A Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos on Monday ordered that four men be remanded in police custody for allegedly exhuming the corpse of their landlord and selling his property.
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Deji Adeyanju, Convener of Concerned Nigerians, has been released from Police custody. He was arrested on November 28, 2018 while leading a protest to demand the neutrality of the Police
Parents of students of the University of Ibadan International School have on Monday dragged the school and the University of Ibadan before an Oyo State High Court over the denial
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said the ‘no work, no pay’ policy by the Federal Government, is not applicable to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) has increased a notch following the decision of an aspirant for the Kaduna South Federal Constituency in the 2019 House of Representatives
The Buhari/Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Organization has attacked Senate President Bukola Saraki for criticising the Federal Government’s ‘trader moni’ scheme. Saraki, who is the Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council
The facilitator of Enugu State Justice Reform Team (ESJRT) Chief Mrs. Justina Offia, (SAN), has commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for his unprecedented contributions towards enhancing the status of the judiciary
The Department of State Service and its Director-General, Mr. Yusuf Bichi, have said they cannot be compelled by the Federal High Court in Abuja to prosecute those accused of aiding
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the International Police, INTERPOL. The memorandum is part of a collaboration aimed at tackling corruption
The Ministry of Justice in Benue has transferred the trial of Andrew Ogbuja, who is being accused of raping a minor to death, from a Chief Magistrate’s Court to a
A Federal High Court will on Jan. 15 continue to hear a suit seeking final forfeiture of about $8.4 million and N7.4 billion found in bank accounts linked to a
A non governmental organization, NGO, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Thursday accused the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu of
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court in Kwara on Thursday remanded a man identified as Alade Dayo in Oke-kura prisons for alleged impersonation as a soldier. The Magistrate, Mrs E. K Abu
The Nigeria Police Force has remanded human rights activist and co-convener of ‘our mumu don do’ crusade, Prince Deji Adeyanju in prison for protesting against the security agency. Adeyanju was
Ace human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has stated President Muhammadu Buhari and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders must obey court orders in the interest of political
Lagos High Court in Igbosere yesterday heard that a Nigerian singer, Zainab Nielsen and her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Petra, died violently. A consultant pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa, told the court that
Ikeja Sexual Offence and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos, on Wednesday, sentenced a bricklayer, Edet Imoh, 40, to five years in prison for allegedly raping a commercial sex worker. The
A senior lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari concerning the Electoral Act (amendment) Bill 2018. The rights activist wondered why the bill was
The 11-year-old trial of a former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, for alleged N4.7bn fraud came to a close on Tuesday after the ex-governor testified in his own
Two witnesses who gave evidence in the trial of Murtala Nyako, former Governor of Adamawa State, have died mysteriously. Adekunle Odofin, a detective with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
