Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has convicted and sentenced an American businessman, Marco Antonio Ramirez to 74 years in prison over his involvement in a $1.2 million US visa scam. Justice Dada handed down the verdict after she found the foreigner guilty of a 16-count charge of defrauding investors of $1.2 million in …

A Shari’a Court in Kaduna on Wednesday ordered the remand of Musa Hussaini for some hours for him to think about how he will provide money for the upkeep of his four children. Earlier, the petitioner, a mother of four, Hajara Sani had prayed to the court to help her recover some of her properties from Hussaini. She told the …

Ten suspects have been remanded in the custody of the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) over their alleged involvement in the illegal importation of firearms and ammunition worth N4 billion. Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja gave the remand order on Monday while adjourning the arraignment of the 10 suspects till 12 …

Embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has filed applications to challenge the forfeiture of his assets to the Federal Government by the court. Since his removal from office, the Federal High Court, through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has obtained a series of court orders, forfeiting Emefiele’s funds and landed assets. The …

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, ordered the officials of the Kuje correctional facility to provide the detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, with a wheelchair. The order followed an outburst from Gambaryan shortly after the court adjourned. Justice Nwite had stepped out of the courtroom for a few minutes before returning to …

In a bid to continually enforce sanitation laws in Kwara State, the state Environmental Sanitation Task Force has convicted and fined several sanitation offenders in the state for violating the law. The State Commissioner for Environment, Nafisat Buge, disclosed this while fielding questions from journalists after the environmental sanitation exercise observed across the state over the weekend, according to a …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has summoned the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Head of the Legal Services Department of the apex bank to appear before it with specific documents on Monday, 2 September, the new date fixed for the continuation of the trial in the money laundering case brought against Binance Holdings Limited …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted applications filed by the police to remand 124 arrested #EndBadGovernance protesters for 60 days pending the conclusion of investigation. Justice Emeka Nwite, in separate rulings on ex-parte motions moved by Ibrahim Mohammed, counsel for the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, granted the interim order to remand the suspects until conclusion of investigation. Justice …

The Supreme Court has affirmed the re-election of Senator Duoye Diri as the Governor of Bayelsa State after dismissing the appeal of Timipre Sylva, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the November 11, 2023 off-cycle election. A five-member panel of the Apex Court headed by Justice Lawal Garba, on Friday affirmed the Court of Appeal decision of July …

The Supreme Court, on Friday, dismissed the appeal of the Social Democratic Party candidate, Muritala Ajaka, in the Kogi State governorship election. Ajaka had challenged the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission after the  11, November 2023 election which produced Usman Ododo of the All Progressives Congress as the winner. A five-member panel of the apex court, in …