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 Adebayo A 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 Blankson President 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 ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA Former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, who is seeking to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, closed his case before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja. Atiku, ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The Presidential Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja yesterday admitted in evidence a bundle of exhibits containing the total number of Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, collected in 32 states of the federation before the 2023 general elections. Equally admitted in ...

The Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi on Monday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) refused to provide the documents they asked for. Obi and the LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election of President ...

By Francis Ezediuno The Federal High Court in Abuja has suspended the trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Adaeze Oduah in the alleged N7.9 billion fraud charges brought against her by the Federal Government. The planned arraignment of Mrs Oduah for today, June 15, was put off ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, wielded the big stick against a legal practitioner, Mr Chuks Nwachukwu, who it ordered to pay a fine of N20 million for filing a frivolous suit to stop the inauguration of President Bola Tinubu on May 29. The lawyer represented five residents of ...

By  Dayo Oyewo The Presidential Election Petition Court has stepped down hearing in the petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party against the election of President Bola Tinubu. This latest development is a result of an improper schedule of documents tendered before the court as proof ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, and his party were on Wednesday forced to request for a short adjournment from the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) hearing their case against the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The request was occasioned ...

By  Rotimi Agbana A 40-year-old man, Arnold Masuka has asked a local court in Lusaka, Zambia to dissolve the marriage between him and his wife, Hilda Mleya as a result of her exceptional beauty. According to a report by Zambia Observer, Arnold asked for divorce from his wife because her ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday slammed a fine of N40 million on a former Presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru for filing a frivolous suit to stop the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29. The appellate court ordered the ...

Friday Olokor, Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Dirisu Yakubu and Deborah Tolu-Kolawole Ahead of today’s ruling on the application for live transmission of the proceedings of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party and the All Progressives Congress have ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to account for the spending of $460 million Chinese loan to fund the failed Abuja Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) project. The court also ordered the government to publish the total amount of money paid to ...

By  Sunny Green Itodo The divorce trend rocking the world of entertainment and business has been most renowned for its juicy settlements. Some of the richest women in the world today made their fortunes from high-profile splits. The top 5 richest men in the world have all been caught in the ...

Details have emerged on the lawsuit instituted by the Governor-elect of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, against the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and its Director, Corps Certification, Ibrahim Muhammad, as he demands N20 billion in general and exemplary damages against the Defendants ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) has reserved its ruling in an application for live broadcast of the proceedings regarding the petition of candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. A five member panel of justices of the PREPEC on Thursday, ...

Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, restrained the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and its Director, Corps Certification, Ibrahim Muhammad, from issuing, publishing or continued to issue, publish disclaimer to the effect that the NYSC certificate of national service, ...

By Ise-Oluwa Ige In this report, Saturday Vanguard examines the five lawsuits filed at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja to stop Bola Ahmed Tinubu from Aso Villa, critiques the tribunal’s composition and the level of trust top lawyers have in the panel members and argues that ...

By Wale Odunsi A Magistrate Court in Ilorin, the Kwara capital, on Thursday remanded a medical expert, Dr Ayodele Joseph. The Chief Medical Director of Ayodele Hospital in Ilorin allegedly raped a lady who came for treatment in his hospital at the Sawmill area. The police accuse the ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, adjourned further proceedings on the joint petition the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, filed to challenge the outcome of the 2023 presidential ...

A 23-year-old student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko in Akure Ondo State, (names withheld) on Tuesday, narrated to an Ikeja Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court how she was allegedly raped by the founder of her church, Oluwafeyiropo Daniels, of I Reign Christian Family Church. ...

By Francis Ugwu The presidential election petition tribunal has commenced proceedings in Abuja. Recall that Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, are challenging the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA As the Presidential Election Petition Court, starts hearing today, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have filed an application for an order to allow live coverage of day-to-day proceedings on the case they brought against the ...

By  Damilola Olufemi The United Kingdom court has sentenced former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for an organ trafficking plot. The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four years six months while the medical doctor who ...

Check out this tactical question from ABU Zaria Source: https://twitter.com/General_Oluchi/status/1654061716806696960?t=fwvJKKmEZbBZtgKPBWMH2A&s=19

ARCON is seeking N30 billion in fines and sanctions for continued violations and infractions of the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria Act No. 23 of 2022. The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has granted Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) leave to serve a writ of ...

The House of Representatives has made an appeal to the Central Criminal Court and the government of the UK to show mercy in the sentencing of former deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu, and Dr. Obinna Obeta, who have been found guilty of organ ...

By Wale Odunsi For making a false call to the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, a teenager has earned himself an avoidable conviction. At the Samuel Ilori Magistrate Court Ogba in Ikeja on Thursday, Uzuokwu Solomon was found guilty on a two-count charge. Magistrate Bambo Odueke committed him ...

By Nsikak Nseyen A Federal High Court on Tuesday ordered the release of processes and documents in the money laundering trial of former Minister of State for Finance Nenadi Esther Usman and others to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday restored Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Ararume as non-Executive Chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited NNPCL. The Court voided the sack of the businessman and set aside the removal done on January 17, 2023, by President Muhammadu Buhari on ...

Nigerian street-pop artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, also known as Portable has been sent back to the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. The ‘Zeh’ crooner was granted bail in the sum of N800,000 altogether for the three charges against him, with two ...

A coalition of civil societies and leaders of thought has called for the upcoming electoral cases in court to be televised and for the judgments to be delivered before the scheduled date of the swearing-in of election winners. The group is inviting Nigerians to sign up for an appeal on ...

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Following the judgement of the Appeal Court that affirmed his victory as the duly elected Governor of Osun state, Senator Ademola Adeleke has described the outcome as “no victory, no vanquish”. Speaking shortly after the judgement at his Ede country home, the Governor ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Gift Habib and Esther Blankson