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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, for allegedly forging medical reports to evade trial. Mr Fani-Kayode appeared before an Ikeja Special Offences Court on a 12-count charge. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…

The crisis rocking the Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) is getting messier as a faction of the party has filed a notice of appeal and Stay of Execution of the July 30 order of the state High Court…

A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, on Wednesday, affirmed the final forfeiture of properties worth N1.8billion recovered from a former Executive Director, Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Tuoyo Omatsuli, to the federal government. The spokesperson for the…

Samuel Udo, the police officer investigating the killing of Iniubong Umoren testified on Tuesday in the ongoing trial of the suspected killer, Uduak Akpan, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Mr Akpan is accused of raping the victim, a fresh graduate of the University…

A 33-year-old man, Oyebode Odewale, was on Thursday docked in an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court for allegedly writing RIP on his girlfriend’s picture on social media. The police charged Odewale with two counts of breach of peace and threat to life. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp…

The Hon. President of the National Industrial Court, Hon Justice Benedict Kanyip, Ph.D. has declared the failure and refusal of the Sigma Pension Limited and National Pension Commission to yield to the legitimate request of the retiree Mrs. Rakiya Girei withdrawal of…

Justice Nkeonye Maha of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, admitted to bail in the sum of N5 million each, 13 out of the 15 defendants arraigned over complicity in the invasion of the residence of a Supreme Court…

The criminal case between the Rivers State Government vs. SAIPEM SPA and six others have been adjourned till January 11, 2022 for further hearing. At a resumed sitting before Justice Gbasam of the Rivers State High Court, Chief Godwin Obla SAN, D. G.…

THE National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola and the Nigerian Correctional Service to reinstate a Deputy Controller of Prisons, Mr Kayode Odeyemi, sacked in 2018 for alleged misconduct and incompetence. Justice O. Oyewumi also…