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.” […]
Metropolitan Archbishop of Enugu Anglican Province, Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, criticized Kanu for the manner he was arrested. He said: “I think his extradition is a good development, which will bring a little bit of calm and peace to the boys he has been instigating and to Igboland so that we can have a peaceful […]
