Rivers State High Court issues injunction barring 25 lawmakers from claiming membership in the House of Assembly. Defecting from PDP to APC led to legal challenge by Factional Speaker and others. Legal order prevents lawmakers from legislative activities pending resolution of the case...
The Labour Party's leadership dispute took a new turn as the Court of Appeal in Abuja confirmed Julius Abure as the party's Chairman, overturning a prior decision by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court.
The FCT High Court had previously restrained Abure and two others from holding...
The Federal Government is set to arraign former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele on an amended 20-Count Charge at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, this Friday.
Channels Television's Judiciary Correspondent, Shola Soyele, reveals details of the...
Boris Becker was awarded the international tennis hall of fame ring in April Former tennis champion Boris Becker is claiming diplomatic immunity against an attempt to sue him. The three-time Wimbledon winner claims his appointment as a diplomat by the Central African Republic …
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Lagos—A driver, Emmanuel Okorie, who allegedly defiled his neighbour’s 15-year-old sister, has denied the allegation levelled against him by Lagos State Government.
The defendant, who is standing trial on a count charge before a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere yesterday, told the court...
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has docked five persons before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, following their alleged complicity in the fraudulent diversion of about $4 million of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Nigeria.
The defendants...
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A Lagos High Court in Igbosere on Thursday authorized Peter Nielsen, the Danish national accused of killing of his wife, Zainab and their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Petra, to have his blood analyzed for DNA.
Justice Bola Okikiolu-Ighile permitted the sample to be collected by the...
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A driver, Emmanuel Okorie, who allegedely defiled his neighbour’s 15-year-old sister, has denied the allegation leveled against him by the Lagos State Government.
The defendant, who is standing trial before a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, on Wednesday, told Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye: “I...
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Billionaire kidnap suspect, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike also known as Evans, on Friday again asked a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere to quash all the charges filed against him by the Lagos State Government.
Evans said similar charges were pending before a Lagos High Court (Ikeja Division)...
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An Osun High Court sitting in Ikirun, yesterday, sentenced a 25-year-old man, Tajudeen Ganiyu, to death by hanging for killing a four-year-old boy, Tesleem Bakare.
Justice Jide Falola, while delivering judgment, said though the convict during the trial, admitted to be guilty of the murder...
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Security was on Monday beefed up at the National Assembly, Abuja, ahead of expected resumption of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege following Thursday’s Abuja High Court nullification of his suspension by the Senate.
Strengthening of security arrangement at the complex, especially around the Senate...
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The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal on Tuesday reserved judgment in an appeal by embattled Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, where he is challenging the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which sacked him as governor of the state.
An Abuja Federal High Court had on June 27...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, ruled that it had jurisdiction to hear and determine a suit, seeking an order, declaring Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State unqualified to contest the April 11, 2015, state governorship election, which he won.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola held in a...
Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja yesterday, upheld the election of Stella Oduah, as the Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial district.
This followed the decision of Justice Adeniyi Ademola to strike out the action instituted by her opponent, Margery Okadigbo.
Okadigbo had...
Yewande Oyediran, the Ibadan-based lawyer who allegedly killed her husband, Lowo Oyediran in Ibadan on February 2nd, appeared before the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Iyaganku, Oyo state yesterday February 16th.
At the brief hearing of the case, Amos Adewale, the police officer investigating the...
Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the Federal capital Territory (FCT) high court, Abuja, has struck out the application of Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), to stop his trial.
Dasuki had sought three prayers from the court, ultimately to stop his trial. He predicated his prayers...
The Edo Government on Tuesday repealed the Act establishing the Customary Court of Appeal in the state, PM news reports.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who signed the Amendment Bill into law, said that the Customary Court of Appeal had ceased to exist in the state.
He said that with the...
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