The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is set to arraign a former lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Professor Richard Iyiola Akindele, at the
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arraigned a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (rtd), for an alleged fraud of N21.4 billion. Amosu, alongside Air
Angry protesters have stormed the headquarters of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, demanding the prosecution of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the ruling
The Abuja chapter of the Federal High Court has ordered Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, and others who stood sureties for Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to five bills, including the Extradition (Amendment) Act 2018, Federal Capital Territory Appropriation Act, 2018 and Nigerian Centre For Disease Control And Prevention (Establishment) Act,
Some lawyers in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have reacted to the reported subjection of former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, to ‘unusual’ security checks at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja.
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Enugu South has sentenced one Mr. Silas Istifanus to seven years imprisonment. He was jailed by Magistrate J.O Umezurike, for stealing intermediate armoured cables,
A magistrate court in Ejigbo, Lagos State has sentenced a suspect to 14 hours of community service for stealing three tubers of yam at Ikotun market. The defendant, 26-year-old Okon
A High Court sitting in Makurdi, the Benue State capital has vacated the interim order restraining the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Titus Uba, and 21 other
Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos, on Monday, revoked the bail of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, following his failure to appear in
The Court of Appeal at the weekend explained why it relocated the Osun State governorship election petition tribunal from Osogbo to Abuja. This is coming as the Peoples Democratic Party
The Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal has been relocated from the premises of the High Court, Osogbo, the Osun State capital to the Federal High Court, Apo, Abuja, in the
A Grade 1 Area Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, in Abuja has referred the case of criminal complaint, made against Senator representing Orlu District in Imo State, Hope
The National Director of Mobilisation of the Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO), Johnson Podar has dragged the Plateau State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to court over alleged
The Federal High Court in Lagos State has dismissed series of applications filed by the CEO of Innoson Motors Nigeria, Innocent Chukwuma, seeking to stop his arrest. The applications have
Five civil society organisations, CSOs, have petitioned the National Judicial Council (NJC) calling for investigation into the circumstances surrounding Justice A. T. Badamasi’s granting of an order shielding the governor
The Independent National Electoral Commission’s witnesses on Friday disagreed with the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Governor Kayode Fayemi’s lawyers at the ongoing sitting of the Ekiti State governorship election
The Chief Judge of Ebonyi State, Justice Alloy Nwankwo, at the weekend lamented that the country will be totally doomed, if the Nigerian Judiciary gets corrupt. Justice Nwankwo made this
A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, and presided by Justice E.N Anyadike, has granted an order prohibiting the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, the national chairman of the All Progressives
A housewife, Rukayat Jamiu 27, on Friday, asked a Badagry Customary Court to dissolve her 12-year-old marriage. Rukayat alleged that her husband, Kareem, constantly threatens to kill and cut her
