Tag: court
71-year-old man rapes 12-year-old girl in Lagos
A Chief Magistrates Court sitting in the Badagry area of Lagos State has remanded a 71-year-old man, Dumashi Sabo, who pleaded guilty to defiling...
Emirship tussle: Bayero’s lawyers withdraw legal services in court
Abddul Muhammed (SAN) and other lawyers of the deposed Emir of Kano, Aminu Bayero, have withdrawn their legal services before the Kano State High...
Edo PDP: Ighodalo’s candidature not affected by court judgement
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the Federal High Court’s judgement on its primaries does not affect the party’s...
Court voids Edo PDP guber primaries
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has invalidated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election that produced Asue Ighodalo as the party’s candidate...
Court orders closure of 2 companies linked to $9.6bn P&ID scam
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, ordered the closure of two companies linked to the $9.6 billion Process...
Court dismisses Nnamdi Kanu’s N1bn suit against FG
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a N1 billion suit filed by the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of...
Court sends farmer to prison for raping 65-year-old woman
A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has remanded a 45-year-old farmer, Gbenga Abajigbin, for raping a 65-year-old woman in the...
N17bn debt: Court hears GTB’s applications against Afex Exchange July 8
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has fixed July 8, 2024, for the hearing of all pending applications in a contempt suit initiated...
Court jails Immigration officer for N800,000 fraud
The Gombe State High Court sitting in Gombe has convicted and sentenced an officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Dabiet Onyemi Gilbert, to...
N80.2bn fraud: Try me in Kogi not Abuja, Yahaya Bello writes...
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has sought the transfer of his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
