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; …

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, …