By Sandra Umeh A 43-year-old trader identified as Abubakar Sulaiman has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to charges bordering on drug trafficking before Justice Ambrose Lewis Alagoa of the Federal High Court Lagos. Justice Alagoa […]
Two companies identified as FARM360 Limited and MCBHADMOS Trans- Atlantic on a five-count charge bordering on operating collective investment schemes without a licence either by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, or the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC by the […]
A United States of America court has sentenced five Nigerians to over 159 years of combined jail term for defrauding over 100 Americans, companies and government entities to the tune of $17m. This was contained in a statement obtained on […]
The Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC , has arraigned the director of Glossalalia Nigeria Ltd and Pelenged Nigeria Ltd, Precious Williams before Justice S. I . Mark of the Federal High Court, sitting […]
Two lawyers, Ademola Owolabi and Adebayo Akeju, were on Monday arraigned before the Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square for alleged forgery and wilful destruction of property. They were arraigned alongside a real estate developer, Alex Ochonogor, […]
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 […]