A former staff of the Nigerian Correctional Service (formerly Nigerian Prison Service) was arraigned by Nigerian anti-corruption agency over failure to report salary overpayment in […]
Category: Court
Report of court cases across the country.
Tenant In Court For Allegedly Refusing To Pay Rent For 10 Years
A 50-year-old man, Igwe James, who allegedly refused to pay his rent for ten years, on Friday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Life Camp, […]
Absence Of Witness Again Stalls Trial of 47 Men For Homosexuality Case In Lagos
The trial of 47 Nigerian men charged with homosexuality, punishable by 14 years in jail in Nigeria, stalled again on Wednesday as their accusers failed […]
Lagos Court Orders Halt To Waterfront Evictions
A court in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital on Thursday ordered the military to halt forced evictions of coastal communities after thousands of people were removed […]
Court Orders Forfeiture Of 25 Properties Belonging To Yar’Adua Foundation, Others
A Federal Capital Territory High (FCT) Court (No.3) Maitama has ordered the final forfeiture of twenty-five properties belonging to Shehu Yar’Adua Foundation and 24 other […]
EFCC: Maina’s Son, Faisal Gets N60m Bail
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja granted bail to Faisal Abdulrasheed Maina, son of the former chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed […]
Court Disqualifies APC Deputy Governorship Candidate In Bayelsa
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Tuesday, disqualified the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Biobarakuma […]
SERAP sues Buhari, NASS, others ‘over failure to account for security votes since 1999’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit in the Federal High Court, Abuja “seeking leave to apply for judicial review and an […]