Judiciary

An 18-year-old student, Joseph Chive, has been ordered to be remanded at the Makurdi Correctional Centre by a Chief Magistrates’ Court over the alleged killing of a 14-year-old girl, Mimidoo…

A Department of State Services (DSS) operative, testifying as a prosecution witness, on Wednesday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous…

An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Wednesday ordered the remand of two brothers, Abimbola Oyetunde, 51, and Kolawole Oyetunde, 47, in a correctional facility over an alleged attempt…

Justice John Tsoho, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court (FHC), on Sunday, announced the redeployment of some judges. Justice Tsoho, in a statement by FHC’s Director of Information,…

The Ilajo Royal Family of Kabba in Kogi State has hailed the Supreme Court’s verdict upholding their right to contest for the revered Obaro stool. In a statement on Sunday by Dr…

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…