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The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered stay of proceedings of the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on 13 counts of false assets declaration. The order of Justice John Fabiyi-led five-man panel of the apex court followed a concession given by the...

Nigeria operates a form of government that portrays federalism in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Federation consists of 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory, which are constitutionally empowered with the Legislative, Executive and the Judiciary functions within...

An Ile-Ife Customary Court on Thursday dissolved the 15-year-old marriage between Grace Oladejo and her husband, Moshood over constant beating and lack of care. The President of the court, Mr Ganiyu Awoyera, in his judgment, dissolved the marriage, and ordered that there would be no refund...

The Senate President, Dr. Olubukola Saraki, yesterday, approached the Supreme Court, urging it to stop the proceeding of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT before the full blown commencement of the trial on 13-count criminal charge against him by the Federal Government. Saraki, is praying...

The Abia State Governorship Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, the Abia state capital, on Tuesday, affirmed Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, who was candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the April 11 Governorship election in the State as winner of the election. The tribunal dismissed the...

A 42-year-old man, Obasuyi Williams, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail with hard labour, by an Oredo Magistrates’ Court, Edo state, southern Nigeria, for stealing a 5-year-old girl in Benin. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Thomas Ojo, had told the court that the convict committed the crime on 15...

Two Mobile Courts sitting in Benin on Saturday convicted 95 people for various sanitation offences in the state monthly environmental sanitation exercise. Chief Magistrate Ihenyen Aigbediofe convicted 60 people at Kilometre 6, while Magistrate Osamudiamen Afe, convicted 35 people at Oredo...

A mobile court sitting in Benin on Wednesday convicted a motorist, Ayo Okundaye, for attempting to bribe a Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Marshal with N500. The Magistrate, Mr Friday Igbinosa, who found Okundaye guilty of the three-count charge of driving without a number plate, being in...

An Ikeja High Court has jailed three internet fraudsters popularly called ‘Yahoo Yahoo Boys’. They are Ihechi Charles Okeke (alias Owolabi Sunday Sunny), Mayowa Afolabi Adigun and Etop Udeme Smith. They were accused of stealing 1million Naira belonging to one Osunkoya Mary in Lagos, Daily post...

Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki has denied charges of illegal possession of an arms cache including assault rifles and a sub-machine gun found when security agents raided his homes in Abuja, the capital, and the northern city of Sokoto and also pleaded not guilty to money laundering brought against...

The Lagos Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old banker, Daniel Makanjuola, for using a cloned West African Senior School Certificate and Lagos State University’s statement of result to secure employment at the Wema Bank Plc, Marina branch, on the Lagos Island. The police said Makanjuola...

3 Likely Reasons Court Postponed Saraki's suit Indefinitely The Court of Appeal earlier today postponed Saraki's suit without concrete reasons and here are likely excuses the Court adjourned the case. - The withdrawal of Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court from the case on the...

A Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun state on Monday sentenced Joshua Sunday, 23, to six months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to stealing N50,000 from one Olaoye Temitope. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Abimbola, however, gave the convict an option to pay N40, 000 as fine. Sunday, who...