Environmental Degradation: Court Orders Shell To Pay Ogoni People N45.9bn Fine In 21 Days
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered Shell Petroleum Company to pay the sum of N45.9 billion to the people of Ogoni in Rivers State over offences bordering on environmental degradation. Justice Ahmed Mohammed who gave the order on Wednesday held that the money must be paid within 21 days. The sum is a cost awarded against the company...
#BREAKING: Court Rejects Okorocha’s Application To Stop Confiscation Of Property
A court sitting in Abuja has declined former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha’s, application to restrain the Imo State Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from confiscating his properties. More details soon
Sexual Assault: Court Adjourns Baba Ijesha’s Trial
The trial of embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka aka Baba Ijesha at the Lagos Special Offences Court in Ikeja, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, has been stalled. ABN TV gathered the trial was stalled due to the long vacation of the judges. In a notice seen by ABN TV, the judges will be on vacation till the third week of September. Justice...
Court Bars Abia Assembly From Inviting Ex-Commissioner Obinna Oriaku Over N22.4bn Paris Refund
Abia High Court has barred the State House of Assembly and its Ad-Hoc Committee from inviting or investigating Hon. Obinna Oriaku, Ex-Commissioner of Fiance, over Abia 22.4b Paris Club Refund. Hon. Justice Ory-Ikeorha, the presiding judge, gave the ruling on Wednesday, 4th August, 2022. The document, in which a copy was made available to newsmen on Friday, said; after careful perusal...
Kano Elders Beg Court To Make Process Of Igbo Exit From Nigeria Faster
A Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to compel the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives to hasten the exit of the South-Eastern region out of Nigeria before concluding on-going amendment to the country’s constitution. The request for court order to compel hastening of South East exit from Nigeria formed one of the three prayers...
#BREAKING: Court Frowns At Illegal Detention Of Igboho’s Aides, Grants Them Bail
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the 12 aides of Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Delivering the ruling on the application filed by the 12 applicants before the court, the presiding Judge, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, said it is clear that no charge has been brought against Sunday Igboho’s aides since their arrest. As such,...
PDP Youth Leader Who ‘Insulted’ Buhari, SGF On Facebook Bags One Year Prison Sentence
Chief Magistrate’s Court 4 sitting in Yola, Adamawa State on Monday, sentenced Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Hong Local Government Area, Ikamu Kato, to one year imprisonment for 'insulting' the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari; and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha. The PDP youth leader was remanded in prison custody in a...
#BREAKING: DSS Finally Obeys Court Order, Produces Sunday Igboho’s Aides
The Department of State Services on Monday presented the aides of Sunday Igboho who were arrested on July 1 at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The aides were arrested when DSS officials raided Igboho’s home on July 1, but have sued on grounds that their fundamental human rights were being infringed on. A lawyer to the arrested aides, Pelumi Olajenbesi,...
BREAKING: Dissatisfied By His Acquittal, Kaduna Govt Files Fresh Charges Against El-Zakzaky
The Kaduna State government has filed fresh charges against the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. This comes less than 48 hours after the embattled IMN leader was discharged and acquitted by a Kaduna State high court. Justice Gideon Kurada had on Wednesday discharged and acquitted Elzakzaky and his wife Zeenat, from the eight charges pressed against...
Nnamdi Kanu Drags Nigeria, Kenya To Africa Rights Commission
Special Counsel to the leader of Indeginous People of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor has disclosed that the extraordinary rendition of his client is now a matter before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. Ejimakor said that the defendants in the petition are both Nigeria and Kenya governments, whom Kanu is asking to account for...
