The FCT High Court in Gwagwalada on Thursday ordered a student, Istifanus Irmiya, to clean the premises of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for two weeks for internet fraud. Irmiya was docked by the EFCC on a two-count charge, bordering on cheating and impersonation. He pleaded guilty to the charges and begged the court for leniency. Justice Aliyu …

President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) vehemently kicked against the bid by the former Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku to engage ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to give evidence today in his petition challenging the declaration of Tinubu as winner of the 2023 presidential election. In a bid to establish the alleged electoral …

A Yaba Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered the remand of one Linus Sunday for allegedly defiling his seven-year-old step-daughter in the Aguda area of the state. The Lagos State Police Command demanded the remand of the defendant before Magistrate Patrick Nwaka when he was arraigned on one count of defilement. The 50-year-old defendant was accused of committing the offence at …

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced to death the General Overseer of Alter of Solution and Healing Assembly in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state, Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor for killing three persons, including his choir mistress, who he impregnated. The trial judge, Justice S. Benson said that the evidence and confessional statement by Okoroafor …

A Benue State High Court in Makurdi on Friday ruled that Dr. Iyorchia Ayu can no longer hold office as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) having lost membership of the party in his Igyorov council ward of Gboko Local Government Area of the state. A PDP member in the state, Conrad Terhide Utaan dragged Ayu to …

The governorship election petition tribunal in Oyo State has dismissed the petition of the Action Alliance (AA) and its gubernatorial candidate, Babatunde Samson Ajala against Governor Seyi Makinde. The three-man tribunal, led by Justice Ejiro Emudainohwu, delivered the judgement on Friday. Other members of the tribunal who sat in Ibadan, the state capital, are Justices Baraka Wali and I. S. …

A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a father, Suleiman Usman, to life imprisonment for defiling his eight-year-old daughter. Usman was charged to the court by the state government. The state government arraigned Usman on a two-count charge bordering on defilement of his two daughters of eight years and five years at their residence, at 2, …

The Court of Appeal in Kano has suspended the judgement of a Federal High Court that invalidated the primary that produced Mr. Alex Otti and other Labour Party candidates in Abia State. Otti was the governorship candidate of the party in the state and was declared winner of the election. The decision was made on Saturday by Justice Mbaba, who …

A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has filed a libel suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF). In the suit marked CV/6273/2023, Alison-Madueke is accusing the first and second defendants – the EFCC and the AGF – of writing and publishing “false and defamatory reports about her of …

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday slammed a fine of N40 million on a former presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru for filing a suit to stop the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday. The appellate court ordered the politician to pay the fine of N10 million each to President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of …