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An appeals court in Romania ruled on Thursday that the human trafficking case against influencer Andrew Tate, his brother, and two Romanian women cannot go to trial because of multiple legal and procedural irregularities on the part of the prosecutors.   The ruling comes two years after Andrew Tate, 38, and his brother Tristian Tate, 36, were arrested, along with the two women. …

Justice Deinde Dipeoplu of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture of a warehouse built on a landed property measuring 1.925 hectares of land along the Lagos/Ibadan expressway in Magboro, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.    The court also ordered the permanent forfeiture of 54 general purpose steel containers.   Channels TV …

Grammy award-winning singer, Adele is the subject of a plagiarism case, as a local musician in Brazil has accused her of copying works from his 1995 album.   A 2015 song by Grammy Award-winning British singer Adele could be pulled from streaming services globally after a Brazilian judge, Judge Vitctor Torres ordered the Brazilian subsidiaries of Sony and Universal to …

Former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello, has appealed to Justice Maryann Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja, to spare him the possession of a landed property in the Maitama district as one of the conditions for bail.  Bello made the plea on Thursday, December 19, 2024, through his counsel, J.B. Daudu SAN.  He …

  The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Thursday, December 19, secured a fresh N500 million bail from a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Maitama, after being in detention since December 10,   In a ruling that was delivered by Justice Maryann Anenih, the court ordered him to provide three sureties …

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear last-ditch legal arguments from TikTok as to why it should not be banned or sold in the US. The US government is taking action against the app because of what it says are its links to the Chinese state – links which TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have denied. The Supreme …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Interior Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, and the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to ensure that applicants who meet all the requirements are issued international passports within six weeks, in line with Section 9(4) of the Immigration Act 2015.   Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order in a judgment on a fundamental rights enforcement …

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 18, rejected two bids to overturn a controversial piece of legislation that severely restricts LGBTQ rights, which lawmakers adopted earlier this year.   Lawmakers approved the Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill in February, drawing international condemnation despite receiving widespread public support in the conservative West African country. The proposed legislation stipulates jail terms …

A Magistrate Court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, has ordered the remand of a 54-year-old man, Chima Eseni Etta, for allegedly k!lling his wife of 16 years, Ugochukwu Chima.     Chima is facing a count charge bothering on m8rder.      Appearing in Court for the first time on Tuesday since arrest by the police, the accused did not take …

A High Court sitting in Ibusa, Delta State has sentenced three men to d3ath by hanging for the m3rder of Obi Edward Akaeze Ofulue III, the traditional ruler of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom.   Obi Ofulue was abducted by gunmen along the Ubulu-Uku-Obior Road in January 2016 and later k!lled by his captors.    His then 15-year-old son, Chukwuka Noah Akaeze I, …