Tag: court
Court vacates bench warrant against Akwa-Ibom officials
Justice Mohammed Aikawa presiding over a Federal High Court in Lagos has vacated the Bench warrant issued against three officials…
Court holds woman in contempt for disobeying order
Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Friday held a woman, Shakirat Akande, in…
Court slams 10 years imprisonment on businessman over N1.1m fraud
The Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, secured the conviction of one Suberu…
Court adjourns forfeiture suit against Patience Jonathan to May 24
A Federal High Court Lagos, Wednesday, adjourned until May 24, a suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
Court sentences woman to death for killing neighbour during fight
An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday sentenced a 36-year-old woman, Stella Gilbert, to death for stabbing her neighbour, Mrs Stella…
Court dismisses suit challenging Onnoghen’s trial in CCT
The National Industrial Court, Abuja, has dismissed the suit opposing the trial of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN),-Justice Walter…
Senator Adeleke charged with certificate forgery
The Police have filed fresh charges against Senator Ademola Adeleke, as he was arraigned before a Magistrate Court in Mpape,…
Court okays Adeleke’s travel to US on health ground
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday gave permission to Senator Ademola Adeleke, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic…
We can’t stop Buhari from swearing-in Tanko as new CJN – Court
The Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from swearing-in acting Chief of Justice of…
$6.3m fraud: Access Bank MD absent in Court
The arraignment of the Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, Mr Herbert Nwigwe and eight others by the Special Fraud…
Court arraigns sales reps for allegedly stealing N7.1m
Two sales persons Olanike Lawal and Risikat Mayegun, were on Thursday arraigned in an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court for…
Court fixes June 11 for trial of Dasuki, others in N19.4b arms scandal
The FCT High Court sitting in the Maitama area of Abuja has fixed June 11. 2019 for the trial to…
Man in court for allegedly stealing items worth N51, 000
A 25-year-old man, Umaru Kabiru, on Tuesday appeared before an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly stealing items…
Police drags 9 suspected Cultists to court
The Police at the Langbasa Division, Langbasa, Ajah, Lagos have arrested nine suspected members of a secret cult confraternity and…
Court sacks Sen. Ogbuoji, orders fresh poll in Ebonyi south
A Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki has sacked Sen. Sonni Ogbuoji, representing Ebonyi South Senatorial District from office. The…
Court sentences ex-convict to 12 months in prison for stealing
A Dutse Grade I Area Court, Abuja on Thursday sentenced an ex-convict Usman Abdullahi, 22, to 12 months in prison…
Court orders DSS to produce Dasuki on May 24
Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of an FCT High Court, Maitama on Tuesday, issued a production warrant to the Director General, Department…
EFCC arrests Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia after court strikes out corruption charges
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, a dismissed judge of the Federal High Court,…
Court strikes out suit challenging election of Anglican Bishop
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has struck out a suit filed by 10 prominent members…
Court remands man, 42, for allegedly defiling a minor
An Ikorodu Magistrate Court, in Lagos State, on Tuesday ordered that an unemployed man, Abayomi Adebayo, who allegedly defiled a…
Judge orders police to produce Jay-Jay Okocha in Court
A Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere, Lagos, South west Nigeria on Monday renewed a bench warrant for the arrest…
No court stopped us from working, NBBF boss Kida says
Factional President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Musa Kida, says there is no court injunction restraining him and his…
Court orders forfeiture of properties linked to Alison-Madueke to FG
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office has secured the interim forfeiture of property linked to a…
Court hears oral evidence in $8.4m forfeiture suit against Patience Jonathan
A Federal High Court Lagos, Friday, took oral evidences in a suit seeking final forfeiture of about 8.4 million dollars,…
Court to Saraki, Dogara: You have 5 days to respond to suit on your defection
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday, gave Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker, House of Representstives, Yakubu Dogara and 52…
Court suspends judgment in suit to sack Saraki, Melaye, others for defection
The Federal High Court, Abuja has suspended delivery of judgment in a suit filed by an advocacy group, Legal Defence…
You can’t suspend Ikorodu NBA Chairman – Court
An Ikeja High Court has granted an injunction restraining the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) from suspending Mr Bayo Akinlade, the…
Court didn’t nullify the sale of 9mobile
GSM telecommunications service provider, 9mobile, on Thursday said that the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja did not nullify the…
He disrespects my parents, wife tells court, wants divorce
A 37-year-old housewife, Oluwatosin Olalere, prayed an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, to dissolve her 17-year-old marriage to Kamorudee, over his lack…
Kolade Johnson: Dismissed killer-cop arraigned in court
The dismissed Police officer, Inspector Ogunyemi Olalekan, who allegedly shot dead Kolade Johnson at Onipetesi area of Agege, Lagos, Southwest…