Magistrate Farouk Ibrahim-Umar, who did not take the plea of the defendant, ordered the police to return the case file to the State Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.
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Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, held that the Director General of the NYSC and the corps, who were defendants in the suit, were guilty of misrepresentation of material facts.
Justice Fatun Riman of a Federal High Court (FHC), Awka Division, has died.
The Supreme Court has said that the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission to electronically transmit the results of the 2023 presidential election cannot nullify the victory of President Bola Tinubu.
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, declared that the Senate acted illegally in awarding N18.4 billion as compensation to 34 oil producing communities of Obiafu, Soku to Bonny in Rivers over Nigeria NLG Ltd’s acquisition of right of way (ROW).
A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that a farmer, Denen Ande, 43, be remanded in a correction centre for allegedly raping a seven-month pregnant woman.
An Ilorin High Court in Kwara State on Tuesday sentenced two persons to six months imprisonment each over internet fraud-related offences.
An Area Court in Ilorin on Tuesday ordered Emmanuel Jolayemi, 17, to spend three years in a correctional facility over drug abuse.
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday, further adjourned until November 20, for adoption of written addresses, in the trial of a surgeon Anuoluwapo Adepoju, charged with alleged evasion from investigation into a failed plastic surgery.
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence on Tuesday found the medical director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Doctor Olufemi Olaleye guilty of raping his wife’s niece.
A Federal High Court, Abuja has postponed the hearing of a suit filed by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, challenging the orders obtained by the EFCC for final forfeiture of her seized assets.
A Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi has held that the suit filed by former Governor Samuel Ortom and his deputy, Benson Abounu, against Governor Hyacinth Alia and the Benue State Government sought to delimit the governor’s constitutional powers.
Justice O. O. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State has convicted and sentenced one Gabriel Iheohakara to one year imprisonment for a $30,000 crypto investment fraud.
An Upper Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, granted a housewife, Marya Abubakar’s request for divorce from her husband, Misbahudeen Kareem over his inability to provide for her.
An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Tuesday sentenced a 39-year-old man, Ijioma Kalu to 15 months imprisonment for breaking into a house to steal items worth N2 million.
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on Wednesday adjourned till December 11, 2023 the adoption of the final written addresses in the trial of one Marco Antonio Ramirez, an American businessman, for an alleged $1.2 million fraud.
A businessman, Yahaya Mohammed, told an Upper Area Court in Kubwa, FCT, that he will grant his wife, Hauwau Hamza a divorce if she pays him N160, 000.
A Federal High Court, Abuja has disqualified the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva, from contesting the November 11 election in Bayelsa.
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja has convicted and sentenced two of the four defendants alleged to have kidnapped Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, to a 20-year-jail term each.
The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia Friday struck out the petition filed by the PDP Candidate, Chief Okechukwu Ahaiwe, challenging the election of Governor Alex Otti of Labour Party ( LP).