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...
A State High Court sitting in Owerri, on Monday, ordered the final and absolute forfeiture of Royal Palm Springs Hotel and other properties said to belong...
A Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos has remanded Chidinma Ojukwu, and Adedapo Quadri over alleged murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo...
Justice Aminu K. Tukur of the Katsina State High Court on Thursday sentenced eight internet fraudsters to various jail terms in the state. The convicts were...
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, adjourned hearing in the trial of former Executive Secretary of the state’s Scholarship...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to 12 detained aides of embattled Yoruba Nation activist and freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as...
Calls for the Nigerian Government to comply with the court ruling, discharging the case of the leader of the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh...
A High Court in Kaduna State on Wednesday acquitted the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife. The court also...
The Adamawa State government, on Tuesday defended a former Vice President Atiku Abukakar’s eligibility to contest for the Presidency before a Federal High Court, Abuja. The...
The rape case of embattled Nollywood actor, Baba Ijesha, real name Olanrewaju Omiyinka has been adjourned till August 11 and 12 by the Lagos State Special...
The Convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, who was arrested by security operatives at the federal high court in Abuja on Monday has been released....
A court sitting in Abuja on Monday mandated the release of five activists including a blind Saxophonist, detained by the Department of State Services (DSS). Ripples...
Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Friday an application filed by 11 political parties to stop the local council election in the...
Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, has sentenced an ex-banker, Ebenezer Alonge; and his wife, Isakunle Olamide Oyinlola; to a 60-year...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has decided to pull out of the local council polls schedule for Saturday, July 24, following a court...
American music producer, Andre Young, better known as Dr Dre has to pay the sum of $300,000 (N151 million) to his wife, Nicole Young as monthly...
Justice Mohammed Mohammed of the Sokoto State High Court Monday granted a final forfeiture of N1.3 traced to the account of one Aishatu Bandado Magaji to...
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday granted the request of a former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Kabiru Turaki,...
The Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos on Monday granted bail to 49 Yoruba Nation agitators in the state. The members of the Yoruba separatist group were...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday, July 19, 2021 ruled that a former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has a case to...
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Ayeni Emmanuel...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, if she fails to...
The Port Harcourt Magistrate Court, Rivers State, on Friday granted one Favour Ibama bail following his arraignment by the police for alleged rape and stealing in...
An FCT High Court in Jabi on Thursday adjourned until Oct. 6 and Oct. 7 the trial of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed September 20 for the judgment in the suit by former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu,...
A High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State, has sentenced a 24-year-old man, Dayo Asiwaju, to life imprisonment after he was found guilty...
A High Court in Kaduna State has fixed July 28 for hearing on a no-case-submission filed by Femi Falana (SAN), the lawyer to leader of the...
The Kano State High Court on Wednesday sentenced a 20-year-old man, Salisu Muhammad-Yakasai, to death by hanging for stabbing his football coach, Mujittafa Musa, to death...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered that the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, be remanded in a Department of...
A court in South Africa has handed former President Jacob Zuma, a 15-month jail term for contempt of court following his refusal to appear before it...
Justice T.G. Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday adjourned till October 7, 2021 to hear a motion filed by the...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has sworn in 18 judges who were recently elevated to the Court of Appeal. The new judges of...
The Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday sentenced a 70-year-old man, Olawale Ogun, to seven years’ imprisonment for defrauding two companies of N75.5 million. Justice...
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, dismissed a suit challenging the appointment of 18 new justices for the Court of Appeal....
A 40-year-old Frenchwoman, Valerie Bacot, who admitted to killing her abusive husband, fainted with shock and relief when a court set her free on Friday. The...
A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, on Thursday remanded a 32-year-old man, Afolabi Dada, at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly robbing a man...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, fixed July 2 for adoption of all processes filed by parties in a suit by former Abia Governor, Orji...
Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay of a Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) on Tuesday sentenced a 32-year-old labourer, Philip Ikechi, to life...
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed two separate suits seeking the dissolution of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Committee....
The Lagos State police command will arraign the Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka aka Baba Ijesha, for alleged sexual assault at the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, on...
The Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Monday sentenced a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Oyeyemi Caleb, to two years imprisonment for a romance scam....
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay $951 million to the Bayelsa Government. The amount is the 13 per cent...