Justice Maureen Onyetenu of the Federal High Court in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, awarded a N200m court judgment against the Nigerian Army for killing a businessman, Noel Chigbu.
Delivering the judgment, the jurist agreed with the applicant’s request that the Nigerian soldiers…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, re-arraigned two former staff of First Marina Trust Ltd., in a Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged Identity theft and Cyber Crime.
The EFCC charged Adeyemi Oluwaseun and Suleiman Yusuf with for counts…
The lawyer representing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the ongoing trial of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, on Tuesday told the court that witnesses coming to testify from the Office of the…
An FCT High Court has nullified the judgement of a Magistrate Court which held that the requirement of fumigation of premises under Section 4 of the Abuja Municipal Area Council Pest Control Bye Law (No. 21) 2012 concerns all establishments within the…
Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos, yesterday ruled that the disputed statements obtained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the trial involving a former Governor of the State, Senator Jonah Jang were not voluntarily given and therefore, cannot…
Two of the defendants charged with the kidnap and murder of five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar have said the first defendant, Abdulmalik Tanko, deceived them.
Tanko, the proprietor of the school attended by the late Hanifa, is the principal suspect in the murder trial.
The…
Eighteen days to the presidential primary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Ayoola Falola, a presidential aspirant has approached the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State to nullify the processes of the primary ahead of the 2023 general election.
Falola…
The Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court in Umuahia which voided the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022.
In a judgment on Wednesday in Abuja, a three-member panel of the court headed…
The Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square yesterday heard the testimony of a police officer, Olusegun Bamidele, who claimed that Chidinma Ojukwu confessed to stabbing the late Usifo Ataga in the neck several times without counting.
Ojukwu, a 300-level, Mass…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, gave an accelerated hearing in a suit seeking to stop the planned May 28 Presidential Primary Election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A presidential aspirant and former Deputy Speaker of the Abia…