CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

The Economic and Financial Crimes, on Wednesday, arraigned Lagos-based socialite,  Pascal Okechukwu, alias Cubana Chief Priest, for alleged abuse of the naira note. Cubana Chief Priest, who was arraigned before Justice Kehinde Ogundare of the Federal High Court in Lagos, however, pleaded not…

A Mobile Court sitting in the Oshodi area of Lagos has sentenced 13 individuals to nine months imprisonment for disturbing the peace and for unlawful conversion of government property. This was disclosed by the state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab,…

The trial of an undergraduate student, Chidinma Ojukwu, for the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, continued on Tuesday at the Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island with the testimony of…

THE adoption of written addresses in the trial of Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate, Lagos, Frederick Nwajagu, charged with terrorism offences, was on Tuesday stalled due to the absence of his counsel. Nwajagu is standing trial before a Lagos High Court, at the…

Emir, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun has been remanded in Ile-Ife Custodial facility since he was first arraigned on February 1, 2024. He is facing a 10-count of Terrorism and Murder. He was alleged to have killed some members of…

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Prince Lateef Fagbemi SAN has asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to hands off in the terrorism trial of five loyalists of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. The AGF said that he would take over…

Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), has prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja to quash the sexual harassment charge against him. Ndifon, who told Justice James Omotosho in a further affidavit filed by his lawyer,…

A Lagos coroner has ruled that the 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Master Sylvester Oromoni, who died in November 2021 under controversial circumstances suffered “avoidable excruciating pain” due to parental and medical negligence. The coroner, Mikhail Kadiri, revealed this while delivering…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday arraigned Alaba Alakija and Oyinkansola Alakija before an Ikeja Special Offences Court for alleged property fraud. The EFCC arraigned the defendants before Justice Mojisola Dada on a two-count charge of conspiracy and using false…

The absence of Chief Magistrate Iyanna Emmanuel of a Wuse Zone 6 Chief Magistrate Court has stalled the ruling on the bail application of a blogger, Mr. Chizorom Harrison Ofoegbu, popularly known as Ijele Speaks, who has been in detention for more…