By Francis UgwuA 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 AtungwuA 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 ...

Two traditional religion devotees; Abdulazeez Adegbola aka Tani Olohun and one Chief Ademola Olawoore, Oluwo of Tede, who were both standing trial of alleged defamation at the Kwara State Upper Area Court sitting in Ilorin will know their fate Monday when the court sits to determine their case. ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, has dismissed as incompetent, the case the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, filed to nullify President Bola Tinubu’s election. The court held that issues the APM raised in its petition contained pre-election matters that could only be ...

By Ayoola Olasupo The Planter of the Christ Apostolic Church, Adamimogo Grace of Mercy Prayer Mountain Worldwide, Sam Alo, has called on the Federal Government to intervene in the matter which resulted in the arrest of a popular Isese activist, Adegbola Abdulazeez, also known as Talolorun. ...

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has been  dragged  to court over the floating of Naira currency.Falana disclosed this while speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Friday.Recall that the apex bank reportedly told Deposit Money Banks to ...

By Racheal Ayodele The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has struck out the illegal possession of firearms charges against the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele by the Federal Government. Justice Nicholas Oweibo gave the order on Thursday, following the ...

A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Malcolm Omirhobo, has sued the Emir of Ilorin, Dr Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, for allegedly stopping traditional religious worshippers from holding their Isese festival in Ilorin, Kwara State.In the suit filed before the Kwara State High Court,  ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja Division on Wednesday, adjourned indefinitely to deliver judgment in an appeal by a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi state, Abubakar Achimugu against a judgment of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja which affirmed Ahmed Ododo as ...

A Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois County, United States of America, has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the general elections, requesting President Bola Tinubu’s academic records from the Chicago State University.During the ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi The Supreme Court of Nigeria has clarified that the Chief Justice of Nigeria CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola had no telephone conversation with anyone, including President Bola Tinubu on the ongoing presidential election petition on the 2023 election. The Apex Court said ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi Justice Yusuf Halilu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has discharged Senator Rochas Okorocha from corruption charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This is the third time Okorocha has been freed by courts in ...

By Musliudeen AdebayoA former governor of Oyo State, Rasidi Ladoja has dragged Governor Seyi Makinde and the Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Lekan Balogun to court, DAILY POST reports. The former governor also dragged Ibadan High Chiefs who were recently elevated as Kings to court. Recall ...

For failing to provide details of the projects executed or being executed with the $5 billion returned Abacha loot, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, weekend, ordered the administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari to ...

The microblogging site, Twitter has written to Meta threatening to take legal action over its new app, Threads.The PUNCH reports that the app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 2300 GMT on Wednesday and will run with no ads for now, but its release in Europe has been ...

By Francis Ugwu The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to DCP Abba Kyari on charges bordering on money laundering. Apart from money laundering charges, Kyari is also facing a primary charge of cocaine trafficking, for which he has been denied bail. One of his lawyers, Hamza N. ...

By  Esther BlanksonPresident Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday tendered 18 exhibits at the Presidential Election Petition Court in defence against the petition filed by the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi challenging his victory at the polls.The exhibits ...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has awarded a N1 million fine against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission for the unlawful detention of former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Dibu Ojerinde. In the ruling, Justice Obiora Egwuatu also awarded ...

By Amos Tauna Justice SA Amobeda of a Federal High Court in Kano has stopped Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State from further demolishing structures. Saminu Muhammad, a Kano citizen, instituted the motion ex-parte through his lawyer. The court, following the motion, restrained the state ...

By Don Silas Peter Obi and his Labour Party, LP, on Friday closed their petition before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) challenging the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Obi and LP are complainants in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023, challenging the 2023 general ...