CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

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…

The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has granted bail to a former Central Bank (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele. Justice Rahman Oshodi granted him bail in the sum of N50m with two sureties in like sum. The court also held that the sureties must…

Baring any last-minute change, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje; his wife, Professor Hafsat Ganduje; his son, Umar Abdullahi, and six other persons are to be arraigned before a Kano State High Court on April…

A High Court in Lagos State has fixed April 29 for the arraignment of two lawyers and a realtor accused of conspiracy to commit forgery and willful property damage. The lawyers were identified as Ademola Owolabi, the Managing Partner of Ademola Adetokunbo &…

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, remanded an executive of Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan, in the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of his bail application. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order after Gambaryan pleaded not guilty to the money…