How Boyfriend Sold My N2.3m Worth SUV, Cleared My Bank Account, Lady Tells Abuja Court
A businesswoman, Emem Bassey, on Wednesday told a Chief Magistrates Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, Abuja that her boyfriend, Onokevbagbe Enikioye, allegedly sold her Lexus Jeep worth N2.3 million without her consent. The police charged Enikioye and Sunday Akachukwu with six counts of criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, theft, criminal intimidation, cheating and criminal force and assault. The offence, the police...
Abuja Tailor To Sweep Premises 2 Weeks For Stealing Milo — Court
A Karu Grade I Area Court on Wednesday, ordered a 25-year-old tailor, Yesmin Abdullahi, to sweep the court premises for two weeks for stealing a pack of Milo, chocolate malt beverage. Abdullahi, who resides in Gwarimpa, Abuja, pleaded guilty to criminal trespass and theft and begged for leniency. The judge, Inuwa Maiwada, did not give Adullahi an option to pay the...
No Bail For You, Court Tells Maina
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, refused to grant a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Taskforce Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, bail. Delivering a ruling, Justice Okon Abang, held that Maina’s application for bail lacked merit. Justice Abang said though it was at the court’s discretion to grant bail, the ex-pension reformed boss did not deserve bail after jumping the...
Fake Soldier Who Attacked Lagos Taskforce Team Jailed
Magistrate Oyebimbola Adelakun of the Lagos State Mobile Court has sentenced a fake soldier, Kabiru Mohammed, to six weeks’ imprisonment for assault and impersonation. The 25-year-old was said to have attacked officials of the Lagos State Task Force on Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit after an enforcement exercise. Operatives of the agency were reportedly coming from the operation with over...
Imo North: Ararume Loses Candidacy Contest At Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed two appeals by Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, in which he sought, among others, to be made the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last by-election in Imo North Senatorial District of Imo State. A five-man panel of the court, headed by Justice Amina Augie, in two judgments, affirmed the judgments of the...
Court Sacks Kogi APC Lawmaker
A Federal High Court in Abuja has voided the election of the member of Kogi Assembly, Atule Egbunu, representing Ibaji constituency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In his place, Justice Inyang Ekwo ordered that the candidate of the party that came second in the December 5, 2020 by-election, which produced Egbunu, should be inaugurated in placed...
‘I Only Told Witch Doctor To Tie My Husband Not To Kill Him’, Woman Tells Court
A Customary Court sitting in Mapo in Ibadan, on Thursday dissolved a 15-year-old marriage between a mother of two, Olubunmi Faseyitan, and her husband, Kolawole, over ”witchcraft” suspicion. President of the court, Chief Ademola Odunade, dissolved the marriage after Faseyitan admitted that she asked a witch doctor to ”tie her husband spiritually to milk him dry”. Delivering judgment, Odunade, said:” men...
Igbo Soldier To Face Firing Squad Over Mutiny
The court-martial sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State capital has sentenced an Igbo soldier, Trooper Azunna Maduabuchi to death by firing squad for killing the adjutant of his unit, one Lieutenant Babakaka Ngorgi. Trooper Maduabuchi was arraigned for murder after shooting Lieutenant Ngorgi in July 2020 at close range in Bama Local Government of Borno State for refusing to grant him...
Certificate Forgery: My Victory Triumph of Rule of Law — Obaseki
Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has expressed gratitude to the judiciary over his victory at the Federal High Court in Abuja exonerating of certificate forgery, saying it is a triumph of Rule of Law. The Governor in a statement issued on Saturday shortly after the judgement further stated that it is testament to the fact that truth would prevail...
