A Benin High Court has summoned the Edo state Attorney General And Commissioner for Justice, the Commissioner for Lands and Housing, the General Manager, Edo Geographical lnformation Service and Dr Abdulwashiu Oyakhire, the Secretary of Edo Lands Restitution Committee to show cause why they should not be jailed for disobeying court Judgment. The summons dated…
Tony Elumelu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has instituted a N4.3 billion alleged forex fraud case at the Ikeja Special Offences Court against United Bank for Africa (UBA) PLC, under the Chair of Tony Elumelu, and four others. Other defendants in the case are Muyiwa Akinyemi; Amangbo Stephen; Gesos Global Service Ltd, and…
Yakubu Dogara, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, has pleaded to be left out of discussions about him replacing Vice President Kashim Shettima as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s running mate ahead of the 2027 election. Dogara, who from Bauchi state, spoke on Sunday against the backdrop of speculations that the All Progressives Congress (APC)…
Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has convicted one Victor Ogiemwonyi and his company, Partnership Securities Limited, for stealing the sum of N953,535,861.57 (Nine Hundred and Fifty-Three Million, Five Hundred and Thirty-Five Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty-One Naira, Fifty-Seven Kobo) and $80,000.00 (Eighty Thousand United States Dollars). The…
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the appeal seeking to re-open the trial of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd), over the murder of late politician, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, was a major suspect in the death of Mrs Abiola on…
The trial of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, continued on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Maitama, Abuja, with detailed testimonies from the second and third prosecution witnesses, shedding light on alleged complex cash movements and bank transactions…
The Julius Abure led Labour Party (LP) has vowed to appeal the judgement that sacked his executive. The faction said it will appeal the judgment, claiming it contradicted the Supreme Court’s verdict that no court can appoint leadership for a political party. The National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, said the judgment misinterpreted the Supreme Court’s…
Dr. Don Pedro Obaseki Dr. Pedro Obaseki has offered reasons why he decided to seek justice through the courts following what he described as his brutal public abduction, violent assault and extra-judicial humiliation in Benin City on December 28, 2025. He said the drive for justice is not for revenge or political motives, but by…
Terror suspect, Omeiza A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has exonerated the Department of State Services (DSS) over the alleged detention and killing of an Islamic State – West Africa Province (ISWAP) terror suspect, Yusuf Lukman Omeiza. Justice Musa Liman, in a judgement, held that the plaintiffs failed to prove their claim that the…
