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The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed November 1, 2024, to rule on the application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the final forfeiture of the $2.045million, seven choice landed properties and shares involving former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.   On the same date, the court will also rule on the …

Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld a €1,080 fine imposed on a man who appeared n@ked at a police station in Valencia and refused repeated requests to put on clothes.    The man, identified in Spanish media as Alejandro Colomar, had entered the station on August 20, 2020, to file a complaint, despite having clothes in his backpack.   Although public …

nigeri news The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought before it by Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara seeking to remove 27 members of the State House of Assembly on account of their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Abuja Division of the Appeal court said Fubara has no basis to …

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, sentenced three persons to death by hanging for armed robbery.   The convicts, Alexander Solomon, 29, Desmond Peter, 29, and Eric Tile, 30, were found guilty of conspiracy, armed robbery, and unlawful possession of firearms.   The court, however, acquitted a fourth defendant, Promise Shie (27), after ruling that …

A Harare woman, Melocia Gwata, has sought legal protection from her husband, George Kusotera, citing his excessive demands for intimacy and abusive behaviour.    Gwata revealed her ordeal to the Harare Civil Court, describing how her husband coerced her into having intercourse up to eight times per night, resorting to violence whenever she refused.   The matter came to light …

The High Court of South Africa, Northern Cape Division, sitting in Upington, adjourned the trial of a 35-year-old Nigerian national, Emmanuel Chidi Okafor, who allegedly stabbed a South African police officer to d@ath during an argument.      The spokesperson of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Northern Cape Division, Mojalefa Senokoatsane, in a statement on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, said …

The Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu has sacked the House of Representatives member representing Igboeze North/Udenu Federal constituency of Enugu State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Simon Atigwe.   The Appeal Court decision upheld the earlier ruling of the Election Petition Tribunal which declared Dennis Ndubisi Agbo of the Labour Party as the rightful winner …

The Commissioner of Transport in Lagos state, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, has said that the Federal High Court judgment banning men of the Vehicle Inspection Service otherwise known as VIO from stopping vehicles on the road, impounding erring vehicles and imposing fines on the owners of such vehicles does not apply in Lagos state.   Justice Evelyn Maha on October 3, issued …

Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a head teacher, Benjamin Ogba, to life imprisonment for def!ling two seven-year-old girls.    The judge held that the prosecution proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt, with the ingredients of defilement to the court’s satisfaction.   Sholadoye held that the evidence of the defence …

Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has blamed Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, for the ongoing political unrest in the state.    Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, Wike accused Fubara of inciting violence by proceeding with local government elections despite legal concerns.   “No person who believes in peace and stability of any nation will say he …