Nigeria’s Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has summoned the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, following a PREMIUM TIMES investigation that disclosed he failed to declare several bank accounts in his asset declaration form, in violation of the country’s Code of Conduct law. Multiple sources within the CCB disclosed that the…
Yakubu Adamu Justice Mohammed Umar of a Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, adjourned indefinitely, the alleged terrorism financing trial of the Bauchi State Finance Commissioner, Yakubu Adamu. Justice Umar disclosed that the decision to suspend the trial follows request for the transfer of the case by the prosecution. According to the trial court, prosecution…
Justice Tsoho By Sufuyan Ojeifo The Bench cannot sit in judgement of the law while standing outside it. In a nation where the rule of law is ostensibly the bedrock of democracy, the allegations that the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, John Terhemba Tsoho, has operated undeclared bank accounts in blatant violation of…
A Federal High Court in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, has sentenced a 30-year-old man, Nkereuwem Felix Effiong, to life imprisonment for kidnapping a Judge of the Akwa Ibom State High Court, Hon. Justice Joy Unwana. Effiong, a native of Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of the state, was convicted on charges bordering on…
Three senior officials of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) were on Wednesday arraigned before the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja over alleged fraud, corruption and money laundering amounting to over N2.04bn. The defendants are Felix Njoku, a former Director of Finance of the NRC; Benjamin Chinwuba Iloanusi, currently a Director in the corporation’s…
Justice Maryam Sabo of the Kano State High Court sitting in Kano has convicted and sentenced Ebonine Rita Uzoamaka to seven years imprisonment for obtaining the sum of N5.6million by false pretence. The convict was arraigned on August 18, 2021, on five-count charges of dishonest misappropriation of funds totaling N5,600,000.00 Uzoamaka bagged her imprisonment when…
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, admitted in evidence more documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, in the alleged N76bn, $31.5m fraud trial involving a former Managing Director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Ahmed Kuru, and others. Kuru, alongside Kamilu…
Youth groups in Kaduna State on Wednesday took to the streets to protest the continued detention of former governor, Nasir El-Rufai, demanding his immediate release. The protesters, drawn from different communities converged on strategic locations within Kaduna metropolis and parts of Southern Kaduna, chanting solidarity songs and carrying placards with inscriptions such as “Free El-Rufai…
Former Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, will stay longer in remand as the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday refused to hear his bail application. The court held that since the former governor had yet to be in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), talking about whether or…
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC). Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, February 24, 2026, arraigned a former Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Fidet Okhiria Edetanle, before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, over alleged $385,000 and ₦165,438,000.00 fraud. Edetanle was…
