The Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt, on Tuesday set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court sacking 14 House of Assembly candidates of the New Nigeria Peoples Party in
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, also known as IPOB, have levelled the accusation that the Nigerian government and the Department of State Services, also known as DSS, are plotting the
A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba, has stated that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has no legal standing to investigate a government’s budgetary practices.
Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has been found guilty of violating the Money Laundering Act by the Federal High Court in
Dodo Abubakar, a 62-year-old herdsman, has been remanded to a correctional facility by the Ilorin Magistrate’s Court on charges of kidnapping one Abubakar Umoru in the Kaiama local government area
The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has signed into law the bill that guarantees women’s right to inherit and own property in their father’s family. The governor in a statement
Two unemployed men were on Monday docked in an Upper Area Court, Karu, Abuja, for allegedly swindling a trader of N11,000. The police charged Mohammed Abubakar, 48, and Thompson Ola,
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on Thursday put aside the contempt proceedings and all the directives of conviction for contempt against Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman
Joseph Ojo, 64, has revealed the reason he set his five stepchildren ablaze. Ojo, who was paraded at the state headquarters of the Nigeria Police in Akure, Ondo State, confessed
Tope Oladiji, a 39-year-old motorcyclist has been arraigned before the Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo town, headquarters of Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State for allegedly threatening to
An Abuja Federal High Court on Friday has issued an order of interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to the former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. 10 of Ekweremadu’s
The Lagos State Police Command has taken 51-year-old Austin Kanu into custody for allegedly abducting four teenage boys. A statement on Tuesday by the Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has lauded the Federal High Court, Umuahia, presided over by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, for the judgment it delivered against the extraordinary rendition of
The Court of Appeal headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday clarified that the transfer of its 21 Justices to various divisions in the country has nothing to do with the judgment
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has nullified all the primaries conducted by All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state Recall that some aggrieved APC members
The Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Command, Paul Odama, has commended the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Command in checking illegal mining activities in
Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from confiscating six choice properties traced to Zamfara State Governor,
Magistrate Adam Mohammed of an Ilorin Magistrate Court, has ordered the remand of three suspects accused of drugging and raping an 18-year-old girl in Ilorin, Kwara State capital. The suspects,
The Police in Ebonyi State have arrested a 20-year-old mother and her lover for selling their baby boy to a maternity home operator for N500,000. The mother, Ola China, 20,
A man in Adamawa State, Ibrahim Muhammadu, has been arrested by the police allegedly for setting a couple ablaze. The couple, who got married only about two weeks ago, comprised
