The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area has sentenced two police officers and three others to death. The accused were sentenced to death on Friday for kidnapping an Uyo-based cattle dealer, Alhaji Muhammad Barkindo. In her ruling, the presiding judge, Justice Eno Isangedighi, held that the accused were guilty
A High Court in Abeokuta, on Friday sentenced a 44-year-old man, Tosin Shodunke to death by hanging for armed robbery. Shodunke had pleaded not guilty to the two counts of conspiracy and armed robbery. Delivering judgment, Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, held that the court was convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the convict was guilty as charged.
After a protracted legal tussle, the family of Efunloye Tinubu has taken over property at Akobi Crescent, Surulere after legal tussle that lasted three years. The land measuring 8.994 acres located at Akobi Crescent, off Fashoro Lane, Surulere, became a subject of legal matter when a retired colonel, Tunde Oyedele challenged the family in a
The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has filed a fresh civil suit against the publisher of Daily Nigerian (an online news medium), Mr. Jaafar Jaafar. Ganduje in the Writ of Summons had filed a civil suit with No CU/1598/2021 dated 15 July, 2021 against Jaafar Jaafar and Penlight Light Media Limited at an Abuja High
The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has adjourned till October 5, 2021, for the continuation of trial in the case of Afeez Adeshina Fashola, also known as Naira Marley, who was arraigned sometime in 2019 on an 11-count charge of credit card fraud preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
Royal Dutch Shell has abandoned its argument that the oil pollution lawsuit filed against it by the Ogale and Bille communities in Rivers state, be heard in Nigeria rather than the UK. Bloomberg reports that Shell’s legal team refused to return to the High Court of England with the argument that the five-year-old case would
The five-year-old wedlock between a woman, Mufuliat Soremekun and her husband, Abass Soremekun was recently dissolved by Oja Oba/ Mapo Court C Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State. Mufuliat who dragged her husband to court alleged that he was a drunk. She added that he has introduced their two children who are underage to this
Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services at his house in the Soka area of Ibadan on July 1. Counsel for the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Yomi Aliyu (SAN), told our correspondent on the
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday fixed September 27 to decide on the application brought before it by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to take over a case against a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim. The complainant, Chinyere Amuchienwa, had alleged that Ohakim
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit in court seeking to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose “spending details of the overdrafts and loans obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) since May 29, 2015, including the projects on which the overdrafts have been spent, and repayments of all overdrafts to date.”