You Can’t Impose Sanction On Twitter, Others, ECOWAS Court Tells FG
The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja has restrained the Federal Government from imposing sanctions or harassing, intimidating, arresting, or prosecuting Twitter. It also restricted the government from carrying out such actions against any other social media service provider, as well as media houses, pending the hearing and determination of a suit challenging the government’s suspension of Twitter operations in...
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: 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In Amended Charge, FG Accuses Nnamdi Kanu Of Involvement In Terrorism As Ifeanyi Uba Heads To Court
The Federal Government has filed an amended seven-count against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The amended charge which was filed by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice on Monday, borders on treasonable felony and the alleged involvement of Kanu in acts of terrorism. Meanwhile, the lawmaker representing...
