CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

The Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, presided over by Justice Akintayo Aluko, has convicted and sentenced two men, Umar Muhammed and Ibrahim Musa to 12 months imprisonment for breaking into the Federal Government’s warehouse, located at the Nigerian Customs Service, Ikeja, Lagos. Justice…

Eight years after he was first charged to court on an 11-count charge bordering on money laundering and corruption, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, re-arraigned former Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam, on the same charges. The trial of Suswam…

Suspected killers of the former managing director of Water View Hotel, Ilorin, Joy Adanma Joseph, 22, and Favour David, 23, on Wednesday, wept uncontrollably as their trial commenced before the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin. The suspects are standing trial before Justice Haleema…

Yesterday, an Ikeja High Court heard testimony from a witness, Mohammed Buhari, regarding how he dropped money for kidnappers in Ojuelegba, Lagos State. Buhari gave evidence yesterday before Justice Adenike Coker at the ongoing trial of three suspects – Lima Auwal, Abdullah Usman…

A detective with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mahmud Tukur, denied promising the former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, leniency in exchange for indicting the former Minister of Finance and others. The former Accountant General of the Federation had told…

A staff of Zenith Bank, Celestina Appeal, yesterday, disclosed how the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State, Mr. Oladipupo Adebutu, applied for the production of 200,000 prepaid valve cards on February 27, 2023. At the resumed hearing of…

The police in Lagos State on Tuesday arraigned a 37-year-old phone repairer, Abdulhafiz Adewale, for allegedly flogging his four-year-old child with a belt and an electric wire. The defendant, who resides at 4, Alhaji St., Ladega, Ikorodu, Lagos State, is charged with assault…

The suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof Cyril Ndifon, has alleged that the lawyer representing the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, is not registered to practice in Nigeria. He told the Federal High Court,…

A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a 29-year-old bar attendant, Samson Timothy, to eight months imprisonment for stealing his employer’s N372,000. The convict, a resident of Goni-gora in Kaduna, had pleaded guilty to the charge. The Magistrate, Mr Ibrahim Emmanuel, sentenced Timothy…

Four persons including Alliance Hospital, Abuja, have been arraigned by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), for alleged organ harvesting before a Federal High Court sitting in Zuba, Abuja. The four persons, including a staff of the hospital,…