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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday vacated an arrest warrant issued against one Ezekiel Onyedikachi, a former manager to Gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo. Justice Alexander Owoeye vacated the warrant, following an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). EFCC prosecutor, Mrs Bilikisu Buhari, had approached the court on January 16, to obtain an arrest warrant against …

A man has been sentenced to two years imprisonment in Abuja without an option of a fine for cutting off his female friend’s finger after seeing her with one of his friends.   The man, Mas’ud Yusuf, who resides at Dei-Dei market, was arraigned before an Abuja magistrates’ court sitting in Jiwa for causing grievous hurt and assault on his …

A 36-year-old man, Nibras Isah, was on Thursday, January 23, remanded by a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly attempting to r3pe his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter.   Isah, who resides at Ungwan Sanusi in Kaduna, is charged with attempted r3pe.   The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, who did not take the plea of the accused, ordered that he should be kept …

A woman who was blamed by French courts for her divorce because she no longer had sex with her husband, has won an appeal in Europe’s top human rights court, the court said on Thursday, January 23. The French woman – identified as Ms H.W, born in 1955 – brought her case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) …

A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Akure Ondo State has remanded a 32-year-old Sunday Abilewa, in Olokuta Correctional Centre, for allegedly k!lling his 68-year-old father.      Abilewa was arrested by men of the Ondo State Police Command and charged to court for murder.     The Prosecutor, Inspector Abdulateef Suleiman, told the court that Abilewa, on December 31, 2024, at …

The Ekiti State Government announced on Thursday, January 23, that the existing legal framework in the state does not recognize a Sharia Court or an Independent Sharia Arbitration Panel.   The statement was made by the state Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Dayo Apata, in response to news reports about the first public sitting of the Ekiti State Shari’ah …

An Ogun State High Court on Wednesday, January 22, sentenced a 22-year-old man, Jamiu Malomo, to d3ath by hanging for k!lling a s3x worker, Asisat Akande.    LIB reported that Malomo, an ex-convict who was released from prison a month before the incident, st@bbed the deceased to d3ath with a knife following a heated argument over his refusal to pay …

A Kaduna State High Court on Tuesday, January 21, denied bail to Alhaji Bashir Sa’idu, former Chief of Staff to ex-Governor Nasir El-Rufai, and ordered his continued remand in a correctional facility. Sa’idu faces 10 charges, including allegations of money laundering, embezzlement, and stealing.   During the court session presided over by Justice Isa Aliyu, Sa’idu pleaded not guilty after …

A retired Upper Shari’a Court Judge, Mahmoud Shehu, has been granted bail by a Magistrate Court in Zaria, Kaduna State, over allegations of assaulting a visually impaired housewife.   The court, presided over by Senior Magistrate Ibrahim Adamu Salisu, approved bail for Shehu on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, stipulating that he must provide two sureties who are civil servants on …

Nigerians have vowed to drag the federal government to court over approval of a 50 percent increase in calls, data, and other telecommunication tariffs. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, last week hinted that telecom tariffs will go up by either 30 or 50 percent following a disagreement in a meeting between him and operators who had proposed a …