After Jailing Man Who Abandoned Lady He Impregnated, Court Slams Stiffer Punishment Over His Attempt To Escape
A 31-year-old Adamawa resident, Mallam Zakaria, will serve nine year’s prison term following his attempted escape from a chief magistrate’s court after the court sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment upon conviction for abandoning a woman he impregnated. The convict, an indigene of Pariya village in the Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa State, was earlier charged with deserting one...
Court Grants Wife’s Request To End 22-Year-Old Marriage After Husband Abandoned Her, Children
Jos Central Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, on Thursday dissolved a 22-year-old marriage between Nuratu Shehu and her estranged husband, Abdulganiyu Olayekan, on grounds of abandonment. Delivering judgment, Justices Ghazali Adam and Hyacenth Dolnanan, granted the request made by Shehu for divorce. Adam said all efforts to reconcile the parties had failed and therefore, ordered Shehu and Olayekan to go...
List Of Media Houses Approved To Cover Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial
The Federal high court, Abuja, has released an official list of media houses/platforms permitted to cover the trial of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Due to the sensitive nature of Kanu’s case and for security reasons, only a handful of media platforms are allowed to enter the court premises to report/monitor proceedings. Kanu will be arraigned at the high court today. In...
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...
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...
#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
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...
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...
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...
Amidst Tight Security, DSS Brings Nnamdi Kanu To Court For Trial
The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been brought to court by officials of the Department of State Security (DSS) for his trial. He was brought into the courtroom amid heavy security with journalists denied access to film or take pictures of him. Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lead counsel to the Kanu confirmed to journalists that...
