. By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, fixed March 3 to deliver its judgement on the consolidated suit that states filed to set aside the decision of the Federal Government to ban the use of old N200, N500 and N1000 banknotes as valid legal tenders. A seven-man panel of the apex court okayed…
Justice Eleoje Enenche of a High Court at the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on Monday restrained the Federal Government and 27 listed commercial banks from suspending, stopping, extending or interfering with the currency redesignation terminal date of February 10 or issuing any directive contrary to the date. Also restrained were the President, Major General…
APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu A human rights organisation under the aegis of the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Social Right Advancement and Development Initiative has told Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of a Federal High Court in Abuja, that the St. Paul Aroloya Primary School in Lagos which the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,…
The Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced Nollywood filmmaker and producer, Olajide Kareem, aka Seun Egbegbe, to seven years imprisonment ‘with hard labour’ for fraud. The court, however, set Mr. Kareem free because he had exceeded the imprisonment time in detention. Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo sentenced Kareem on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, after convicting…
Justice H.O. Oshodi of the Lagos State High Court sitting at Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced an Islamic cleric, Isah Mustapha, to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old girl in the state. The victim, in her testimony, said the convict had carnal knowledge of her in his house in 2017 when her mother sent her…
The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal today July 1, 2022 convicted and sentenced Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, senator representing Delta North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, to 7 years imprisonment and ordered that his two companies, Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd, be wound up in line with the…
News filtering out of Chief juatice office in Abuja indicate that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad has resigned. Gathered that he resigned last night on grounds of ill-health. Sources revealed that arrangements are now on to swear in the next most senior justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as…
Following judgement of the Supreme Court that allows all Nigerians to express their way of worship and use of hijab in schools and public places delivered on the 17/6/2022. . The majority decision affirmed the earlier Court of Appeal’s decision which restored the use of hijab by female Muslim students in Lagos State. The…
The Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel Akure ,Ondo State Prophet Babatunde Alfa and five of his church workers have been sentenced to Life imprisonment for the Kidnap and eventual disappearance of Gold Kolawole , a toddler from the church children department during Sunday service last year. Justice Olusegun Odusola of the Ondo state High Court…
The Federal High Court in Lagos has made an order of mareva injunction stopping Shoprite Checkers (PTY) Limited from disposing of or transferring its assets out of jurisdiction over a $10m judgment debt. Shoprite has announced its plan to exit Nigeria. The mareva injunction made by Justice Mohammed Liman was in favour of a Nigerian…
