Category: Justice

Lagos Court Jails Man Three Months for Hawking New Naira Notes The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of one Hammed Saka to three months imprisonment for hawking new Naira notes. He was jailed by Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court sitting…

Police Woman In Akwa Ibom Bags 3 Months Sentence For Contempt Uko Okon, Uyo The Akwa Ibom State High Court, Abak Judicial Division, committed a Police Officer, Mrs Juliet Attah, to three months imprisonment on Thursday for disobeying a Court order to produce a tricycle she seized from a tricyclist, Mr Elijah Alphonsus Akpan, in…

Court Gives 18 Years Jail Term To 5 Men For Murder. A Lagos High Court has sentenced five men to 18 years imprisonment for murder. Justice Oyidamola Ogala sentenced Imuriana Muhammed, Ogbole Muhammed, Yahaya Sefiyanu, Haruna Suleiman, and Gambo Dauda Ogah to 18 years following their plea bargain agreement on a five-count amended charge bordering…

Alleged 76bn, $31.5m Fraud: EFCC Presents First Witness Against Ex-AMCON MD, Ahmed Kuru, Four Others in Lagos The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presented its first prosecution witness, PW1, Peter Omokaro, a former Assistant General Manager, Treasury, Union Bank of Nigeria, in the trial of a former Managing Director of Assets Management Corporation of…

Court reserves judgment in Obasa’s suit challenging removal as Lagos Speaker Justice Yetunde Pinheiro of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, has reserved judgment in the suit filed by reinstated Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Obasa, challenging the legality of the January 13, 2025, proceedings that led to his initial removal. The judge reserved judgement after hearing arguments…

Court Restrict Dantata Travel Movement Over Alleged N350M Fraud Trail. Justice Rahman Oshodi of a Special Offences Court Ikeja has refused an application to release the international passport of a 35-year-old woman, Rukayya Saadina Dantata, standing trial over alleged N350 million. The judge, while ruling on her application for a passport to travel on medical…

Court Orders Oba Otudeko to Appear for Arraignment for Alleged N12.3bn Fraud Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, March 17, 2025, ordered Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko to appear in court for his arraignment over an alleged N12.3b fraud brought against him by the Economic and…

AAN Condemns Supreme Court for Upholding Sunday Jackson’s Death Sentence ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has condemned what it termed a travesty of justice in the case of Sunday Jackson, a young farmer and student sentenced to death for defending himself against a violent attacker. In a statement signed by its Country Director, Andrew Mamedu, on Thursday,…

Obasa’s Suit Challenging Impeachment Adjourned till March 17 Justice Yetunde Pinheiro of an Ikeja High Court adjourned the hearing of a suit filed by the reinstated Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, until March 17. Justice Pinheiro fixed the new date following submissions of lawyers representing parties. Obasa challenges the allegations…

Alleged $340,000 Fraud: Court Adjourns Mercy Chinwo’s Ex-Manager’s Case till May 14 Justice A.O. Owoeye of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, has adjourned the alleged $340,000 fraud case involving Ezekiel ThankGod, the former manager of gospel artiste Mercy Chinwo, to May 14, 2025, for a hearing. The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and…