“I never wished death on my husband. All I wanted was to have him in bondage and make him sick until he serves his purpose. I only told the witch doctor so that people would be convinced that his second wife was responsible for the calamity that befell him,” Continue Reading
Federal High Court, Abuja has a dismissed a suit challenging the validity of the primary election that produced Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last gubernatorial election.Continue Reading
Chief Magistrate Mabel Segun-Bello while ruling on the bail application on Monday filed admitted Sowore to bail in the sum of N20million and two sureties in like sum.Continue Reading
A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the remand of Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and four other activists in Kuje Correctional Centre pending the hearing of their bail applications.Continue Reading
A Lagos States Special Offences Court in Ikeja will on January 20, 21 and 22 hear the defence of the former Ikeja branch Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Adesina Ogunlana and two others, in an alleged N21million fraud and stealing charge.Continue Reading
Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed a suit that sought to void the emergence of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last governorship election in Ondo State.Continue Reading
A retired Chief Superintendent of Police, Carol Afegbai, dragged the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and other related abuses before a Benin-City High Court, to challenge its right to compel her to appear before it.Continue Reading
The first and second plaintiffs, Abu Dennis Uluebeka and Mary Bahago, were on death row for 15 and 20 years respectively but the sentence for Mary was commuted to life imprisonment from October 2018 while Abu, an elder of more than 80 years, has been released from prison custody, his representative told the Court.Continue Reading
Justice Okon Abang ordered all security agencies in the country to arrest Maina “wherever he may be found” and produce him in court, “without delay”, adding that the defendant’s trial would proceed in his absence pending when the defendant would be produced in court.Continue Reading
Police prosecutor, ASP Idoko John alleged that the accused persons conspired among themselves and unlawfully attempted to kill Governor Oyetola by firing guns and throwing stones at him.Continue Reading