A magistrate court in Lagos, on Friday, remanded Andrew Nice, driver of the BRT vehicle boarded by Bamise Ayanwola, the late 22-year-old fashion designer, who later...
Despite his grandstanding position, Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has appealed a Federal High Court judgement sacking him and his deputy for dumping the political...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State to vacate the governorship position, for dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on...
Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun of the Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, on Monday sentenced one Ibrahim Kolade to death for armed robbery. The convict was arraigned by...
Justice Agatha A. Okeke of the Federal High Court, Uyo on Thursday, convicted and sentenced one Idongesit Samuel Eyibio to two years imprisonment without the option...
The ongoing case of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari, continued on Monday as a Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja, refused to...
A Lagos High court on Friday convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, and two others for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru. The...
Justice Ismailia Abdullahi of an Upper Area Court in Abuja has officially reversed the bail of a popular aphrodisiac seller, Hauwa Mohammed popularly known as Jaruma....
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday granted an application from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seeking to detain two people named and arrested...
An attempt by detained Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari to regain freedom from custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has been rejected...
The Federal High Court in Abuja, has described the plaintiffs in a suit challenging the Nigerian citizenship of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar as “busy bodies...
Justice Peter Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Thursday sentenced two dismissed policemen to death for armed robbery. The convicts are James...
Following the takeover of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) by United Bank of Africa (UBA), the company’s core investors, CEC Africa Investment Limited and KANN Consortium...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday berated Chief Ifedayo Adedipe SAN, the lawyer to a former Rivers State Governor, Peter Odili for seemingly misleading...
The Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja, on Monday sentenced a security guard, Blessing Okon, to life imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old student...
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has issued a warrant for the arrest of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is reportedly in...
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...
