Boko Haram Prosecution: Courts to resume sitting
Machineries are in motion to ensure the continuation of courts sitting in kainji, New Bussa for prosecution of Boko Haram cases. Attorney General of the […]
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New Plateau assembly speaker presides sitting, relocates legislative business to old Govt.House
The Plateau State House of Assembly under the leadership of the new Speaker, Yakubu Sanda, sat on Friday and relocated the assembly’s subsequent sittings to […]
Ex-Air Chief, Dikko’s Trial Resumes
The trial of former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Dikko Umar resumed today Monday, September 27, 2021, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the […]
Student,18, jailed for stealing electrical cables
A Jos Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, on Monday sentenced Daniel Isaac, an 18-year-old student, to one year imprisonment for trespass and theft […]
Man prays court to order wife to return to matrimonial home
A 40-year-old businessman, Auwal Musa on Monday prayed a Sharia court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna to order his wife, Hauwa, to return to their […]
Road crashes always fatal if seatbelts are not used -FRSC
The Itori Unit Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, has emphasised the need for motorists and their passengers to always use […]
OML 11: NPDC resumes operation after court judgement in its favour
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has hailed the recent Appeal Court judgment affirming its operatorship of the Oil Mining License 11 (OML 11), describing […]
Court orders mother of 5 to return to matrimonial home
A Shari’a court sitting in Magajin Gari on Friday ordered a mother of five, Binta Musa, to return to her matrimonial home and live with […]
Teenager bags 3 months imprisonment for possession of stolen generator set
A Karu Grade 1 Area court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced an 18-year-old boy, Nemeya Labar to three months in prison for being in […]
Housewife, 5 minors docked for allegedly stealing 15 wrappers
A housewife, Hadiza Alhassan, 31 on Tuesday and five minors on Tuesday appeared in a Shari’a court sitting in Rigasa, Kaduna State for allegedly stealing […]
My husband beats, starves me, divorce seeking Woman tells court
A housewife, Hadiza Jibril, who accused her husband, Aliyu, of beating her has begged a Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State to dissolve […]
Man bags 2 months imprisonment for stealing phone in Mosque
A Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, on Wednesday sentenced a businessman, Aliyu Abubakar, 27, to two months imprisonment for stealing a cell […]
2 traders bag 2 years imprisonment each for stealing phone
An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama. Jos on Friday, sentenced two traders, Ibrahim Musa and Yusuf Aliyu. The police charged Musa and Aliyu […]
Woman prays court to grant her custody of 2 children
A 30-year-old mother, Ismuha Ahmed, on Friday prayed a Shari’a court II sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, to grant her custody of her two male […]
Man prays court recover his grandfather’s house from tenants
A businessman, Ghali Jafaru, on Wednesday prayed a Shari’a court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna to help him recover his grandfather’s house from a tenant, […]
Woman bags 6 months imprisonment for burning ex-husband’s new wife’s house
A Sharia Court sitting in Rigasa, Kaduna on Wednesday sentenced a 34-year-old woman, Zainab Ibrahim to six months imprisonment for burning her former husband’s new […]
Court remands man for allegedly stealing N4,000
A Sharia Court sitting in Kano on Wednesday remanded a20-year-old man, Sani Bala in the correctional centre for allegedly stealing N4,000 from one Akilu Abdullahi. […]
Alleged misconduct: Imo judicial service commission dismisses 1 magistrate
The Imo Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has dismissed Magistrate G.C. Okoli over alleged misconduct.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the notice of the […]
Man jailed 6 months for threatening business partner’s life
A Wuse Zone Six Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced a 44-year-old businessman, Mahmud Suleiman, to six months’ imprisonment for threatening his business […]
Court dismisses case against CBN’s directives on bank charges
The Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State Capital, has dismissed a suit instituted by a legal practitioner, Olumide Babalola, challenging the Central Bank […]
Interrogating Gov. Obiano’s #EndSARS Passions
By Chima Christian Anambra’s Gov. Willie Obiano has a lot of virtues, forthrightness, it appears, is not one of them. His government’s handling of the […]
Global anti-corruption groups ask Buhari to release panel report on Magu
President Mohammadu Buhari has been asked to release the report of the judicial panel on former Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) […]
#ENDSARS: Why proceedings are slow in Enugu Panel-Chairman
The Chairman of the Panel on Police Brutality and Extrajudicial Killing in Enugu State, Justice Kingsley Udeh Rtd. says the slow pace […]
The Sunday Igboho I Knew, By Babafemi Ojudu
It was in 2009. The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin ordered a rerun in a number of polling units in the election between Segun […]
#EndSARS: Oyo judicial panel concludes preliminary analysis of complaints
…to begin public sitting next week Tuesday The 12-man Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to look into […]