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 National Industrial Court in Akure has ordered the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), in Ekiti state, to pay the sum of N40 million to Professor Niyi Akingbe, the former Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts, of the institution as compensation over wrongful dismissal. According to the court documents made available to newsmen in Ilorin the judgement in suit …

A Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has sentenced ‘Professor’ Jide Josiah Jisos to six months in prison for impersonation during the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME. The convict was apprehended by officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB, while monitoring the 2019 UTME at Brix Academy in Abuja. The board which confirmed this in a statement, …

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 …

Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court Maitama in Abuja on Thursday adjourned till 15 November to continue the trial of former Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika. Sirika, his daughter Fatima Sirika, his son-in-law Jalal Hamma and a firm, Al-Buraq Global Investment Limited, are facing a six-count bordering on abuse of office and contract fraud brought …

The Rivers State Government on Wednesday appealed the Federal High Court, Abuja’s judgement, which retrained the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from further releasing allocations from the federation account to the state. This came as Governor Siminalayi Fubara celebrated one of the failed attempts to impeach him by the Martin Amaewhule-led House of Assembly, which is loyal to the Minister …

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, …

An Ikeja Special Offences Court has heard how former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele instructed his erstwhile despatch rider, Monday Osasuwa, not to formally acknowledge millions of dollars collected on his behalf from various sources. Osasuwa, who is the first prosecution witness (PW1) in a case the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) filed against Emefiele, said …

The Delta State High Court in Warri has issued an order restraining the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) from implementing its recent policy requiring a minimum admissible age of 16 years for university admissions in the country pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed against the board. In a statement on 16 October, JAMB stated …

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 …