]
The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday ordered the temporary forfeiture of $43,449,947 (about N13billion), N23, 218,000 million and £27,800 (about N10.6milion) cash found in Flat 7B, Osborne Towers, 16, Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.Justice Muslim Hassan ordered that the money […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence passed on a man, Asuquo Okon Asuquo, for killing a neighbor, Andong Bassey Andong, over a boundary dispute in their compound.Asuquo was arraigned before the Cross River State High Court in […]
The Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT) has said that it would assist the Federal Government to solve the country’s security challenges.NALT National President, Prof. Godwin Okeke, said this on Tuesday after meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the […]
A Bar leader, Chief Solomon Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), has warned the Registered Trustees of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) of the consequences of the association’s failure to obey the Federal High Court judgment which nullified the 2014 and 2015 NBA […]
Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja Tuesday granted the request by the prosecution for the shielding of its witnesses’ identity in the trial of some ex-Boko Haram leaders.Justice Tsoho directed that prosecution witnesses should be protected by […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday intercepted huge sums of money in various currencies totalling N250 million at the popular Balogun market in Lagos.This came barely three days after the commission recovered N449 million at an abandoned […]
An Ondo state high court has jailed seven suspected herdsmen for life over the kidnap of Olu Falae, former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF).On Monday, September 21, which was the elder statesman 77th birthday, armed men invaded […]
Justice Ishaq Bello of an Abuja High Court finally entered judgment in the case known as the Apo Six Trial on March 9, to the relief of a baffled nation which had been on tenterhooks for all of the eleven […]