The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has dismissed as baseless reports that the suspended Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT) commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari has been attacked by fellow inmates at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja. At the resuming hearing of his trial for alleged drug trafficking at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, …

A Federal High Court has ruled against the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Cross River Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade and his deputy, Dr Ivara Esu be removed from their positions for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ayade and his deputy, who were elected on the platform of the PDP, jumped ship to the APC last …

A Federal High Court in Calabar has dismissed the terrorism, treasonable felony, and cybercrime charges against an online newspaper publisher, Agba Jalingo. Reprieve for the publisher of CrossRiverWatch came over two-and-a-half years after he was arrested in August 2019. In Calabar on Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu followed the cue of the Cross River State Government, which withdrew the charges against …