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January 21, 2023 No Responses

Court Jails Medical Doctor For Negligence

Justice Adedayo Akintoye of Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, has sentenced a medical doctor, Ejike Orji, to one year imprisonment for negligence and endangering the life of a 16-year-old patient. Ejike and his wife, Grace Orji, ...

January 6, 2023 No Responses

NCS Loses Four Personnel To Smugglers

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, said it lost four of its officers to smugglers in 2022. The acting Controller of the unit, Deputy Comptroller Hussein Ejibunu, disclosed this on Thursday in Lagos. Ejibunu exp...

January 5, 2023 No Responses

Court Remands Two Brothers For Allegedly Enticing Married Woman

A Shari’a Court sitting in Kano on Wednesday, ordered the remand of two brothers, Saifullahi Hamisu, Mujahid Hamisu and one Hassana Surajo, in a Correctional Center for allegedly enticing a married woman. The defendants, who lives at Bachirawa Quarters...

December 27, 2022 No Responses

CSOs Sue NDDC Over Budget Breakdown

Three civil society organisations (CSOs) have dragged the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to court over alleged failure to furnish them with its 2020 Budget breakdown in line with the provisions of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. The CSOs...

December 24, 2022 No Responses

FRSC Mobile Courts Convicts 84 Drivers

The Niger Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has secured conviction of 84 motorists for various traffic offences through mobile courts in Suleja and Chanchaga local government areas of the state. The Sector Commander in the state,...

October 22, 2022 No Responses

Wife Drags Husband To Court Over Alleged Secret Marriage To More Wives

A housewife, Mrs Amina Muhammad, on Friday dragged her husband, Salisu Mohammed, before a Customary Court in Nyanya, Abuja, for alleged secret marriage to two more wives. The petitioner, who resides in Mararaba, Abuja, made the allegation in a divorce...

October 21, 2022 No Responses

Emefiele To Appear In Court Over $70m Judgment Debt

The Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele to appear in court January 18, 2023 to explain his refusal to obey a valid court order. Justice Inyang Ekwo issued the...

September 29, 2022 No Responses

Court Acquits Three AIICO Staff Accused Of N1.5b Fraud

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, on Wednesday acquitted three staff of the American International Insurance Company Limited, (AIICO) charged with fraud of N1.5 billion The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report that Taiwo, in a r...

September 27, 2022 No Responses

N5b Libel Suit: Out Of Court Settlement Fails, Court Adjourns To Nov15

THE out-of-court settlement embarked upon by parties in a N5 billion libel suit instituted by the immediate past Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Akwa Ibom, Mike Igini, has failed in a Benin High Court presided over by Justice Vestee Eboreime ...

September 9, 2022 No Responses

Tribunal slams N25m Fine Against MultiChoice

The Competition and Consumer Protection (CCPC) Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, awarded a N25 million fine against MultiChoice Nigeria Ltd, the operator of the satellite televisions, DStv and Gotv, for violating its restraining order.&nbs...

September 7, 2022 No Responses

Tribunal Orders MultiChoice MD To Produce Audited Financial Report

A Competition and Consumer Protection (CCPC) Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered John Ugbe, the Managing Director of MultiChoice Nigeria Ltd, to produce its 2021 audited financial report on Sept 8 for breaching its restraining order on tar...

September 6, 2022 No Responses

Court Orders Return Of 58 Tractors, Summons Zamfara Commissioner

A High Court II sitting in Gusau, Zamfara State, has ordered the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ibrahim Magayaki, to return 58 tractors and appear before the court on Sept. 14. The Presiding judge, Justice Bello Shinkafi,...

August 24, 2022 No Responses

Man Drags Mother-In-Law To Court Over Wife’s Refusal To Return Home

A businessman, Isma’il Ibrahim, on Tuesday dragged one Zainab Muhammad, his mother-in-law, to a Shari’a Court at Rigasa Kaduna, for allegedly refusing to allow his wife to return to her matrimonial home. The complainant, a Resident at Police Station road...

August 17, 2022 No Responses

Wife Drags Husband To Court Over Lack Of Food

A nursing mother, Hassana Shehu on Wednesday dragged her husband, Abubakar Dauda to a Sharia court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, over lack of food. The complainant said that her husband had not provided adequate food and care for...