Colombia’s top administrative court annulled on Thursday the election of the Senate President, Roy Barreras, a key figure in the ambitious reform drive of President Gustavo Petro. The court, known as the Council of State, declared that Barreras did not leave his old political party soon enough to seek re-election with his current party, violating electoral rules. The senator breached …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, said it had secured the final forfeiture of 324 properties recovered from the Kano State Pension Fund Trustees. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja gave the order of final forfeiture while ruling on a motion by the EFCC to that effect. The EFCC had told the judge …

An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Ore, in Odigbo Local Council Area of the state, on Wednesday, stopped the state government and a private company, Sao Agro-Allied Services Limited, from forcefully evicting over 10,000 farmers from its Oluwa Forest Reserve. It also stopped the state government and the firm from grading the farmers’ cocoa farms. The farmers had protested …

The driver of the Lagos State Government staff bus that recently collided with a train, Oluwaseun Osibanjo, was on Tuesday arraigned before an Ikeja High Court. The collision, which occurred on 9th March at the PWD railway crossing in Ikeja, the state capital, left six persons dead and others injured and hospitalised across government hospitals in the state. The bus, …

Investors in Adidas have filed a lawsuit against the company at a United States court over its cancelled partnership with Kanye West, saying it should have been aware he courted controversy. The class-action lawsuit seen by AFP was submitted Friday in US District Court in Oregon, where the German sportswear giant’s US headquarters is located, and argues executives failed to …

Four persons were on Tuesday arraigned before a magistrates’ court sitting in Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly threatening the life of a popular singer, Tiwa Savage, and an attempt to defraud her. The defendants, Eniola Adeniyi, Donatus Osabanumonu, Idorenyi Okon and Michael Rodolphe, were arraigned by the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Annex, Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos, before Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun …

Justice Geraldine Imadegbelo of a Benin High Court, Criminal Division on Thursday remanded a 34-year-old Efoghe Osamudiamen to Oko Correctional Centre for alleged sexual exploitation of a 14-year-old girl in Benin. Imadegbelo remanded the suspect till 10th May when the case would come up for further mention. The remand was a sequel to an exparte motion brought before the court …

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in Maitama, Abuja, yesterday discharged and acquitted the President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Mr. Innocent Bola-Audu and three others, of the allegation of human trafficking. Justice Charles Agbaza cleared Bola-Audu and three others on the ground that the prosecution failed to link the defendants …

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said that the embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party, Barrister Julius Abure remains the authentic leader of the party despite a court ruling. In a statement by its President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, NLC said the judgement was founded on “unfounded/unproven and highly speculative and malicious allegations of corruption, perjury and forgery by elements …

The Chrisland School management has been granted leave by Magistrate Olabisi Fajana to have access to the toxicology samples of tests conducted to enable an independent forensic pathologist’s assessment and evaluation. The order was issued by the Corona inquest on Tuesday, at the Samuel Ilori Court House, Ikeja District Court, Ogba. The magistrate affirmed that the application for an independent …