A Kaduna state high court has remanded Modu Kotoko, a business man, for "duping a car dealer N100 million under false pretence". The zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the state had arraigned Kotoko before the court on Monday on a two-count charge for pretending to be an aide of Atiku Abubakar, former presidential candidate of [...]
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The appeal court has suspended hearing of an appeal by Adams Oshiomhole against the judgment of a federal capital territory (FCT) high court suspending him as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The court had scheduled Monday to hear the matter, but a three-man panel of justices rose at a session today to say a new panel would [...]
Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he is more worried about what he would be remembered for than on how long he spent as chairman of the ruling party. Oshiomhole said this after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa on Thursday. A federal high court in Abuja had ordered his suspension on Wednesday and [...]
A federal capital territory (FCT) high court has suspended Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Danlami Senchi, the judge, gave the order on Wednesday following an application of interlocutory injunction filed by one Oluwale Afolabi seeking the removal of Oshiomhole as APC national chairman. ''Oshiomhole will remain suspended pending the determination of the suit'', the judge held. Senchi [...]
A high court in Akure, Ondo state capital, on Wednesday, sentenced five kidnappers to life imprisonment. Officers of the state police command had arrested the five men after they kidnapped one Unikiere Adodo, a nurse, at Araromi-Obu Rubber Plantation in 2015. The convicts, Tosin Adenikinju, Abiodun Olabowale, Omoniyi Akinsoyinu, Olatuyi Igbekele and Daso Oluwasiji, were arraigned on two counts bordering on conspiracy [...]
A federal high court in Abuja has found Olisa Metuh, a former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), guilty of money laundering. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Metuh on seven counts of money laundering for allegedly receiving N400 million from the office of the national security adviser. The court has pronounced him guilty on all counts of [...]
A federal high court in Abuja has struck out charges of non-declaration of assets filed against Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, by the federal government. The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) filed the suit against the senator in 2018. The panel alleged Ekweremadu refused to declare his assets according to the procedures prescribed for public [...]
The Kaduna state ministry of justice has charged Saidu Ya'u, an alleged fake medical doctor, before the chief magistrate court for certificate forgery and impersonation. In a statement issued by the ministry, Aisha Dikko, attorney-general of the state, said Saidu was remanded at the Kaduna Correctional Facility until March 16. Dikko said the first information report(FIR) indicated that Saidu has been working [...]
A federal high court in Calabar, Cross River state, has granted Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch, bail in the sum of N10million. The journalist had spent 174 days in detention before he was granted bail. He was first arraigned on August 22, 2019 after he published a story on how Ben Ayade, governor of Cross River, allegedly approved and diverted N500 million [...]
Mike Ozekhome, counsel to Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation (AGF), says his client has been taken to the Federal Medical Centre in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Adoke has been in detention despite meeting bail conditions granted by a federal capital territory high court on January 30. A source at the EFCC had told TheCable of the [...]
A federal capital territory (FCT) high court in Bwari has dismissed a suit seeking the removal of Ovie Omo-Agege as deputy senate president. The suit filed by Incorporated Trustees of Patriotic Youth Organisation of Nigeria asked the court to void Omo-Agege's election on the grounds that he submitted false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The NGO alleged that the [...]
The National Examination Council (NECO) says the certificate Ifeanyi Ubah, senator representing Anambra south, presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is genuine. A federal capital territory (FCT) high court had sacked Ubah, a member of Young Progressive Party (YPP), as senator on that grounds that he submitted a forged NECO certificate to INEC. The court asked the electoral commission to [...]
A federal capital territory (FCT) high court has found Maryam Sanda, who is accused of killing Bilyamin Mohammed Bello, her husband, guilty. The court sentenced her to death by hanging. Sanda stood trial on a two-count charge of culpable homicide. Bello, nephew of Haliru Mohammed Bello, a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was killed in November, 2017. Sanda was said [...]
A federal high court in Yola, Adamawa state, has sentenced Ibrahim Aku, accountant of the Church of Brethren in Nigeria, to 18 years in prison for fraud. Nathan Musa, the judge, gave the order while ruling on a six-count charge filed against the accused, on Monday. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had accused Aku of defrauding the church of N15.5 [...]
Taiwo Taiwo, a judge of the federal high court in Abuja, has ordered the final forfeiture of N131 million stolen from the ministry of power. Delivering the ruling on Wednesday, Taiwo also ordered the final forfeiture of some properties acquired through the fund illegally taken from the ministry by seven persons and two firms. The affected persons are Bilikisu Fatolu, Fatolu Gbolahan, [...]
A magistrate court in Ogba, Lagos, has sentenced an Air Peace flight passenger to two weeks in prison for smoking on board. The court gave the ruling on Wednesday, but with an option of N200,000 fine. Adewale Oyebade, a flight attendant, caught the passenger smoking a cigarette while carrying out safety checks during the flight. The incident took place on Air Peace flight [...]
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