Tag: court
EFCC arraigns bankers for selling new naira notes
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned two staff of new generation banks, Ekpe Anayaoha Okoronkwo and Umeonuoha Onyinye, before the Federal...
S’Court slams N5m fine on ex-presidential candidate over suit against Tinubu
The Supreme Court has awarded a N5 million fine against a presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, Ambrose Owuru, for filing a suit...
French court jails 3 rugby players for gang-raping student
A French court has jailed three rugby players formerly with French side Grenoble for 12 to 14 years over the 2017 gang rape of...
Court grants Yahaya Bello N500m bail
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, December 13, 2024, granted the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, bail in...
GTCO, CEO’s blackmail: Court fixes January for bloggers’ trial
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has fixed January 13 and 14, 2025, for the trial of four bloggers charged with alleged...
Woman kills 8-month-old daughter with rat poison
A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in the Kafanchan area of Kaduna State, on Thursday, December 12, 2024, remanded a 30-year-old woman, Mercy Michael, in...
Court jails man for $115,000 internet fraud
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in the Jabi area of Abuja, on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, convicted and sentenced one Praise...
Court jails student, 3 others for internet fraud
The Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital, has sentenced a student, Akanbi Akorede Afeez, to two years imprisonment for internet...
Ekiti court denies Dele Farotimi bail, remands him in prison
A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, refused the bail application of human rights activist and...
Court remands Yahaya Bello in Kuje prison till January 2025
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has remanded the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja...