The Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out the suit filed by the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, challenging the power of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Senate to summon him over national issues relating to his […]
An Ondo state High Court sitting in Akure. has sentenced seven young men to death by hanging and life imprisonment for killing an American based man, Banji Adafin. In one of their operations, the armed robbers that invaded the No. […]
An Abuja High Court has given an injunction restraining the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Cross River State from conducting fresh primaries.Justice O.A Musa also restrained the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party from doing so, pending the determination […]
An Ikeja High Court has dismissed the murder charge filed against Moshood Salvador, the Chairman of the Lagos State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party. Salvador was remanded in the Kirikiri Prisons following his arraignment at a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ […]
Justice Stephen Pam of the Federal High Court Abuja, has ordered the Inspector General of Police Mr Ibrahim Idris to arrest and bring the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu to court. This is due to […]
A Makurdi High Court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced two persons to death by hanging for kidnapping and killing a former Vicar-General of Otukpo Catholic Diocese, Reverend Father John Alexander Adeyi. The court says the convicts conspired and kidnapped Reverend […]
A Zimbabwean politician, Onai Mupondiwa, 37, has been sentenced to 210 hours of community service for allegedly stripping naked and begging a cab driver, Lloyd Gumbo, for sex. The incident involving Mupondiwa, who is a married local politician reportedly happened on the […]
An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a septuagenarian, Adekunle Akinsemoyin, to 10 months imprisonment for conspiracy, malicious damage and breach of peace. Mrs A.T. Omoyele convicted Akinsemoyin, 73, of the three-count charge brought against him by the police, following […]
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, have remanded three persons for alleged murder of one Muyiwa Adelogba. The three accused – Adegboyega Adeola 26; Oniyere Bisi 46; and Oniyere Ojo, 18– were alleged to have […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday authorised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to sieze N200 million allegedly kept in several commercial banks by two military officers and their three firms. Justice Sule Hassan ordered that the […]
A Kaduna High Court on Wednesday adjourned the arraignment of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife Zinat, until August 2. The presiding Judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, adjourned the matter to enable the […]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Tuesday in Abuja, administered the oath of office on Justice Abdul Kafarati as the substantive Chief Judge of the Federal High Court. Administering the oath of office on kafarati, the […]
