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Inheritance: Badagry Prince Bags one Year Imprisonment for Forgery
A Badagry Prince, Semasa James, is to spend the next one year in prison for using forged documents while administering the estate of his father, late Oba Afolabi James of Kweme land, Badagry.An Ikeja Special Offences Court…
Edo Guber: Tribunal Affirms Obaseki’s Victory
The Edo Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin, has affirmed the victory of Gov. Godwin Obaseki in the Sept. 19, 2021 governorship poll in the state.The Justice Yunusa Musa-led three-member tribunal on…
Police Brutality: 80% of Cases still at Hearing Stage in Kaduna
The Judicial Panel of inquiry looking into police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kaduna State, says approximately 80 per cent of cases filed are still at hearing stage.The panel, which began sitting on Jan. 5, had…
Autonomy: Workers storm National Assembly, threaten to shut down state assemblies
Members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly Gate at the Three Arms Zone, Abuja to protest non-implementation of the financial autonomy for the judiciary.A video of the…
N9.4bn Bribe: ICPC Explains Why It Cannot Prosecute Judges, Lawyers Involved
A survey conducted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) has shown that N9.4bn bribes were exchanged in the judiciary from 2018 to 2020.The body has however stated that it may not be able…
Obaseki In Trouble As APC File Certificate Forgery Suit Against Him
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has opened its case of alleged certificate forgery against Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, at the Federal High Court in Abuja.The case opened on Thursday before Justice Ahmed Mohammed.This…
NJC Suspends Two Judges Over Age Falsification
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has put forward two judicial officers for immediate retirement over alleged age falsification.The Director of Information, National Judicial Council (NJC), Mr Soji Oye, revealed this in a…
150 Convicts Released Following Rivers State Court Order
A Rivers State High Court has ordered the complete release of 150 inmates currently being held at the Port Harcourt Maximum Correctional Centre.The Herald Nigeria gather that the released inmates had spent nine years in prison…
CBN Governor Charged With Contempt Over N182b Judgement Debt
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has been instituted with a contempt charge for allegedly refusing to sanction a N182 billion payment to the people of Ogoni community.The said sum was money awarded…
EndSARS: Police Files Suit Seeking an End to Judicial Panel Probe into Police Brutality
The Nigeria Police Force has filed a suit in the Federal High Court, Abuja seeking an order to stop the various states’ judicial panels of inquiry probing allegations of rights abuses by the police.The suit which was filed Thursday is…
Lekki Shootings: In Hindsight, We Would Have Acted the Same – Nigerian Army
The Nigerian Army has said that in hindsight, it will not have taken a different line of action if presented again with a scenario similar to the Oct. 20 shooting incident at the Lekki Tollgate.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…
Federal High Court Revokes Abdulrasheed Maina’s Bail, Issues Bench Warrant
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the revocation of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT)’s bail.Justice Okon Abang, who gave the order in a ruling, also issued a bench warrant…
JUST IN: Supreme Court Dismisses Suit Against Bayelsa Gov, Deputy
The Supreme Court has affirmed Duoye Diri and Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo as duly-elected Bayelsa Governor and Deputy Governor respectively.According to Channels Television, a seven-man panel of the apex court in a unanimous decision affirmed…
I wasn’t Expecting any Awards – Gov. Ortom says Upon Receiving “Courage in…
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue has commended the Federal Government for the relative peace the people of the state are currently enjoying.Ortom made this known in Abuja while receiving an award for “Courage in Leadership” presented to him…
Wike to Buhari: You can’t love state judges more than govs love them
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has described as "illegal and ill-advised" the Federal Government’s decision to deduct state funds on behalf of state judiciaries, under the purported Executive Order 10.The governor said more problems…
Businessman, 34, In Court For Allegedly Stealing 100 Bags of Salt, Flour
A 34-year-old businessman, Habibu Ishaku, on Thursday appeared in a Chief Magistrates’ Court, Kaduna, for allegedly stealing 100 bags of salt and 73 bags of flour worth N300,000.The police charged Ishaku, who resides in Tudun Tukur Area…
Police Arraign Woman, 1 other Over Alleged N532,000 Fraud
The police on Thursday arraigned a 55-year-old woman, Olusola Olujonwon, and a 54-year-old man, Ogunade Feyikemi, for allegedly defrauding two female job seekers of N532,000 for police recruitment.The defendants, whose residential…
Don’t Allow your Personal Ambitions Becloud Your Sense of Judgement – CJN Cautions New…
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, has cautioned the eight new Justices of the Supreme Court not to allow their personal ambitions to becloud their sense of judgment.Mohammad gave the warning during the…
Tanker Driver Charged With Reckless Driving In Abuja For Endangering Life of Public Servant
A 44-year-old public servant, Mrs Michelle Atar on Thursday, told a Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja that a petrol tanker driver, Jume Mubarak drove against traffic, crushed and destroyed her car.The police charged Mubarak, 25,…
Lovers In Ogun Sentenced To 1 Year Imprisonment For Motorcycle Theft
An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Wednesday sentenced two lovers to one year imprisonment with an option of N50,000 fine each for stealing motorcycle, valued N250,000.The Magistrate, Mrs. A.O. Adeyemi, said that the prosecution had…
Assault: Magistrate Court Issues Bench Warrant For Arrest of NSCDC Official
A Magistrates’ Court in Ilorin on Wednesday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of an officer of the Nigeria Security Civil Defense Corp (NSCDC), Abdulkadir Bello.Magistrate Muhammed Ibrahim, gave the order following the absence of…
Nick Cannon Fired from ViacomCBS for anti-White, Racist Comments
African-American Rapper, Nick Cannon has been fired by the Producers of his show, Nick Cannon's Wild n Out', ViacomCBS for making anti-white racist comments and theories on a recent live podcast.Nick Cannon broke the internet this…
Corruption Within the Nigerian Judiciary: Causes and Solutions- Abdulrasheed Hammad
According to Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International (TI), judicial corruption is when the voice of the innocent goes unheard while the guilty act with impunity. This means that the judiciary will lead to corruption in the…
Keep the Courthouse out of Politics, A Psychologist Plea To Chief Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad
.... Save it from the Sickness of Judge/Forum Shopping. Enough is Enough!On twitter, Jiti Ogunye , a Public Interest Lawyer captures it all when he noted that the “Courts barred a party from fielding candidates in a general election,…