Tag: court
Demolition: Court stops Kaduna Govt., KASUPDA
Femi Adi/Kaduna Kaduna High Court has granted an order stopping Kaduna State government or its agencies from demolishing buildings along…
Ladipo Market traders settle rift over demolition
Cyriacus Izuekwe Justice Iyabo Akinkugbe of the Lagos State High Court has struck out an order stopping the demolition of…
3 suspected cult leaders arrested
Cyriacus Izuekwe The police have arrested three men suspected to be leaders of cult groups that have been terrorising residents…
Gay bites off man’s lip over sex
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 27-year old man, Saidi Abubaka, has been arrested and charged with sodomy before Magistrates’ court sitting in…
Bursar in police net for stealing school fees
Bursar in police net for stealing school fees Cyriacus Izukwe A 27-year-old private school bursar has been arrested after she…
I’m not a big time robber- convict
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 23-year old man, Leke Adebowale, who has spent the last four years in and out of the…
“I no longer feel connected to my husband,” says divorce seeking wife
A 29-year-old housewife, Maryam Aliyu, has prayed a Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court, to dissolve her 9-year-old marriage to her…
Boy, 14, remanded for being in possession of generator alternator
An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Ogudu, Lagos State, on Friday ordered that Saminu Garuba , 14, be remanded for allegedly being…
Drama in court as Magistrate preaches forgiveness to Reverend
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The arraignment of three teenage boys at a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Benin on Monday caused a mild…
Electricity supply to court disconnected over N250,000 bill
Cyriacus Izuekwe There was disagreement between electricity workers and court officials after the workers of the Ikeja Electricity company stormed…
Kano court sends 11 to prison for smoking cannabis sativa
Maduabuchi NMmeribeh/Kano Senior Magistrate Ahmed Hassan Fagge at a Kano Senior Magistrate Court in Nomans-Land, Sabon Gari, Kano, northwest Nigeria,…
Why we’re in court against Dogara – APC Legislator
Eromosele Ebhomele A member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives from Lagos State, Jide Jimoh, on Thursday told selected journalists that…
Man, 50, bags 9 years in prison for defiling girl, 11
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A 50-year old man, Nosa Edebiri, has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment by an Oredo Magistrates’ Court…
Tribunal to hear suit challenging Gbajabiamila’s election victory
Henry Ojelu The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ikeja has fixed 27 July for the hearing of the…
Man, 40, beats up 71-year old woman over missing phone
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 40-year old man, Ikechukwu Offor has been arrested and charged before Magistrate’s Court, Ejigbo, for allegedly beating…
Don’t turn court to playground, Judge warns PDP, APC, LP
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Justice Olatunregun Ishola of Federal High Court, sitting in Asaba, Delta state, has warned political parties not to…
Nigeria Police can prosecute all offences, says Court
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division held today that the Nigeria Police Force can prosecute all offences, including those under…
18 suspects in court over failed Burundi coup
Burundi took 18 people suspected of involvement in a failed coup against President Pierre Nkurunziza to the high court, relatives…
Court fails to stop Buhari’s presidential bid
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja A legal plot to stop the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress from contesting the 28 March…
BREAKING: Court bars soldiers from polling stations
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Monday, restrained the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government…
N11bn Scam: Ex-Kogi Gov, Audu beats EFCC official in court
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said on Wednesday that former governor of Kogi state, Abubakar Audu, who it…
JUSUN Strike: Lagos Courts Shut
Henry Ojelu In compliance with the nationwide strike embarked on today by judiciary workers, all High and Magistrates Courts in…
Court Orders Arrest of Estate Agent For Defrauding 120 House Seekers
Henry Ojelu Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of a Lagos High Court in Ikeja today issued a bench warrant against an estate…
Court Refuses To Stop Obanikoro From Lagos Polls
Henry Ojelu An Ikeja High Court on Thursday dismissed an application seeking to restrain a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship…
Court bars DSS, others from Invading APC Data Center
Justice Mohammed Nasir Yenusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos today gave two orders in respect of the case…
Court asked to halt PDP convention
Nnmadi Felix/Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party’s rescheduled national convention may not hold as a chieftain of the party has instituted…
Tambuwal Asks Court To Stop PDP From Removing Him As Speaker
Felix Nnamdi/Abuja Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal and his party, the All Progresives Congress, APC, on…
Truck Driver Diverts N14m Goods
Cyriacus Izuekwe A company truck driver, Wasiu Bello, has been remanded in Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos State, western Nigeria, for…
Jos Court To Hear NFF’s Stay-of-Execution case Wednesday
The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation led by Mr. Amaju Pinnick has filed a Stay of Execution at the…
Court dissolves marriage over husband’s refusal to allow wife work
An Abeokuta Customary court sitting in Ake on Friday dissolved a four-year old marriage between Esther Onakomaya and Seun Onakomaya…