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...
Lawyers Seeking SAN Rank To Pay N1m
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee has opened invitations for lawyers to apply for the 2023 award for the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria at N1m, per applicant. The LPPC, in a notice issued by its Secretary/Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hajo Bello, stated that the purchase of the application which began on January 1, will end on March...
Kuje Prison Attack: We Hid Like Rats When Terrorists Struck, Abba Kyari Tells Court As He Begs For Bail
The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, who is facing drug trafficking charge, on Wednesday, gave an insight into what transpired on the night insurgents attacked the Kuje Correctional Facility in Abuja. The attack, which occure...
Italian Man Who Killed Nigeria’s Ogorchukwu To Spend 24 Years In Prison
Filippo Ferlazzo, the Italian who killed an Italy-based Nigerian man, Alika Ogorchukwu, in July 2022 has bagged a 24-year jail term. The Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement signed by NiDCOM spokesperson, Gabriel Odu, commended the Nigerian Mission in Rome, for following through with the case and other...
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...
Man Who Sexually Assaulted 3 Children Gets Life Imprisonment
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced a man, Ademola Oladimeji to four life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his three children. The children were aged five, seven and nine. Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye, held that the evidence of the respective prosecution witnesses were believable and truthful. Soladoye, however, said that their evidence established the offence of sexual...
Ondo Widow Who Brutalised House Help With Razor Blade Over Meat Bags Jail Sentence
A widow and 36-year-old mother of four, Mrs Opeyemi Omoyemi, has been sentenced to four and half years in prison for brutalizing and inflicting body injuries on his 12-year-old house helped Joel Sunday for stealing a piece of meat. A Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital sentenced Owoyemi following her arraignment on a five-count charge. She was sentenced...
Immigration Officer Bags Seven Years Imprisonment Over Passport Fraud
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo has sentenced an Immigration officer, Quadri Adeyinka to seven years over passport fraud. Adeyinka was arraigned before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie on four counts bordering on gratification, conferment of corrupt advantage, and cheating contrary to extant provisions of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and the Penal Code Act. Adeyinka specifically...
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...
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...
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