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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a diploma holder, Samuel Onochie, for allegedly sexually assaulting a pregnant woman, (name withheld), in Jakande, in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt that the woman, said to be eight-month-old pregnant, was passing...

A Nigerian woman, Edigin Vivian was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment in Tanzania after being found guilty of trafficking drugs worth Sh289 million, The Citizen reports. Justice Aishiel Sumari convicted Vivian of trafficking 797.56 grams of cocaine worth Sh39.8 million, through...

Two men were yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly having anal sex inside a jeep, NAN reports. The accused – Innocent Egbuna, 33, and Jide Ajayi, 21 – are being tried for a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and act of gross indecency. The prosecutor...

A Federal High Court in Lagos will on February 2 deliver judgment in a suit filed by Senator Stella Oduah, seeking to stop her prosecution over the two armoured BMW cars purchased for N255 million during her tenure as Minister for Aviation in 2013. The suit which was initially fixed for...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Ali Abdullahi, a personal assistant to the chairman of the Code of conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, for alleged fraud. Abdullahi is facing a two-count charge for allegedly providing false information to the EFCC during the...

A Federal High Court in Abuja, today, again postponed the trial of a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, who is accused of money laundering. Mr. Dasuki is accused of diverting N19 billion. The counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs, told Justice Husseini Yusuf on Friday that an...

Justice Baba Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja on Thursday adjourned the trial of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), with respect to the charges of alleged diversion of about N32bn, part of fund meant for procurement of arms...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will today arraign the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, before the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja for charges bordering on destruction of evidence, PUNCH reports Like on Tuesday, Mr...

A 70-year-old pastor, Mr Caleb Oluwafisibe, on Tuesday pleaded with an Ojo Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his 41-year -old marriage to his wife, Titilayo, because he was sex starve, Vanguard Metro reports. “Since I married my wife in June 1975, it’s been marriage and separation in two...

Drama in court as the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has been stalled momentarily by dissenting views as to who his legal counsel is. According to The Cable, Vincent Obetta who had represented the IPOB leader since the beginning of his travails, was...

The Federal High Court in Abuja, has adjourned sitting in the case involving the embattled Peoples Democratic Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh till Tuesday, January 19. Metuh had been under the detention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over his...

A FCT court on Monday ordered that a 34-year-old applicant, Anthony Nnakanagu, to be given six strokes of cane for stealing four pieces of toilet tissue valued N200, NAN reports. Nnkanagu, a resident of Airport Road, Abuja, was convicted on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft...

A Court in Abuja, on Thursday jailed a 27-year-old man, Sunday Vincent, to three weeks imprisonment for public nuisance. The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave Vincent an option to pay N3,000 fine and warned him to desist from committing any crimes. The convict, of no fixed...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has described his swearing-in of the substantive Chief Judge of the state, Justice Daisy Wotube Okocha, as a victory for the rule of law and a respect for the rules of succession as outlined by the National Judicial Council, NJC. Justice Okocha is now the...

Obi Nwakanma, a columnist with the vanguard Newspaper has analysed the three-in-one aspect of President Mohammadu Buhari in this op-ed article. Read: The compelling reasons for the current roadshow seem however to be (a) the gloomy revenue picture for the coming years has unnerved the federal...

Ekiti state governor, Ayodele fayose has said that for President Mohammadu Buhari declaring Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu guilty even before trial, Nigerians should be prepared for a return of the 1984 experience in which Buhari’s military tribunal sentenced people to jail terms ranging from 21 to 300...

Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki’s health is bad, his wife has said, pleading for his freedom. Mrs Dasuki created a scene at the headquarters of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) on Tuesday night when she begged top officials of the agency not to allow her...

A federal High Court judge has refused himself from hearing treason charges brought by the government against Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra. Justice Ahmed Mohammed announced the decision on Wednesday in Abuja after Mr. Kanu objected to the case, saying it was...

The Federal Government has filled a fresh six-count charge of treason and managing the affairs of ‘an unlawful society,’ against the embattled leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu was charged before the Federal High Court, Abuja alongside two others, Benjamin...

Lateef Lawal-Akapo, justice of an Ikeja high court on Monday sentenced a court registrar, Oluronke Rosolu, to 10 years imprisonment for defrauding Ishaya Bamaiyi, a former chief of army staff, of $330,000. Rosolu was convicted on all the two counts charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by...