Nigerian Court Awards N4million Compensation To Businessman Detained, Tortured After Catching Policeman With His Wife In His Matrimonial Home

A Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Celestine Umeh, the Nigeria Police Force and the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police have been ordered by the Akwa Ibom State High Court…

Nigerian Army disobeys court, refuses to release Enugu gov’s aide

Nearly a week after a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, ordered the Nigerian Army to release unconditionally, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Security matters to the…

Buhari approves Husseini Baba-Yusuf as acting FCT Chief Judge

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf as the acting Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on the recommendation of the…

Senatorial Seat: Stephen Odey Loses To Jarigbe Agom Again

INEC to withdraw the Certificate of Return earlier issued to Senator Stephen Odey. Senator Stephen Odey has lost another bid to reclaim his seat as the lawmaker representing Cross River…

JSS 1 Student Flogged For Indecent Hairstyle Demands N15m In Suit Against Ekiti

Gift Agenoisa, a JSS1 student flogged and suspended for coming to school with an “indecent hairstyle” has sued Ekiti state government and is seeking N15 million in damages for breach…

PDP asks court to remove Buni as Yobe governor

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has instituted a suit seeking the removal of Mai Mala Buni from office as Yobe governor. In the suit dated and filed August 12, the…

Seized 25 trucks: A/Court dismisses Evans’ N200m suit against police

The Court of Appeal Lagos division on Thursday dismissed an appeal by alleged kidnap kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, challenging the seizure of his 25 trucks by the police. A…

Adamawa businessman bags 30-month jail for calling Gov Fintiri ‘Father of all thieves

A Yola Chief Magistrate Court II, presided over by Magistrate Japhet Basani, has convicted and sentenced a Numan-based businessman, Ali Yakubu Numan, to two-and-a-half-year jail term for calling Governor Ahmadu…

Arrest of Abuja ‘sex workers’: Court awards N4m against police, NSCDC, AEPB

A federal high court sitting in Abuja has condemned the arrest of six women alleged to be sex workers in Abuja. Evelyn Maha, the judge, held that the arrest of…

JUDGEMENT ANALYSIS: Appeal Court Kano, did not declare Soludo APGA Guber Candidate

By Ibe Pascal Arogorn The appeal court sitting in Kano has never declared Prof Chukwuma Soludo as APGA guber candidate nor Victor as APGA national chairman, Crimefacts.news can authoritatively report.…

BREAKING: Court Declines Okorocha’s Application To Stop Confiscation Of His Properties

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday declined an application by former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha asking it to restrain the Imo State Government and the Economic and…

BREAKING: DSS asks court to cancel Igboho’s associates’ bail

The Department of State Services has filed a remand application at the Federal High Court in Abuja, asking the court to nullify the bail earlier granted to four of the…

Anambra Guber Election and Judicial Rascality

The ruling by Justice Chioma Nwosu-Ikpeme of the Court of Appeal sitting in Awka berating a Jigawa State High Court and Imo State High Court for bringing the name of…

Dollar Videos: Ganduje Yet To Pay Daily Nigerian Publisher N800,000 Fine

Court ordered Governor Ganduje to pay Jaafar and his newspaper the said amount for withdrawing a defamation suit against the publisher without a genuine reason. The court had, on Tuesday,…

STRINGENT BAIL CONDITIONS: 12 Igboho’s aides still with DSS

The 12 detained associates of the Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (Sunday Igboho) are still in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) three days after a Federal…