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May 6, 2023 No Responses

Court Orders UBA To Take Over Ogiemwonyi’s Properties

A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted an order directing United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, to take over two properties located in Benin City, Edo State, belonging to Godwin Ogiemwonyi (trading under the names of Ogiemwonyi Godwin Nigeria...

April 22, 2023 No Responses

Court Nullifies Sections Of CAMA 2020

A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja has nullified some sections of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020 which were considered to infringe on the fundamental human rights of Nigerian citizens. Justice James Omotosho, who struck out the sections...

March 27, 2023 No Responses

Court Blocks Oyo State Govt’s Accounts In Four Banks Over N3.4b Debt

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja has issued an order attaching funds standing to the credit of Oyo State Government and its agencies in four banks. Justice A. O. Ebong issued the order while ruling on...

February 20, 2023 No Responses

Contempt: Court Vacates Order Sentencing Fidelity Bank MD, Company Secretary

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State has vacated its ruling that convicted and sentenced the Managing Director and Company Secretary of Fidelity Bank Plc to six weeks in prison or a fine of Four Hundred Thousand Naira...

January 28, 2023 No Responses

Court Dissolves 15-Year-Old Marriage Over Alleged Money Ritual

A middle-aged housewife, Mrs Olawumi Olasemo on Friday prayed a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her union to estranged husband, Wale Olasemo on grounds of attempted money ritual and domestic violence. Olawumi, told the court that...

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 ...