Rivers: Court to rule on LP suit against pro-Wike lawmakers January 2025
The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has scheduled January 21, 2025, to rule on a suit filed by Labour…
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Court Orders IGP, Police Service Commission to pay Police Constabularies 4 years salary each.
The Inspector General of Police IGP and the Nigeria Police Service Commission have been ordered to pay Police Constabularies about…
Kaduna court orders release of Cecilia Bakam’s body for burial
The Customary Court of Appeal, Kaduna, has fixed January 15, 2025, for judgment on a case alleged to be a…
Magistrate orders man to sweep court premises for stealing floor tiles
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered an unemployed man, Vincent Danladi, to sweep the court premises for three…
Kano Emirate Council tussle: Minister warns Kwankwaso against contempt of court
The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Yusif Abdullahi Ata, has warned the 2023 presidential candidate of the…
36-year-old man bags life imprisonment for raping 7-year-old
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, AGF, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, has secured the conviction of one…
Nigerian govt commits to enforcing court judgements in Niger Delta
The Federal Government says it is committed to upholding compensations awarded by court judgements relevant to environmental and social justice…
Rivers Crisis: Court reserves judgement on appeals
The Special Court of Appeal Panel established to adjudicate political cases in Rivers State has reserved judgment in the consolidated…
Court strikes out Ornguga’s suit against Benue APC
A Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi on Wednesday struck out a suit instituted by former State Organizing secretary…
Court adjourns Falanas’ suit against VDM to January 2025
A Lagos High Court has adjourned the hearing of a defamation suit against social media influencer, Vincent Otse, aka VeryDarkMan,…
Court remands 4 over alleged armed robbery, murder
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Thursday ordered the remand of four persons in a correctional facility for alleged armed…
Ugandan court convicts TikToker for insulting President Museveni
A Ugandan court has convicted a 21-year-old Tiktoker for calling for the public flogging of President Yoweri Museveni on TikTok.…
Yola court remands 3 for burglary, theft of N1m motorcycle
A court in Yola, Adamawa State, has remanded three persons in prison custody for allegedly breaking into a house and…
Lagos sexagenarian bags life imprisonment for defiling 11-year-old girl
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a 64-year-old man, Lateef Durojaiye, to life imprisonment for defiling…
Two brothers remanded for alleged culpable homicide, armed robbery
A Kaduna High Court on Tuesday ordered that two brothers be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged culpable homicide…
Court nullifies Ebonyi PDP congresses
A Federal High court sitting in Abakaliki on Monday nullified all the congresses conducted by the Peoples Democratic party, PDP,…
Alleged arrest plot: EFCC tells court to dismiss Sanwo-Olu’s suit
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged a Federal High Court in Abuja not to grant the reliefs…
Court case won’t disrupt LG election – ZASIEC assures Zamfara residents
The Zamfara State Independent Electoral Commission (ZASIEC) has said the court case filed by the State All Progressives Congress (APC)…
Court dismisses criminal summons against Edo governor-elect Okpebholo
An Abuja High Court on Friday dismissed a criminal summons issued on September 12 by a magistrate’s court against Senator…
FCT Court begs for renovation of complex burnt during EndSARS protest
The FCT Customary Court in Dutse, Abuja, has appealed to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to facilitate the renovation of…
Enugu Court remands woman for using pestle on stepson, inflicting bodily harm
An Enugu State magistrate court has remanded a woman, Mrs. Ada Ogbogu for allegedly breaking her three-year old stepson’s bone…
Court bars CBN, Accountant-General from withholding Kano LG funds
A Kano state high court has restrained the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the Accountant-General of Federation, AGF, and the…
EndBadGovernanceInNigeria: Protesters moved out as court strikes out suit (VIDEO)
The Nigerian government has moved EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters from the Abuja Federal High Court premises. This followed Justice Obiora Egwuatu’s decision…
Cleric bags life imprisonment for defiling minor
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced an Islamic cleric, Alani Rafiu, to life imprisonment for…
Alleged N1.3bn Fraud: Court orders arrest of Dana Air MD, Ranesh
A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an arrest warrant for the Managing Director of Dana Air, Mr Hathiramani…
Edo: Court summons Omobayo over refusal to vacate Deputy gov’s position
The embattled Deputy Governor of Edo State, Godwin Omobayo, has been ordered to appear in person before an Abuja Federal…
UTME 2019: Court convicts ‘Professor Jisos’ over impersonation
A Chief Magistrate Court, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has jailed one ‘Professor’ Jide Josiah Jisos six months over impersonation during…
BREAKING: EndBadGovernance: Court grants 67 arraigned minors N10m bail each
An Abuja Federal High Court has granted bail in the sum of N10 million each to 67 minors who are…
Court grants VeryDarkMan bail with stringent conditions
Following his arraignment for impersonation on Friday, social media critic, Martins Otse aka VeryDarkMan has been granted bail in the…
LG poll: Court voids administrative charges imposed by OGSIEC
An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta has nullified the administrative charges imposed on candidates by the State Independent…
Delta: Court remands man in prison for allegedly defiling girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter
A Delta State High Court sitting in Otu-Jeremi in Ughelli South Local Government Area has ordered the remand of Mr…
BREAKING: Court stops CBN from releasing allocation to Rivers State
The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, from further releasing monthly financial allocations…
Wife seeks dissolution of 1-year-old marriage over lack of love
A housewife, Kafilat AbdulLateef, on Tuesday asked the Area Court, Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, Kwara State, to dissolve her one-year-old marriage to…
Court throws out suit seeking to postpone Ogun LG poll
The Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta has dismissed a suit by 16 political parties in the state, seeking…
Emefiele: He instructed me against keeping records of money collected for him – Witness tells court
A dispatch rider, Monday Osazuwa, has tendered another evidence before a Lagos High court sitting in Ikeja that the former…
Our order stoping PDP’s congresses in Abia still subsists – Court rules
Abia State High Court, Bende Judicial Division, presided over by Justice C.U. Okoroafor, has told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
Court reserves judgement in suit seeking suspension of federal allocations to Rivers State
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, reserved judgement in a suit seeking to stop the release of federal…
Four arraigned for stealing tiles worth N200,000
The Police on Friday arraigned four persons before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan for allegedly stealing tiles worth N200,000.…
Alleged rape: Court discharges, acquits UNIBEN lecturer
An Edo State High Court sitting in Benin has discharged and acquitted a lecturer with the University of Benin, UBTH,…
Court remands SS3 student in Ondo for allegedly killing colleague
A Chief Magistrate in Ondo State, Olateju Odenusi-Fadeyi, has remanded a 15-year-old female student of Anglican Grammar School, Arigidi Akoko,…
Canadian woman bags 11 years’ jail term for importing cannabis into Nigeria
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a 41-year-old Canadian woman, Adrienne Munju, to 11 years…
Alleged Bribery: Court fixes date to hear pending applications against Ganduje, 7 others
A Kano State High Court on Wednesday, fixed November 20, for hearing of pending applications in the ongoing case of…
Court orders EFCC, DSS to arrest anyone attempting to sell late Justice Bello’s properties
Justice Mohammed Madugu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Bwari, Abuja, has issued an interim injunction ordering the arrest,…
Court refuses to bar PDP from postponing October 24 NEC meeting in Abuja
The Federal High Court, Gusau division, Zamfara State, has refused to stop the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from postponing its…
Yola court jails woman for abusing stepchildren
The Chief Magistrate Court II sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, has convicted and sentenced a housewife, Fatima Abubakar, to one…
Osun: APC drags Adeleke, OSSIEC to court, seeks nullification of planned LG polls
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Osun State chapter has dragged Governor Ademola Adeleke and the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission,…
IPOB: Court threatens to jail DSS DG for blocking Nnamdi Kanu from lawyers
The Abuja Federal High Court on Friday threatened to jail the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS,…
SDP condemns Kogi gov’t’s planned LG election, despite flooding, court order
The National Working Committee of the Social Democratic Party, SDP has condemned the Kogi State Government for going ahead with…
Realtor docked over alleged N19m fraud
A 43-year-old Realtor, Olumade Owoseni, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, in a N19 million alleged fraud case.…
Man arraigned over alleged theft, breach of peace
The Police on Friday arraigned a 32-year-old man, Ojo Oluwaseun, before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged stealing of…