A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, be remanded in Kuje prison in Abuja pending the consideration of his bail application. Justice James Omotosho issued the order on Thursday after the court resumed Mamman’s arraignment on money laundering charge which was earlier stepped down by the judge. The former minister pleaded …

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday remanded some loyalists of River State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara for their alleged involvement in the explosion that rocked and razed the state Assembly complex. An explosion had rocked the complex of the state Assembly amid alleged moves by some lawmakers to impeach Fubara last 30th October. Some loyalists of the …

A Federal High Court on Monday ordered that the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Ndifon, charged with alleged sexual harassment be remanded in Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja. Ndifon, who is being prosecuted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) before Justice James Omotosho, however, pleaded not guilty to the four-count …

A magistrate court sitting in Awka, the Anambra State capital, known as the Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Court and presided over by the Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe, has remanded a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Nwaigwe Stephen for allegedly raping and impregnating a teenager(name withheld). The priest was also accused of forcefully taking the victim to Benin City, Edo State, …