Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja on Thursday sentenced one Laminu Ahmed, 36, to life imprisonment for defiling a seven-year-old girl. The conviction was secured by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi. The trial judge in her judgment held that the prosecutor from the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence unit …

The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Monday, overturned the conviction of the Umar Danladi tribunal, which found a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, guilty of false asset declaration. The appellate court in a judegment, discharged and acquitted Onnoghen from the conviction delivered against him by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The conviction, which was delivered on …

Court returns ‘Auxiliary’ file to CJ for reassignment Justice O. A. Adetujoye of Fiat Court 5, Oyo State High Court, Ring Road, Ibadan has ordered that a case file involving a former Chairman of Disciplinary Committee of the Park Management System (PMS), Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi (better known as Auxiliary) be transferred to the state Chief Judge for reassignment to another …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail of N10 million each to 72 defendants charged with participating in the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests. Justice Obiora Egwuatu stipulated that each defendant must secure two sureties in the same amount. One of the sureties must be a civil servant at grade level 15 or higher, with a verifiable address within the …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed 21 January for ruling on a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arraign and try in absentia former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello for alleged money laundering charge pending against him. In the charge, the EFCC accused Bello, among others, of laundering N80,246,470,088.88 belonging to Kogi State. Justice …

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, barred the Federal Government from releasing further monthly allocations to Rivers State. The court, in the judgement that was delivered by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, specifically restrained the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, from allowing the state to draw funds from the consolidated revenue account. The judgement followed a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/984/24, …

The Appeal Court in Akure, Ondo State, on Tuesday, adjourned for judgment, a case in the murder of a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Timothy Adegoke, at the Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife, Osun. The late Adegoke was a Masters degree student of the university whose death occurred between 5 and 7 November 2021, at the hotel …

Former Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Thursday, failed to respond to a summons for arraignment before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja. This latest case involves allegations of N110 billion fraud. Justice Maryann Anenih had issued the summons on 3 October, and also granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) permission for substituted service of the …

A Chief Magistrate in Ondo State, Olateju Odenusi-Fadeyi, has ordered the remand of a 15-year-old female student of Anglican Grammar School, Arigidi Akoko, for allegedly stabbing her colleague, Habib Salau, aged 17, to death. The magistrate ordered her remanded at the Ondo State Juvenile Home, in Akure, pending advice from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The …

The President of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Comrade Williams Akporeha, on Wednesday, narrated a chilling account before the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja, detailing how he, alongside the union’s Secretary-General, Wale Afolabi, and the newly elected National Chairman of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch, Augustine Egbon, were violently attacked by 20 …