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Ekiti 2022: Appeal Court President sets up Tribunal to hear petitions
adminJun 16, 2022
The President of Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Bolna’an Dongban-Mensem, yesterday, set up the Ekiti State governorship election tribunal to hear and...
Court sentences man to death by hanging in Ekiti for armed robbery
adminJun 16, 2022
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced one Akinleye Seyi, 32 to death by hanging for armed robbery....
Court remands man for allegedly stabbing girlfriend multiple times
adminJun 16, 2022
A Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos on Thursday ordered that a man, Chinonso Ejiogu, who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend multiple times...
Seven arraigned for beating AEDC staff in Kogi
adminJun 15, 2022
Seven persons have been arraigned before a Magistrate Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, for allegedly beating an employee of the Abuja Electricity...
Court orders corps member to clean Winners Church for 6 months for fraud
adminJun 15, 2022
An FCT High Court in Kubwa, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered a 30-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corps, Chibuike Omemgboji, to clean the...
Court sentences ‘Mama Boko Haram’, two others to prison over N71.4m fraud
adminJun 15, 2022
The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of Aisha Alkali...
Court sentences man to life imprisonment for defiling JSS 3 student in Ekiti
adminJun 14, 2022
An Ado-Ekiti High Court on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man, Shola Oguntuase to life imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old JSS 3...
Sacked EKSU workers lament as management disobeys court order reinstating them
adminJun 14, 2022
Affected workers who were illegally sacked in 2019 by the management of the Ekiti State University (EKSU) have not been reinstated by the...
NDLEA cocaine burst: Two Abba Kyari co-defendants jailed
adminJun 14, 2022
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, convicted and sentenced two co-defendants in a suit filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) against...
Two men arraigned for allegedly assaulting police officer
adminJun 10, 2022
Two men who allegedly assaulted a police officer on Friday appeared in an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court in Isabo, Ogun State. The police charged Alexander...
I stake my customer’s money on bet, man tells court
adminJun 10, 2022
One Olatunbosun Sowumi, 32, on Friday told a Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, how he used N370,000 customer’s money to place a bet....
Two men allegedly impregnate, procure abortion for 13-year-old girl
adminJun 10, 2022
Magistrate Ejiro Kubeinje of the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Thursday, has ordered the remand of one Sakiru Oladosu, 50, and Tola Rasaq, 40, for...
BREAKING: Killers of Fasoranti’s daughter sentenced to death
adminJun 10, 2022
Three persons involved in the killing of Olufunke Olakuri, daughter of Afenifere Leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, have been sentenced to death by hanging. They...
How my family friend raped, impregnated me – Female student tells court
adminJun 10, 2022
An 18-year-old medicine undergraduate, on Friday, told an FCT High Court in Kubwa that her 32-year-old family friend, Anthony Okoye, raped...
Sharia Court sentences man to jail, 30 strokes for stealing fan from mosque
adminJun 10, 2022
A Bauchi Shariah court has sentenced a 25-year-old man, Salisu Aliyu to 15 months imprisonment for stealing a fan from a mosque at Dass Park area of...
Court dissolves marriage on grounds of cruelty by wife
adminJun 09, 2022
An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State, on Thursday, dissolved marriage between Mr Lambert and Mrs Joy Onwuka on grounds of cruelty and lack of care on...
Court sentences man to 19yrs for child abduction in Port Harcourt
adminJun 08, 2022
A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced one Decene Akinmetonibi to 19 years in prison on 3 counts of conspiracy, unlawful...
APC convention: Court of Appeal stops National Assembly from imposing statutory delegates
adminJun 07, 2022
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday restrained the National Assembly from imposing statutory delegates at the All Progressives Congress (APC) convention....
Man drags actress to court for allegedly refusing to marry him
adminJun 06, 2022
A 48-year-old civil servant, Bala Musa, on Monday, dragged a popular Kannywood actress, Hadiza Gabon, before a Shari’a Court in Kaduna for allegedly...
Land Dispute: Osun community raises alarm over Army’s disregard for court order
adminJun 05, 2022
Owners of landed properties in the Kelebe area of Olorunda local government area of Osun have raised an alarm over the alleged refusal of the Ministry of Defence...