•As court directs IGP to arrest Diezani to face her charges Two officials of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment each for receiving N362 million bribe from former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs Diezani Alison-Maduekwe, during 2015 general election. The convicts, Ibrahim Mohammed and Sahabo Iya-Hamman, were sentenced by a…
A 20-year-old woman has allegedly been stabbed to death by a middle-aged woman who accused her of sleeping with her husband. A Kenyan court has since ordered that the suspect, Sarafina Wanjiku, be detained for 14 days after it accused her of killing one Njoki, 20, on Thursday, November 28, in her house in Githirioni…
The Eleruwa of Eruwa, Oba Samuel Adegbola has been sacked by Apex court of Nigeria twenty-one years after he ascended the throne of his forebears. The Supreme Court sacked him this morning following an Oyo State High Court judgment that removed him on January 26, 2011 but the monarch appealed the judgement. The sacked monarch…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed 14 counts of fraud against Internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha, before the Federal High Court in Lagos, The PUNCH reports. In a copy of the charge sheet sighted by our correspondent on Friday, Mompha, among other things, was accused of procuring Ismalob Global Investment Limited to…
A dismissed police inspector, Ogunyemi Olalekan, was on Tuesday at an Ikeja High Court remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons after his arraignment for the alleged murder of Kolade Johnson, a 35-year-old man at a viewing center in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Olalekan, 45, during his arraignment pleaded not guilty to…
Uduak Nseobot, a councillor, in Ibiono Ibom local government area in Akwa Ibom state has been remanded in prison for beating a woman and forcing her to walk naked, Premium Times reports. The lawmaker was charged by the state government following public outcry. According to reports, the victim (Ms Essien) was accused of stealing the…
An official of a commercial bank and three others have allegedly emptied the account of a Nigerian man who resides in Saudi Arabia, PUNCH reports. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said the suspects had concluded that the owner of the account, Sanusi Yakubu, was dead when he did not operate the account for years….
A High Court in Bwari, Abuja on Thursday dismissed the case filed by Busola Dakolo against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA). The court also awarded costs of N1,000,000 against Dakolo and held that the fine should have been 10 times more because the court’s time was wasted. Dakolo had filed…
Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Thursday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that he was ready to face trial if his safety would be guaranteed by the court, NAN reports. Kanu told the presiding judge, Justice Binta Nyako, through his counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor. Ejiofor told the court that…
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday heard that former Ekiti Governor Ayo Fayose allegedly ‘kidnapped’, threatened and compromised an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness in his N3.3billion alleged fraud trial, The Nation report. EFCC counsel Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) told Justice C.J. Aneke that Fayose secretly met and threatened a bullion…
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