The popular Banex Plaza located in Wuse 2, Abuja, was on Friday sealed off on the alleged order of a magistrate court. Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) had gone to
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A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Kano on Friday remanded Deji Adeyanju in prison until February 6, 2019 after taking his plea and concluding that it lacked jurisdiction to hear murder
Justice Ladiran Akintola of Court 9 in the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Friday adjourned the case involving some Muslims parents and students of University of Ibadan
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has said that he had advised President Muhammadu Buhari to release a former National Security Adviser, Col.
Four suspected killers of Delta State University (DELSU) undergraduate, Elozino Ogege have been remanded in prison custody by Chief Magistrate Helen Okonkwo of the Magistrate Court sitting in Asaba. The
The Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Mr Omoyele Sowore, on Wednesday, dragged the Nigeria Election Debate Group (NEDG) to court. Sowore sued the NEDG over the exclusion
President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to two bills in the transport sector. NAN reports that they are the National Transport Commission Bill 2018 and the Federal Roads Authority (Establishment)
An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved the marriage of a woman who claimed that her husband regarded her as performing less in bed than his girlfriends. The
The fundamental human rights suit instituted by Augustine Bright of Oshie in Akinima Community, Ahaoda-West Local government area of Rivers state against the Nigerian Army is now before a Federal
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday adjourned the arraignment of the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, Nnamdi Okonkwo, who was arrested on Friday by operatives of the
A former lecturer with the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele, has pleaded guilty to sexual harassment charge against him. Iyiola was dragged to court for
A former judge of a federal high court, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumobogia, yesterday slumped in court. Justice Ajumogobia, who did not betray any emotion on entering the court in the morning
Four persons have been arraigned at an Ogudu Magistrate Court in Lagos over alleged membership of a secret cult, ‘Eiye’ confraternity. The Prosecutor, Insp. Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that
The federal government Thursday filed a $1.1 billion lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell and Eni in a commercial court in London over a 2011 deal involving Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL)
A Federal Capital Territory FCT High Court, Abuja, has fixed January 14 next year for judgment in a legal tussle on the propriety of nomination of governorship candidate for the
The Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division on Wednesday confirmed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State will not field any candidate during the 2019 general elections when
The Lagos State Police Command has said that having sex in the car is a crime and punishable with a 2-year stay in prison. This is following debates sparked on
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to arraign Nnamdi Okonkwo, Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, and Dauda Lawal, First Bank’s Executive Director, for allegedly helping a former
A 41-year-old trader identified as Risikat Kadiri, has pleaded with a Badagry Customary Court to dissolve her marriage of eleven years to her husband, Muheem Kadiri over infidelity and theft.
Following the spate of kidnappings in the southern senatorial district of Ondo state, legal practitioners, under the aegis of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Owo branch, have accused the Nigeria
