CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Lagos has remanded a blogger, Adewale Ajimisogbe and a former member of Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries (MFM), Ayotunde Richards, over allegations of Cyberbullying the founder of the Church, Dr Daniel Olukoya. Richards…

The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Olukeye Olalekan before Justice Kehinde Ogundare of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, over alleged child pornography, fraudulent impersonation, and sextortion. Olalekan faces an 18-count charge related…

The federal high court sitting in Abuja has denied bail to the leader of the proscribed indigenous people of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Justice Binta Nyako in her ruling held that the court would only grant an accelerated hearing in the matter and…

The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced to life imprisonment one Rasheed Wasiu for having sexual intercourse with his neighbour’s eleven-year-old daughter (name withheld). Justice Rahman Oshodi gave the sentence after the defendant of the charge…

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Monday, upheld the conviction of a watchman, earlier found guilty by the trial court of raping a female student at the Kogi State Polytechnic, Osara Campus in September 2018. A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal led…

A prosecution witness for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ijeoma Maltida, has revealed how the Head of the Stakeholders Unit, Federal Inland Revenue Services, Emmanuella-Eteta Ita, siphoned and diverted large sums of money meant for stakeholders’ assignments to the account of…

A former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bello Mohammed has been re-arraigned before Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in an alleged ₦300M fraud. He was put on a fresh trial alongside his company, Bam Projects and Properties…

A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, has issued an arrest against a 49 year-old self acclaimed property developer, Abiola Afolabi Sarafadeen, for his failure to appear before the court to face his trial on charges of fraud and stealing made against…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt Zonal Command, has arraigned one David Ikeaghichi before Justice S. D. Pam of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, for impersonating an Afghanistan soldier and obtaining money under false pretence. A statement by EFCC…

A notorious telephone snatcher, one Master Promise Happy, has been jailed for three years after being found guilty of telephone snatching. The suspect was convicted on Thursday by the Enugu North Chief Magistrates’ Court of Enugu State. The suspect, a native of Ozonogogo in…