The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, arraigned a lawyer, Temidayo Eseyin, for allegedly defrauding the Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, to the tune of N19.3 million. Eseyin, a former member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin Branch, was arraigned before Justice Funsho Lawal of the Kwara State High …

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday fixed 13th July for ruling on the enforcement of fundamental rights’ suit filed by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. Justice Hamza Muazu fixed the date after listening to submissions made by parties in the case. Listed as first to third respondents in the …

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) said on Wednesday that the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to pay it N1 million damages for wrongful denial of access to information. In a statement, the group said the court also directed the CBN to make available all the information it requested in its 22nd May 2020 …

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday fixed 18th October for the arraignment of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah and his firm, Capital Oil and Gas, for allegedly making false claims to the Assets Management Corporation (AMCON). Justice Nicholas Oweibo fixed the date following the Federal Government’s complaint that Ubah had repeatedly been absent to take his plea on the charge. …

The Deputy Comptroller and Officer in charge of Ikoyi Correctional Centre, Julius Ogueri has appealed to Lions Club and other charity organisations to donate a bus to Ikoyi prison to enable it to transport inmates to court on a daily basis. During the recent commissioning of the renovated and equipped Lagos Ikoyi Lions Club Vocational Centre at the Ikoyi correctional …

A Benue State High Court in Makurdi on Friday ruled that Dr. Iyorchia Ayu can no longer hold office as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) having lost membership of the party in his Igyorov council ward of Gboko Local Government Area of the state. A PDP member in the state, Conrad Terhide Utaan dragged Ayu to …

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 …