Judiciary

An Area Court sitting in Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, on Wednesday formally dissolved the Islamic marriage between Fatimah Salihu and her estranged husband, Suleiman Olarongbe, after a decade-long…

A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan has sentenced a man, Muphy Afolabi, to two years’ imprisonment for trafficking 360 grammes of Cannabis Sativa and eight grammes of Tramadol. Justice…

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, presented damning audio and video evidence in open court, featuring broadcasts by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra…

A 21-year-old man, Ogbonna Samuel, was on Tuesday arraigned before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun State for allegedly assaulting a woman and causing her permanent eye injury. Samuel,…

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday barred Mrs. Favour Kanu, the wife of Prince Fineboy Kanu—who is the younger brother of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra…

A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Friday sentenced a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominikoron, to death by hanging for the murder of his 22-year-old passenger,…

A 50-year-old driver, Innocent Emecheta, was on Tuesday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing two trucks valued at N10 million from his employer. Emecheta,…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Osogbo branch, has strongly condemned the arson attack that razed the Osun State High Court 2 in Ilesa on Monday, describing it as a "heinous attack that…

Gambia’s Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a former government minister convicted of murdering the country’s finance minister, replacing it with life imprisonment. The…

An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday struck out the defamation suit filed by renowned human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), and his son, popular musician and actor, Folarin Falana, also…