COURT CASE

High Court of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Gudu, in Apo, Abuja, has struck out the case of the alleged murder of Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, Osun State. In November last year,…

Embattled Nollywood actor, Baba Ijesha, will be arraigned at an Ikeja special offences court on Thursday, June 24 over allegations of sexual assault against him, it has emerged. Recall that Baba Ijesha was arrested and detained by Lagos…

Federal High Court sitting in Lagos state has ordered the extension of the deadline for National Identity Number (NIN) by two months effective from Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Justice M.A. Onyetenu granted the extension while delivering a…

Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu has faulted argument that his continued stay in office was unlawful having attained the maximum 35 years in service on February 1, 2021. Adamu argued the new Nigeria Police Act gave him a…

A Lagos High Court at the Tafawa Balewa Square has ordered On Air Personality, Toke Makinwa to pay former husband and fitness expert, Maje Ayida the sum of N1 million for defamation. On February 7, 2017, Ayida filed a defamation suit…

Enugu Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has on Thursday, October 8, arraigned a former manager of the main market branch, Heritage Bank Limited, Fidel Omeje, before Justice D.A Onyefulu of State High Court,…

Ajibola Oluyede, lawyer to late Senator Buruji Kashamu, has alleged that the narcotics case against his client in the United States was a case of mistaken identity following an alleged falsification of evidence. Read Also: Breaking:…

A Magistrate Court in Zuba, Abuja has dismissed an assault suit instituted against Adamawa-North lawmaker Senator Elisha Abbo by the police. It would be recalled that Abbo was seen in a viral video assaulting a woman named Osimibibra…

The trial of a Lagos-based cosmetic surgeon, Dr Anuoluwapo Adepoju, adjourned till Thursday, July 9, has been stalled due to the absence of trial judge, Justice Mohammed Liman. The court’s registrar said the case has now been adjourned…

A magistrates’ court in Yaba, Lagos has sentenced 34 fitness enthusiasts to one month of community service and 14 days of quarantine for jogging on the Gbagada-Oworonsoki expressway. According to the court, their act was in…

Kenya is decongesting its prisons to prevent overcrowding as a way to curtail the spread of coronavirus in the country, CNN reports. According to Anne Amadi, the chief registrar of the judiciary, Kenya has in the past month, released…

Instagram celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha has been re-arraigned for an alleged N32.9 billion fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). On October 19, Mompha was first arrested at the…

Nigerian hip-hop artiste, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, has opposed the move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to tender in evidence a Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) said to contain the analysis of…

The United States has opposed plans by Nigeria’s government to handover about $100 million stolen by deceased former dictator Sani Abacha to Kebbi state Governor Abubakar Bagudu. According to reports by Bloomberg, the disagreement may…

Maryam Sanda who was sentenced to death on January 27 for the killing of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello has filed an appeal against her sentence by a Federal High Court in Abuja. She asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja to set aside the…