A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to provide the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) Resource Centre access to information relating to the country’s exchange rate subsidy. HEDA obtained the ruling when the court decided on a suit it instituted in 2020 against the apex bank after denying it access to …

An Ondo State Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has ordered the remand of a 14-year-old boy, Marvelous Asefon for allegedly killing his neighbour, Sunday Ogele. It was gathered that the defendant was arrested by the men of the State Police Command for stabbing the deceased to death with a pair of scissors during a scuffle over a …

Three men, Onibonoje Timileyin, Bello Tumise, and Ahmed Olasunkanmi were on Thursday arraigned before an Ado-Ekiti magistrates’ court over alleged forgery. The police prosecutor, Inspector Olumide Bamigbade told the court that the defendants committed the offence on the 11th May at Federal Polytechnic Satellite Campus in Ado-Ekiti. Bamigbade alleged that the defendants conspired among themselves and forged the identity card …

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja will on 19th May hear the suit filed by the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) seeking to compel the Federal Government to investigate the killing of 11 journalists which occurred between 1998 and 2019. In a statement made available to newsmen, MRA lamented that no one was ever charged or prosecuted for any …

An Osi Magistrate Court, in Akure North council area of Ondo State, has sentenced a monarch, the Ajagun Ode of Ode community, Oba Adewale Sunday Boboye, to 10 years imprisonment for unlawfully demolishing palm trees and food crops. Oba Boboye was earlier charged with malicious damage. The Magistrate, Mrs Bukola Ojo found the traditional ruler guilty of the charges preferred …

A Lagos High Court presided over by Justice Olabisi Akinlade has ordered the removal of Chief Saliu BabatundeDada as Baale of Oke-Odo in the Agbado/Oke –Odo Local Council Development Area of Alimosho Local Government. Justice Akinlade held that Dada, who was installed as the traditional ruler of the community 13 years ago, was not a member of the ruling house …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, arraigned one Wilson Daphey (aka Jefrey Guiseppe) before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on a nine-count charge bordering on obtaining money under pretense and money laundering. Daphey allegedly manipulated and obtained the sum of £120,150 from one Ms Petra Goschenhofer with the assistance of Evans Nnamdi …

A magistrate’s court sitting in Ilorin has remanded the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Ayodele Hospital, Dr. Ayodele Joseph for allegedly raping a patient, who came for treatment in his hospital at Sawmill area, Ilorin, Kwara State. Police report during the court proceeding on Wednesday sated that the defendant sedated the patient – who is a professional nurse – and …

A 21-year-old woman, Cynthia Atuonah was on Monday remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Centre by the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for allegedly defrauding a German of N110 million. Justice Yelim Bogoro ordered the remand of the defendant after she took her plea. The defendant is facing five counts charge on obtaining by false pretences, fraud, and unlawful conversation …

An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun State on Friday ordered the remand of nine suspects for allegedly beating an undergraduate to death. The police prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent Emmanuel Abdullahi told the court that the defendants committed the offence around 8:00 pm on 10th April at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He gave the names of the suspects as: Badiora Timilehin, 22; …