The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign Bello Abdullahi Bodejo before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over allegations bordering on terrorism financing and money laundering to the tune of $2.530 million. According to the Read more…
The Supreme Court said the lawyer’s application fell far below acceptable legal standards and described it as one of the most “thoughtless and irresponsible applications” ever brought before the court. The Supreme Court of Nigeria has ordered a lawyer, S.M. Read more…
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, has lost his bid to vary the bail conditions imposed on him by the Federal High Court, Abuja. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, ruling yesterday, refused El-Rufai’s application to relax the conditions attached to his bail. Read more…
Justice Mohammed Umar has ordered the detention of the presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore at the Kuje Correctional Center in Abuja following the revocation of his bail and the bench warrant for his arrest. Sowore, who Read more…
A witness of the Department of State Services (DSS) in the ongoing trial of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the former governor allegedly admitted during a televised interview that conversations Read more…
Ojukwu Transport Limited (OTL) has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to intervene in what it described as attempts to enforce a court judgment that is currently the subject of an appeal in a protracted dispute over several high-value Read more…
The recent judgment by Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, deregistering the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Accord and others, is as intriguing as it is unsettling. On one side, many Nigerians see a conspiracy. ADC leaders frame the Read more…
An Anambra State High Court sitting in Awka, and presided over by Justice Jude Obiora, on Friday, granted a bail in the sum of N50million and a surety in like sum to an Nnewi-based native doctor, Ikechukwu Ezenagu, popularly known Read more…
Justice Salim Ibrahim gave the order after counsel to the plaintiffs, Gordy Uche, SAN, informed the court that the suit is time-bound. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered an accelerated hearing in a suit filed by Adolphus Read more…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated President Bola Tinubu and mnister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on the inauguration of the newly completed Court of Appeal Complex with state-of-the-art amenities. The ruling party also applauded both Read more…
A London jury has acquitted former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke of all six bribery-related charges after a high-profile corruption trial that lasted several weeks. Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been cleared of all bribery charges brought Read more…
Kenneth Okonkwo, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has rejected Peter Obi’s demand for a retraction and apology over claims relating to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) primary elections. In a response to Obi’s pre-action notice, Okonkwo said Read more…