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Yoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) at his house in the Soka area of Ibadan on July 1. Chief Yomi Aliyu SAN, counsel to the Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingChairman of Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Professor John Ibu, who was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission () for alleged N24.6 million fraud, is reported to have been identified as the father of Pastor Becky Enenche, wife of Pastor Paul Enenche, founder of Dunamis International Gospel Centre. Becky Eneche was reported to […]
Continue ReadingUS comedian Bill Cosby was freed from prison on Wednesday, in a blow to the #MeToo movement, after a US court overturned his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago. The 83-year-old left SCI Phoenix, a state jail 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled […]
Continue ReadingThe Chief Magistrate Court 2, Iyaganku, Ibadan, in the Oyo State capital, Nigeria, has ordered the release of three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress, three months after their detention by the Oyo State Police Command. The OPC members – Awodele Adedigba, Dauda Kazeem and Hassan Ramon – had been detained mid-March 2021 after they […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, restrained the Ondo State government from investigating the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Akeredolu over a viral video made by a citizen of the state, Olupelumi Fagboyegun. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the order while delivering a judgement in the suit brought by the CJ against Governor Oluwarotimi […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has been arraigned at the Magistrate Court 1, Yaba, Lagos. He was arraigned today Wednesday, June 16, around 9.00am. However, the Magistrate court sitting in Yaba, Lagos state, has denied the embattled actor, bail. The movie star was arrested in April this year for allegedly defiling […]
Continue ReadingA woman has been ordered by the court to compensate her former husband with K4,000 following her confession that he was not the biological father of the child she gave birth to while they were still married. Melody Kafula revealed in the Kabushi Local Court, Zambia that she was three months pregnant for another man […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and activist, Femi Falana’s son, Folarin Falana aka Falz has reacted to the court order secured by the Central Bank of Nigeria to freeze the accounts of 18 #EndSARS promoters. On November 5, Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja granted the request of the CBN to freeze the accounts […]
Continue ReadingOne lawyer, Tope Akinyode, has dragged Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Senate and two others to court over the proposed ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill 2019.” In the suit he filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos, Akinyode is seeking an order of perpetual injunction prohibiting the respondents from enacting the […]
Continue Reading27-year-old housewife, Stella, who allegedly stole breast pads and other beauty from a supermarket, on Wednesday appeared in an Upper Area Court in Mpape, Abuja. Stella, who resides in Efab Estate, Lokogoma Abuja, is charged with two counts of criminal trespass and stealing. The Prosecution Counsel, Mr Stanley Nwaforaku, told the court that the case […]
Continue ReadingThe Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos to stop the Senate President, Bukola Saraki from paying N14.2 million monthly allowances to former Plateau State governor, Senator Joshua Dariye while he serves out a 10-year prison sentence for corruption because such payment violates Nigerian law […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has described as empty boast the threat by the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to sue him over his recent statement that Oshiomhole has no moral basis to be in politics. Saraki however expressed his readiness to meet Oshiomhole in court if the […]
Continue ReadingEx-Nigerian National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), on Tuesday said he would no longer appear in court for his trial on alleged illegal possession of firearms and money laundering until the Federal Government obeys valid court orders admitting him to bail. Apart from the charge of illegal possession of firearms, he is also […]
Continue ReadingA mild drama happened on Tuesday at a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, when a housewife and mother of two, Beauty Odinye, prayed the court to disregard her earlier plea for divorce. She also asked the court to ignore her testimony in which she alleged that her husband, Nathaniel, was impotent. Beauty had earlier in […]
Continue Reading19 suspected persons to be in connection with the death of General Idris Alkali have been arraigned before a High Court in Jos on Monday. They were all arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide. The two counts charge was read out to the 19 accused persons, who all pleaded […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has been admitted to bail. He was granted bail in the sum of N50 million. His bail application was granted during his second appearance before the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday. Mr. Fayose was last week arraigned before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun by the […]
Continue ReadingAn Upper Area Court sitting in the Mararaba area of Nasarawa state, is set to dissolve the marriage of a couple after a wife sought for divorce over sex denial. A housewife, Sa’adatu Musa, on Monday, begged a Mararaba Upper Area Court, in Nasarawa, to dissolve her marriage to her husband, Dembe for allegedly denying […]
Continue ReadingImmediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Monday appeared before a Federal High Court, Lagos, and was charged with N30.8 billion fraud. Fayose is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside his company — Spotless Investment Ltd — on an 11-count charge of N30.8 billion fraud. According to the […]
Continue ReadingAn Ibadan, Oyo state customary court sitting in Mapo, Tuesday, granted leave to the Secretary of the State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Mojeed Olaoya to arrest his estranged wife, Alimot for allegedly flouting the order of the court. Reports have it that Alimot and her husband had been at loggerheads […]
Continue ReadingSouth African Constitutional Court has legalised the private use of marijuana also known as cannabis or weeds. The ruling came, Tuesday, after a provincial high court in 2017 found out that the use of cannabis in private space should be allowed. The court said laws against it were inconsistent with the country’s constitution. “It will […]
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