An Upper Area Court I, Kasuwan Nama in Jos, on Wednesday, sentenced a 43-year-old mason, Augustine Arafan, to three years in prison for raping a seven-year-old girl. The judge, Lawal
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A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture of property worth N1.8 billion belonging to a former Executive Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)
Proceedings in an Ikeja High Court took an unusual dimension on Monday when an excerpt of a sex video tape between a married father of three and his ex-lover was
The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, Kogi State chapter has directed its members to embark on an indefinite strike action over unpaid six months salaries by the state government. In
The Ekiti State Police Command on Sunday revealed that the fate of the student of Ado Grammar School, Ekiti, Kehinde Timilehin who allegedly stabbed his colleague, Favour Mathew to death
The Abuja Division of the National Industrial Court has refused to grant stay of proceeding order in a suit filed by the former acting Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says the President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Paul Usoro (SAN), has a case to answer over alleged N1.4 billion fraud. This
A 28-year-old man, Segun Oguntade was on Thursday sentenced to six months imprisonment by a Magistrates’ court sitting in Ile-Ife, Osun State, for vandalising an electric cable. The convict was
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned four Dangote staff — Adewale Dalmeida, Ibrahim Lawal, Afeez Olaniba and Lukman Adam — before an Ogun State High Court in
A Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra on Thursday, nullified the election of Mr Emeka Ibe as the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Chief
A Rivers state High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has issued a bench warrant on the former leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd. The trial judge,
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has rejected the call by a human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Femi Falana, on the federal
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has lauded efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in extraditing the former minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke,
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Tuesday set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the circumstances that led to the collapse of a seven-storey building at Woji road
Counsel to Ikem Uzoezie, factional Speaker of Anambra Assembly, Chief Emeka Agbapuonwu has said that no fewer than 26 of the 30 members of the Anambra State House of Assembly
At least 50 lawyers, Tuesday, at Otuocha, Anambra East Local Governmennt Area, Anambra state, protested alleged assault and detention of their colleague, Barr. Ivy Arinze, on the order of the
Authorities of the University of Ibadan International School on Tuesday confirmed receipt of court summons over alleged violation of right of some female Muslim students of the school to use
Adekunle Temitope, popularly known as ‘Small Doctor’, has been set free from police custody with a warning not to engage in any violent act for the next one year. A
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on December 6, 2018, arraign a former governor of Kebbi State, Usman Saidu Dakingari before a Federal High Court, Birnin-Kebbi, on a
Alhaji Idris Mamman, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Borno State on Tuesday, filed a case before in a Federal High Court, Maiduguri, seeking the nullification of
