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January 13, 2021 No Responses

Court Remands Hairstylist For Allegedly Beating Up Ex-Husband

A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered that a 23-year old hairstylist, Gift Paul, who allegedly beat up her former husband be remanded in a correctional facility. The police charged Paul with criminal trespass, assault and...

January 12, 2021 No Responses

Court Nullifies Sack Of Tribune Staff

The National Industrial Court in Ibadan, on Monday nullified the sack of Mr Kareem Popoola, a staff of African Newspaper of Nigeria PLC, Publisher of Nigerian Tribune titles, by the company . Popoola, a former President of staff cooperative society...

January 8, 2021 No Responses

Mobile Courts Convict 76 Traffic Offenders

The Zone 4 Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) comprising Plateau, Benue and Nasarawa States, commenced OPERATION ZERO TOLERANCE with the aim of ensuring sanity on the road during the Christmas and New Year Operations from 15 December,...

December 23, 2020 No Responses

Court Orders Divorce-Seeking Woman To Refund N50,000 Dowry

A Shari’a court sitting at Rigasa, Kaduna, on Tuesday ordered one Nur Aminu, 25, to refund the N50,000 dowry she received from her husband Abdulrahman Garba, in exchange for divorce. The judge, Malam Salisu Tureta, gave the order after the...

December 15, 2020 No Responses

My Husband Sleeps With Church Members, Pastor’s Wife Tells Court

“My husband is a womaniser, he sleeps with church members,’’ a 49-year-old evangelist, Chinwe Ekwe, told an Igando Customary Court on Monday in Lagos. Chinwe spoke while responding to a divorce suit filed by her husband, Pastor Paul Ekwe, who...

November 30, 2020 No Responses

Innoson Returns To Court, Faults GTBank On Holding Company Structure

The Federal High Court, Enugu, will on Monday, November 30, 2020 begin hearing in Innoson Nigeria Limited application to stop GTBank’s proposed Holding Company Structure. Innoson in a statement issued by its Head of Corporate Communications, Corne...

September 18, 2020 No Responses

FRSC Begins “Operation Road Sanitizer” As Mobile Court Convicts 434 Traffic Offenders

The Zone 4 Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) comprising Plateau, Benue and Nasarawa States, has commenced “OPERATION ROAD SANITIZER” aimed at ensuring sanity on the roads from 18th to 30th September, 2020. The ...

September 9, 2020 No Responses

Marriage Crashes Over Missing Underwear

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a marraige involving a trader, Sadia Abass, and her husband, Azeez, over a missing underwear. Sadia had petitioned the Court to dissolve her marriage over allegations that he had stolen her...

August 12, 2020 No Responses

NJC Approves Appointment Of Six New High Court Judges For Kano

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has approved the appointment of six new High Court Judges for Kano State. Mr Jibo Baba, the Public relations Officer (PRO) of the Kano State Judiciary, made the disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in...

August 8, 2020 No Responses

Court Dissolves Zamfara APC Executives

Zamfara State High Court lV on Friday dissolved the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership in the state and ordered for fresh election of the party executives at wards, local government and state levels. Justice Bello Tukur, who delivered the judgement,...

July 22, 2020 No Responses

Court Dismisses PDP’s Suit Against Ogun EXCO

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, rejected the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Headquarters’ suit challenging the powers of the Ogun chapter of the party to conduct party congresses in the state. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, while delivering his ...

July 10, 2020 No Responses

Mining Firm Drags Ebonyi To Court, Seeks N500m Compensation

A mining company, Crushed Rock Industries Ltd., on Thursday, dragged Ebonyi State Government before the Federal High Court, Abuja, demanding N500 million damages over alleged unlawful shutdown of its quarry site. In an originating summon with suit number: FHC/...

June 12, 2020 No Responses

Court Sentences Driver To 15-Year Jail For Raping Employer’s Daughter

An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced a driver, Francis Apai, to 15 years imprisonment for raping his employer’s 17-year-old daughter in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Sherifat Solebo sentenced Apai after finding him gui...

February 27, 2020 No Responses

Diri: Supreme Court Only Affirmed God’s Judgment

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling was only affirmation of God’s judgement, which paved the way for him to emerge victorious. Senator Diri also said that there is no victor no vanquished as the...