The Delta State High Court in Warri has issued an order restraining the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board from implementing its recent policy requiring a minimum admissible age of 16 years for university admissions in the country pending the hearing and determination of the motion on ...

By Favour Olekanma A high court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, on Tuesday ordered social media critic, Martins Vincent Otse AKA VeryDarkMan to delete defamatory videos on human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN. ...

By Seun Opejobi The Acting Inspector-General of Police in Kenya, Gilbert Masengeli has been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt by the country’s High Court. In his ruling on Friday, Justice Lawrence Mugambi gave Masengeli seven days ...

By Kayode Lawal The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday slammed N10 million bail each on the ten members of the #endbadgovernance# protesters who were charged with attempting to overthrow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu between July 1 and ...

By Seun Opejobi Activist lawyer, Madubuachi Idam, on Thursday said Nigerian laws frown at a woman getting 50 percent of her husband’s properties during divorce. Idam warned that women who push their ...

By Seun Opejobi The Court of Appeal on Tuesday ordered the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello to produce himself for arraignment. The Court also restrained Bello from taking further steps in the charge unless he is arraigned. The court further set aside the judgment delivered by ...

By Kayode Lawal A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has restricted participants in the August 1 hunger protest against the federal government to the MKO Abiola stadium, also known as the National Stadium. Justice Sylvanus Oriji issued the order on Wednesday in Abuja while delivering a ...

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission says the $200m fine against Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp LLC was based on discriminatory practices and sanctionable offences committed. The acting Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Dr Adamu Abdullahi, said in a news conference ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, dismissed a suit praying that the Arabic inscriptions on naira notes be removed. Justice Yellin Bogoro declared that the Lagos-based lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, who filed the suit, failed to prove that the use of Arabic inscriptions on the naira ...

By Don Silas A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has nullified the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano. The court, which delivered a verdict on Thursday, also nullified all the actions taken after the controversial reinstatement. The presiding hudge, Justice Abdullahi ...

Binance expressed relief on Friday as the Federal High Court in Abuja cleared Tigran Gambaryan, a 39-year-old American and fleeing Nadeem Anjarwalla, of tax evasion charges filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service. The court’s decision came after the FIRS submitted amended charges that ...

By Ifeanyi Nwannah Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, has faulted the state judiciary for granting bail to some suspected bandit leaders who were arrested with weapons and brought before the court for trials. The governor claimed that the suspected bandit leaders were released by order from ...

By Muhammad Bukar The Federal High Court in Abuja has awarded the sum of N25 million in damages against the Kano State Government and the police for wrongly accusing Alhaji Alhassan Ado Doguwa, of murder. Mr. Doguwa, a representative of the Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency in the House of ...

By Muhammad Bukar A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has granted an ex-parte order stopping Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano from reinstating Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II pending the determination of a substantive suit filed against the reinstatement. The order also kicked against the abolishment ...

By Francis Ugwu A yet-to-be-identified septuagenarian has slumped and died inside an Ondo State High Court in Oka, Ondo. According to the Nation, the incident happened before court proceedings began. Witnesses said that the deceased was present to testify in a case involving his friend. A court ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed the request by terrorist negotiator, Mohammed Tukur Mamu, for his transfer from the custody of the Department of the State Service, DSS, to Kuje Prison in Abuja. Mamu is standing trial for ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Gwagwalada, Abuja, has convicted one Mrs Ramat Mercy Mba, a mother of five, for forging the signature of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, the late Abba Kyari. Justice Ibrahim Mohammad however deferred the ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi A former Aviation Minister, Hadi Abubakar Sirika, on Thursday at the High Court of the Federal Capitol Territory FCT denied the alleged corrupt practices involving about N4. 135 billion brought against him by the federal government. Sirika was arraigned before Justice Sylvanus ...

By Francis Ugwu A Chief Magistrate court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has ordered a 43-year-old man, Chibike Nwakedi, not to communicate with his wife, Blessing, for two weeks until they return to court on the adjourned date. The Chief Magistrate, Dolamu Babalogbon, told the defendant ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF) to re-open the investigation and prosecution of those who murdered the founder of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, in 1986. Dele Giwa was murdered on October 19, 1986 in ...

The former Brazil international Dani Alves has denied raping a young woman at a nightclub in Barcelona . Alves is currently standing trial after being accused of sexually assaulting a girl in a bathroom at the Sutton nightclub in the Catalan capital on the night of December 30 to 31, 2022 After ...

MARTINEZ — The suspect in a Bay Point homicide has been sentenced to 14 years in state prison as part of a plea deal that required the dismissal of his murder charge, court records show. Donald Robbins, 64, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 62-year-old Marty ...

By Matthew Atungwu Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday nullified a criminal charge preferred against a former Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu, and two others over alleged N21.5 billion money laundering. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had ...

The trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has yet to commence over one month after the Supreme Court judgment. The apex court had on December 15, 2024, set aside a judgment by the lower court that dismissed the terrorism charges against Kanu. The apex court held ...

Simmons was released in July after serving a total of 48 years, one month and 18 days in prison. A 71-year-old man has been declared innocent in the US state of Oklahoma after spending nearly 50 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Glynn Simmons, who is Black, served more time ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi The Supreme Court on Friday declined to order the release of the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. DAILY POST reports that the apex court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, but written by Justice Garba Lawal, ...

Marlian Music boss Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, has accused actress Iyabo Ojo of disseminating false and defamatory content against him on the internet. Naira Marley’s lawyer, Olalekan Ojo, in a letter sent to the actress, outlined the accusations made in a September ...

By Matthew Atungwu A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello to pay the sum of N500 million to the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Murtala Ajaka, for violating his fundamental rights. In his decision, Justice Inyang Ekwo ...

By Muhammad Bukar A Federal High Court has frozen the accounts of the Kano State Government due to its failure to comply with a court order to pay N30 billion in compensation to victims of the Filling Idi Demolition exercise. The frozen order affects 24 Kano State bank accounts, including the ...

By Ochogwu Sunday An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, sentenced a 45- year-old native doctor, Micheal Oyewole, to 12 months imprisonment for killing his neighbour’s cow. The convict, who resides at the Araromi Alakaloko Olomore area in Abeokuta, pleaded not guilty to the three-count ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama has granted bail to former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. He was granted bail in the sum of N300 million. In a ruling on Wednesday, Justice Hamza Muazu held that Emefiele should ...

A certified copy of the Appeal Court judgement on Kano State Governorship election has affirmed the victory of Abba Yusuf as the duly elected Governor. As indicated in the written judgement, the Court of Appeal set aside the judgement of the Kano election petition tribunal for lacking in merit. ...

Detained former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday arrived his Abuja home, after being released on bail by an Abuja High Court. He has spent 151 days in the custody of security agencies. A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at ...

The Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, on Monday, sent back to custody a 37-year-old auxiliary nurse, Fisayo Ogedengbe,  arrested by the police in connection with the controversial death of hip hop artiste, Ilerioluwa Aloba, alias Mohbad. The nurse, it was alleged, gave the late singer some ...

By Seun Opejobi The Federal Capital Territory High Court has ordered the unconditional and immediate release of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Justice O.A. Adeniyi made the order following an ex-parte motion filed by Emefiele. In the motion, the ex-CBN ...

By Muhammad Bukar A Sharia Court of the Kano Hisbah Board has sentenced eight crossdressers to three months in prison and ten lashes each for indecent dresses and dancing like women in public. The Sharia Court had already carried out the public open beatings of the convicts according to Islamic ...

A Kwara State Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ilorin, on Monday, granted bail to a traditional religion devotee, Abdulazeez Adegbola, also known as Tani Olohun, after spending 75 days in the custodial facility of the Nigeria Correctional Service in Ilorin. Tani Olohun was arraigned on August 17 on ...

By Francis Ugwu An Investigative Police Officer (IPO), ASP Babatunde Ashifat, on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how one Jelili Lawal allegedly raped a 78-year-old woman to death. Ashifat was led in evidence by Lagos State counsel, Ms Bukola Okeowo, at the ...

By Francis Ugwu Nigeria has won its case against the Process and Industrial Developments Company, P&ID. In the case marked CL-2019-000752, the Federal Government sought to overturn an arbitration award in favour of P&ID which has now accrued interest worth $11 billion. The company had ...

By Tunde Oyekola There was a mild drama at the Kwara Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday as two lawyers representing Abdulazeez Adegbola, also known as Tani Olohun, who is standing trial for alleged defamation disagreed openly over the right to move a motion on the case. The two ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 25 election, Atiku Abubakar, has urged the Supreme Court to allow him to present fresh evidence to back his claim that President Bola Tinubu forged the document he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission. ...

By Sunny Green Itodo A lawyer to singer Abdulazeez Afolabi aka Naira Marley, has downplayed claims of Sam Larry bullying late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba also known as Mohbad during a video shoot. Afolabi said the viral video of Sam Larry bullying Mohbad during a music video shoot was not a ...

By Abdul Babajide A clergyman, identified as Paul Oyewole, has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court in Ondo State on charges of threatening to kill a magistrate, Mosunmola Ikujuni. The alleged threat came after Oyewole accused the magistrate of refusing to heed his warnings. The case ...

By Sunny Green Itodo A magistrate court in the Yaba area of Lagos State has remanded Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, and Lagos socialite Balogun Eletu, also known as Sam Larry. The duo will remain in custody for 21 days. The Lagos State Police Command had sought a 30-day remand ...

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Kaduna State is set to deliver its judgement via Zoom. The tribunal will today deliver judgement virtually on the petition brought before it by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Isah Mohammed Ashiru, against the election of Uba Sani as ...

The Kwara Upper Area Court sitting in Ilorin on Monday granted bail in the sum of N5m to Isese advocate, Abdulazeez Adegbola, alias Tani Olorun, who is being prosecuted for criminal defamation and public disturbance. The presiding judge, Mr Sunday Adeniyi, granted the bail with two sureties in ...

A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt has discharged and Acquitted a lecturer with the Rivers State University, Prof. David Ogbonna, who was standing trial on alleged sexual assault on a female student of the said institution. Ogbonna, former Head of Department of Microbiology, RSU, was ...

The Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal will deliver judgment for Lagos State on Monday, September 25, Punch Online reports. Via a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday, the governorship flag bearer for the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, said that he has been informed ...

U.S. District Judge, Nancy Maldonado has agreed to stay an order requiring Chicago State University, CSU, to provide certain academic documents of Bola Tinubu, who is now the President of Nigeria. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert had two days ago ordered the CSU to submit the documents by the ...

A Kwara State Upper Area Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital on Monday ruled that it has jurisdiction to try a defamation case brought against Azeez Adegbola aka Talolorun, and Chief Ademola Olawoore, popularly known as Oluwo Nla of Tede. The court presided by Mr Sunday Adeniyi ruled that ...