An Abuja Federal High Court has granted former Commander of Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari a two-week bail. The court said the two-week bail was to allow Kyari return home to conclude his mother’s burial rites. The court subsequently set Friday, May 31 for determination of his bail application. Kyari is facing trial for …

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, denied the bail application of a crypto currency firm executive, Tigran Gambaryan. Justice Emeka Nwite held that the bail application is refused as Gambaryan, an executive of Binance Holdings Limited has carefully gone through the application submitted before him and resolved that the defendant is likely to jump bail if granted. Gambaryan, …

Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin has convicted and sentenced two Chinese, Duan Ya Hong and Xiao Yi to one year imprisonment for offences bordering on illegal mining and possession of solid minerals without requisite licences. They were arraigned on Monday alongside their company, Ebuy Concept Limited on a one-count charge bordering on illegal mining …

A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Gwagwalada, Abuja, has convicted a mother of five, Mrs. Ramat Mercy Mba for forging the signature of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, the late Abba Kyari. Justice Ibrahim Mohammad however deferred the sentencing of the convict till Thursday, 16 May 2024 but directed that she should be remanded in Suleja …

The Federal High Court in Abuja has issued a restraining order against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), preventing the party from appointing or nominating any individual to replace Ambassador Umar Damagum as its Acting National Chairman. This injunction remains in effect until the court reaches a decision on a lawsuit filed by two party chieftains. In a ruling delivered by …

A Federal High Court in Onitsha, Anambra State has convicted and sentenced 41 individuals to one-year imprisonment each for internet fraud-related offences. This was disclosed in a statement on the website of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday. According to the statement, the convicts, who were arrested by the Enugu Zonal Command of the EFCC, pleaded guilty …

An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, the state capital, has Governor Ademola Adeleke from presenting the Staff of Office to the new Aree of Iree town, Oba Muritala Oyelakin. The restraining order dated Friday, 3 May, followed a motion ex parte filed by Oba Raphael Oluponle in a suit numbered HOS/20/2024 through his counsel, Abdulrahaman Okunade, where he …

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday, adjourned till 17 May for the continuation of trial in the money laundering suit filed against Binance Holdings Limited and two of its executives, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla. At Thursday’s proceedings, counsel to the defendant, Tony Krukrubo informed the court that he was yet to be served the additional proof …

A 41-year-old mother, Oluwalani Akintola, and her son, Mofeoluwa Olutayo, 23, on Monday, appeared before a Grade ‘A’ Customary Court, Ibadan, for allegedly stealing a patient’s phone. The duo, whose addresses were not provided, are being tried for alleged charges of conspiracy and stealing. The prosecutor, Mr. Philip Amusan told the court that the defendants allegedly committed the offence on …

  A Lagos High Court has ordered Air Peace to answer questions raised by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) on the libel suit filed by the firm on its aircraft operations from Lagos to Anambra State on 12th October 2022. In the suit number: LD/ADR/4833/23 – Air Peace v. Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Air Peace maintains that it adhered …