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The magistrate court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has denied human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, bail.    Farotimi was last week arraigned before the court for allegedly defamation of the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola.   Delivering ruling in the bail application today December 10, the presiding magistrate, Abayomi Adeosun, adjourned the application of bail to December …

Lagos-based legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi, has filed a preliminary objection asking the Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court to strike out the defamation suit filed against him by legal expert, Afe Babalola.   This comes ahead of tomorrow’s hearing of the case.   The preliminary objection dated December 9, 2024, was filed through his lawyer, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, leading …

A UK upper tribunal has overturned a prior ruling that halted the deportation of 43-year-old Nigerian Olutobi Ogunbawo.    Ogunbawo’s deportation was halted by a tribunal judge following a claim by his wife, Maria Adesanya, that they would not be able to access vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment if deported to Nigeria.   Ogunbawo, who is fighting his deportation on human …

  French football legend, Marcel Desailly is ‘set for court amid ongoing paternity row over 10-year-old daughter he has refused to acknowledge.     Desailly and his ex-partner, Cosma Batista de Alcantara are due at the Paris judicial court on Tuesday amid an ongoing case to confirm whether he is the biological father of his ex-partner’s daughter, Victoria.      …

If you’ve ever wondered what really transpires in a Nigerian courtroom and the position of law in certain situations, here’s your chance to witness it firsthand! Courtroom, the groundbreaking legal series, takes you inside the drama, deliberations, and decisions that define justice in Nigeria. This episode tackles a hot-button issue of —cross-dressing and gayism in Nigeria—exploring its rising trend and …

The Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation (HCAA) has appointed Chinasa Unaegbunam, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as a member of its advisory board.   This was disclosed on Friday, December 6, in a statement by Tunde Moshood, spokesperson for Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development. Moshood described the appointment as “not only a personal achievement but …

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has overturned the order of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) suspending Muhuyi Magaji as chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC).    Umaru Fadawu, leading a three-member panel of justices, delivered the judgment on Friday, December 6, and directed that the case against Magaji be reassigned to a different …

A controversial court ruling that has ignited widespread debate, following reports of a Zimbabwean man Forward Mumango evicting his wife, Primrose Mumango, and their children from their family home to accommodate his new girlfriend.   According to H-Metro, Mumango obtained a protection order from Magistrate Meenal Narotam at the Harare Civil Court, barring his wife and children from returning to …

Chief Magistrate Caroline Oghuma of the Oredo Magisterial District has sentenced Paul Okugbowa, the candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, in the September 2024 governorship election in Edo State, to six months imprisonment for calling a married woman, Mrs Blessing Aigbudu a prostitute.     Okugbowa, 39, the proprietor of Calvary Crown Academy, Benin City, was sentenced with an …

A Jigawa State High Court, presided over by Justice Ado Yusuf Birnin-Kudu, has convicted and sentenced a wife, her husband, her brother and her sister to d3ath by hanging over a case of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide.   The convicts were arrested in 2019 after being investigated and prosecuted before the court in connection with the offences of criminal …