FCT Minister Tells Court That Yar’Adua’s Daughter, Zainab, Forged Abuja Land Documents
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammad Bello, has told an Abuja High Court that Zainab, the daughter of former President Umaru Yar’Adua, forged several documents to lay claim to a disputed plot of land in Abuja. The minister alleged, yesterday, that there was nothing to show that the former President’s daughter ever applied for land in the FCT...
Separate Me From My Wife Or I Commit Suicide, She Has Made Herself Public Tap, Man Tells Court
A 64-year old retired civil servant, Amos Akinlolu, has told a Grade ‘A’ Customary Court, sitting at Mapo, in Ibadan to put an end to his nearly three-decade old marriage. The man wants the union to his estranged wife, Funmilayo to be annulled because she was an “unrepentant adulterer” Akinlolu told the court that life had not been the same for...
We Can’t Discharge You As Abdulrasheed Maina’s Surety, Court Tells Sen. Ali Ndume
A Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday, dismissed the application filed by Sen. Ali Ndume, seeking an order to discharge him as Abdulrasheed Maina’s surety, after he jumped bail. Justice Okon Abang, in a ruling, held that the application filed by Ndume amounted to an abuse of court process, having filed an appeal before the Court of Appeal, Abuja on...
Man Who Stabbed Two Women To Death In Kogi To Die By Hanging — Court Rules
A High Court in Lokoja on Wednesday sentenced a middle-aged man, Danladi Ichado to death by hanging for stabbing two women to death. Delivering judgment, Justice Nicodemus Awulu, held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt that the convict was presumed to have intended to kill the women based on the weapon he used. The judge held that the...
Ohakim To Appear In Court For Threatening To Release Nude Picture Of Woman
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed Oct. 21 for arraignment of former Imo Governor, Mr Ikedi Ohakim, for allegedly threatening to release nude photos of an Abuja-based woman, Mrs Chinyere Amuchienwa. Justice Taiwo Taiwo ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, to take over the prosecution of Ohakim from the Inspector-General of Police, at the...
Phenomenal People Magazine Publisher, Evelyn Onyilo Mourns Barr. Hauwa Shekarau
The publisher Phenomenal People Magazine, Evelyn Onyilo has expressed sadness over the death of Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA FCT chapter, Barr. Hauwa Shekarau, describing it as a blow on gender rights movement in Nigeria. Onyilo, a former President of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ and founder, Initiative for Women's Accelerated Development in Africa, INWOAD while describing the...
DSS Lawyer Tells Court How Robbers Stole Case File On Igboho’s Aides
The Counsel for the Department of State Service (DSS), Idowu Awo, has told the Federal High Court that the case file relating to the Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement application filed by the aides to Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, was stolen by armed robbers. Mr Awo on Wednesday told Justice Obiora Egwuatu that his colleague who was bringing...
Usifo Ataga: DPP Recommends Chidinma For Murder Trial, Clears Four Others
Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mrs. Olayinka Adeyemi, has cleared Babalola Disu, Abayomi Olutayo, Oluwo Ifeoluwa and other persons, interrogated in connection with the murder of Chief Executive of Super Television, Michael Usifo Ataga. In a legal advice issued on August 20, the DPP recommended Chidinma Ojukwu (22), and her accomplice, Adedapo Quadri, for murder trial. Also to be...
Court Rejects Application Seeking To Stop Abba Kyari’s Arrest, Extradition
The Federal High Court in Abuja, Thursday, refused to grant an ex parte application to restrain the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) from arresting and extraditing suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari. Justice Ahmed Mohammed rejected the application filed by the Incorporated Trustees of Northern Peace Foundation. The foundation, through its legal...
Murder: Super TV CEO’s Family Accuses Lagos Police Of Cover Up, Engages Mike Ozekhome
The family of late Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, have asked a constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, to defend their interest and ensure that justice is served. In their instruction letter to Ozekhome, the family decried the “low level of professionalism” exhibited by the police in the prosecution of the suspected killers of Ataga. This was disclosed in a statement...
