Quadri Taiwo, a 17-year-old boy appeared in court for breach of peace and threat to life in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday. The teenager...
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday fixed February 4 for hearing of a suit seeking the removal of a former Speaker...
A court in Egypt on Tuesday sentenced at least 168 militants to life imprisonment over links with the Wilayat Sinai terror group. The group was accused...
Justice G.O Ollor of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, on Friday ordered the unconditional release of 150 inmates from the Maximum Port Harcourt Correctional...
The Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, on Friday sentenced one Pastor Odenigbo Theophilus to seven years in prison for N1million fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes...
Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu on Thursday sentenced a former Rector, Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo to one year in prison for N1.1...
One Adam Kaka Adam, a former banker has been sentenced and convicted to prison over N11 million fraud. The Maiduguri zonal office of the Economic and...
The Cross River State High Court, Akamkpa, on Friday sentenced one Augustine Effiong Bassey to five years imprisonment for stealing N27 million belonging to a microfinance...
A Magistrate Court in Abuja, has sentenced a member of the House of Representatives, Victor Mela, to one month imprisonment. The lawmaker who is a member...
Justice Elvis Ngele of the Ebonyi State High Court, Abakaliki, on Thursday, restrained the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from dissolving the party’s...
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed Friday for ruling on the bail application filed by the Chairman of Senate Committee on...
The Upper Area Court, Kubwa, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the immediate arrest of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, son of Nigeria’s former Vice-President, for disobeying its ruling on...
The Zamfara State High Court, Gusau, on Tuesday sentenced a Deputy Director in the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Ahmad Balarabe, to 14 years imprisonment for N7million...
A Magistrate Court in Wuse, Abuja, on Wednesday, granted bail to six #EndSARS protesters arrested by police last week. The protesters —Oluwatosin Adeniyi, Paul Akinwumi, Davo...
A magistrate court sitting in Abuja has reportedly denied bail to some ENDSARS protesters arrested on Friday in Abuja. Recall that on Friday, Omoyele Sowore, a...
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has dismissed a suit seeking N130 million compensation for a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter...
Justice Samuel Bola of the Ondo State High Court, Akure, on Tuesday, sentenced a panel beater, Modupe Oni, to life imprisonment for defiling a four-year-old girl...
A 41-year-old trader, Adams Bala, has been sentenced to four months imprisonment for receiving stolen items. A Grade I Area Court sitting Kubwa, Abuja, presided over...
Justice Peter Kekemeke of an FCT High Court sitting in Nyanya on Monday fixed November 25 for two policemen arraigned for alleged armed robbery to open...
The Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on Wednesday sentenced one Allen Abel to 125 years in prison for fraudulently obtaining food items valued at N12.8 million....
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to produce in court, a Bayelsa State governorship...
A General Court Martial on Wednesday sentenced a soldier, Lance Corporal Babangida Ibrahim, to 55 years imprisonment for killing a World Health Organisation (WHO) worker, Bello...
The Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, on Wednesday sentenced a 36-year-old man, Ugochukwu Obiakor, to 25 years imprisonment for defiling an 11-year- old girl. Obiakor, who...
The federal government was on Monday threatened with a legal action if it failed to immediately publish the terms and conditions of all loans it has...
Justice E. Thompson of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, on Friday barred the police and other security agencies in the country from arresting the...
One Gloria Monday has been sent to jail for dealing in petroleum products without a licence. Justice I.M. Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in...
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to grant former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha’s request for an order restraining the...
An Osun State High Court sitting in Ile-Ife on Tuesday sentenced a 37- year-old man, Ogunyemi Oluleke to death by hanging for murder. Oluleke was arraigned...
An Ile-Ife Magistrate Court in Osun State remanded a 42-year-old teacher, Eronse Balat, on Tuesday, over alleged r*pe of his student. The prosecutor, Insp. Abdullahi Emmanuel...
An Osun State High Court sitting in Ikire on Monday dismissed reliefs sought by the Akire of Ikire, Oba Olutunde Falabi, restraining the state government from...
An Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, on Wednesday, sentenced one Nurudeen Monsuru to death by hanging for armed robbery. Monsuru, who was arraigned on a two-count...
Justice Othman Musa of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Bwari, Monday ordered the police to unconditionally release the detained spokesman of the Coalition of United...
A Magistrate’s Court in Birnin-Kebbi, on Monday, ordered two men be remanded in police custody for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl. The two men identified as...
Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on Thursday sentenced a former court official to eight years imprisonment for defrauding 194 widows in...
A Chief Magistrate Court in Makurdi, Benue State, on Wednesday sentenced a 22-year-old herdsman, Bala Juli, to one-year imprisonment for openly grazing cattle in the state....
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, granted the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to seize landed property and cash totalling N120,546,...
A joint suit by 32 political parties challenging their deregistration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday, turned out as an exercise in futility....
The Yaba Magistrate Court, Lagos, Wednesday discharged and acquitted a 15-year-old girl accused of killing her father`s friend, Babatunde Ishola. The teenager stabbed Ishola to death...
Lagos High Court, Igbosere, on Tuesday discharged and acquitted a man, Jelili Dimeji of an armed robbery charge brought against him by the state government. The...
Justice Patricia Oduniyi of the Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, on Tuesday, sentenced one Francis Okonkwo to death by hanging for armed robbery. Okonkwo had pleaded...
Justice Lewis Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Kano, on Wednesday set aside the suspension of five members of the Kano State House of Assembly. The...
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday issued an interim order restraining the Edo State government from acting on the report of...
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona to death for killing his 62-year-old father with an iron rod...
The Plateau State Police Command Saturday confirmed the arrest of one John Ladong who was parading himself as a Captain of the Nigerian Army. The state...
A family court in Akure, the Ondo State capital has ordered an Islamic cleric, Alhaji Yusuf Lateef to stay away from a 16-year-old secondary School student...
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, restrained the House of Representatives from inviting the Spokesman of the Coalition of United Political...
A Magistrate Court in Osogbo has remanded 62-yr-old Aketewi of Iketewi, David Ogungbemi in police custody for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl. Also remanded alongside the...
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State, on Thursday awarded the sum of N10m in favour of a businessman, Anthony Okolie who...
A federal high court sitting in Abuja has vacated a ruling that barred the Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) from spending its internally generated revenue. In...
Justice Adolphus Enebeli of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, Wednesday sentenced two men — Ifeanyichukwu Maxwell Dike and Ugochukwu Nwamiro —to death over the...
