CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has held that the arrest warrant against Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu, a former Manager to gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo, is still subsisting. Justice Alexander Owoeye made this known at the resumption of proceedings in the matter on Monday. In…

Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court Abuja has discharged and acquitted a former Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Kawu Modibbo and Pinnacle Communications Limited. They were being prosecuted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences (ICPC)…

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kaduna on Thursday ordered that a 36-year-old driver, Mustapha Aminu, receive 15 strokes of the cane for assaulting a police officer on duty. The convict, who resides in Ungwan Sanusi, Kaduna, was found guilty of hitting a police…

Justice Chinyere Nwecheonwu of the FCT High Court Kuje has shifted the ruling in the bail application of the former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf, who is facing corruption allegations, to February 27. Justice Nwecheonwu ruled…

A Kano State High Court has fixed April 15, 2025, for the hearing of all pending preliminary objections in the case of alleged bribery and misappropriation involving the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, his wife, Hafsat Umar,…

A 23-year-old salesgirl, Nifemi Friday, who allegedly called a businessman and his wife “ritualists” was on Wednesday remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre by an Eti-Osa Chief Magistrate’s Court, for stealing goods worth N5,200,000 and defamation of character. Magistrate Mrs T. F. Oyaniyi…

Sigma Golf Nigeria Limited, a co-defendant in the trial of Ahmed Kuru, former Managing Director, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, (AMCON) was on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 convicted and sentenced for fraud by Justice R.A. Oshodi of Special Offences Court, sitting in…

The Lagos High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square has fixed March 3 for adoption of final written addresses in the case of a State Bus Rapid Transport, driver Andrew  Ominikoron, who is standing trial for allegedly raping and murdering a 22-year-old…

The Ebonyi State government yesterday discontinued the trial of no fewer than 180 defendants involved in the Effium and Ezza-Effium communal clash who were standing trial at the Abakaliki Magistrates’ Courts. Dr Ben Odoh, the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, in a letter…

A Lagos State Magistrate Court sitting in Tinubu Square on Monday ordered the remand of four men at the correctional centre for allegedly stealing an SUV vehicle valued N12m. The defendants are Wale Odunlami, Salami Isiaka, Tajudeen Yekini, and Nurudeen Ogunmola. They were…