Justice Lekan Ogunmoye of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, on Monday, sentenced an ex-soldier, Olasoji Damilola, to death for armed robbery. The judge also...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the interim forfeiture of N110.4 million traced to the bank accounts of one James Erebuoye and seven other persons...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, voided the participation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Andy Uba, in the Nov. 6 Anambra...
A Special Offences Court, Ikeja has granted bail in the sum of N5 million to former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, in the case of alleged...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a retired Customs Officer, Mahmud Hassan, and two others to 16 years imprisonment for conspiracy...
Against speculations that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu may be granted bail today, or removed from the custody of the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, ruled that the banishment of deposed Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II from Kano State was unlawful and unconstitutional. This...
Justice Augustine Odokwo of the Akwa Ibom State High Court, Ikot Ekpene, on Thursday, sentenced one Ekerete Michael Ukpong to death for kidnapping a four-year-old boy...
At least 13 persons were convicted for internet fraud in Oyo State and Osun States on Wednesday. The convicts were – Akintokun Olalekan, Sheriff Hadinan, Ayojide...
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital has remanded two male students of Okporo Secondary School in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area...
A 65-year-old Iranian has died after he set himself on fire in the central province of Markazi in Tehran, in protest against an unfavourable court case....
Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday sentenced five convicted internet fraudsters to various prison terms in the state. The...
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Thursday, convicted two men – Okolie Francis Uchena and Adeyemo Adewale Quadri – for internet...
The former chairman of the now-defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been found guilty of money laundering. This sentence was read on Monday by...
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has halted the Federal Government’s plans to deduct $418 million from the bank account of the 36 states of...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay the sum of N5million to a businessman,...
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has sentenced a lawyer, Kenneth Chukwuemeka Ajoku, to seven years imprisonment for offences bordering...
Justice Abiodun Adesodun of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, sentenced a 43-year-old man, Afolabi Taiwo, to death by hanging for armed robbery....
An 18-year-old student, Solomon Paul has been sentenced to six months in prison by an Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, Plateau State. Paul...
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to unfreeze the accounts of fintech companies pointing out...
Justice Maryam Hassan of the High Court of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Jabi, on Friday granted the former Chairman of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF),...
The Department of State Security (DSS) on Thursday produced the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra at the Federal High Court, Abuja in continuation of...
The leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has arrived the Federal High Court, Abuja amidst tight security. Ripples Nigeria had reported that Kanu...
The Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, October 18, 2021, secured the conviction of five fraudsters before Justice S....
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approached the State High Court sitting in Osogbo seeking the sack of the 68 local...
Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Lagos has summoned the Ogun State House of Assembly to show cause within seven days, why it...
The trial of Fred Ajudua for allegedly obtaining money to the tune of $8.4m could not continue on Monday, as his lawyer, Olalekan Ojo, SAN, sought...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted an order of interim forfeiture of 11 high-end designer items confiscated by the Economic and Financial Crimes...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Friday ordered that a 33-year-old man, Kabiru Garba be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has fined a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, a sum of N200,000 for being absent at his re-arraignment,...
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old man, Godwin Matthew, who allegedly macheted his 64-year-old father, Matthew Audu to death in Akure, for giving...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 52-year-old man, Sunday Anthony, should be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly raping his 17-year-old...
The Police on Monday arraigned a 35-year-old man, Kolawole Damilare, in an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly obtaining N1 million under false pretence. The...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday sentenced Faisal Maina, son of the former Chairman of defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT)Abdulrasheed Maina, to 14...
Justice C.A. Balogun of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, on Tuesday, adjourned the trial of the Chairman of Nadabo Energy Limited, Abubakar Ali Peters for...
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to adequately compensate ENaira Payment Solutions Limited for...
A businessman, Hussaini Shehu, and his wife, Farida Idris, were on Thursday arraigned by the police at the Wuse Zone 6 Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abuja,...
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 secured the conviction of one Akinluyi Damilola Gabriel, a...
The Kogi State High Court, Lokoja, on Wednesday sentenced a middle-aged man, Danladi Ichado to death by hanging for stabbing two women to death. Justice Nicodemus...
A court in the Northern District of Oklahoma, United States, has sentenced a 36-year-old Nigerian, Afeez Adebara, to four years in prison for internet fraud. Adebara...
The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has vowed to sue governors in the southern states and the Middle Belt who have passed the anti-open grazing laws. The...
A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, on Wednesday, sacked the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, as the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee...
A 34-year-old self-confessed lesbian, Busisiwe Labi, has been sentenced to 22 years and six months imprisonment by a South African court for killing her two children....
An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday dissolved a 10-year-old marriage over the wife’s penchant for stealing. A 45-year-old businessman, Mr Mutiu Bamgbose, in his...
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday granted the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s request to block accounts of six fintech companies...
Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Friday ordered the interim forfeiture of N241milion allegedly diverted by some individuals from the office of...
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, has sentenced Ali Yakubu Numan, a businessman in the state, to two and half years in prison...
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday remanded eight herders for alleged kidnapping and collection of N22 million ransom. The defendants are: Umoru...
A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, on Wednesday, remanded a 43-year-old businessman, Emeka Orisakwe for allegedly defiling his three daughters. Magistrate Ejiro Kubeinje, who...
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, has remanded a businessman, Ali Yakubu, in prison custody over a Facebook post he made...
