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The Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division, will in October hear the N30bn suit lodged by the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria against Meta Platforms Incorporated (owners of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms) and its agent AT3 Resources Limited.   The Director-General of ARCON, Olalekan Fadolapo, revealed this in an …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said it has obtained an arrest warrant and commenced extradition proceedings against former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.      Alison-Madueke appeared before the Westminster Magistrates Court in London over an alleged £100,000 bribe.      The district judge, Michael Snow, granted …

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, swear-in 23 new Judges of the Federal High Court. A statement by the Court’s Director of Press and Information, Dr. Festus Akande, revealed that the CJN would administer the oath of office on the judges …

Justice Abiola Soladoye of a Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, Lagos, has remanded one Stephen Monday at a correctional centre, for allegedly defiling his lover’s four-year-old daughter.    The judge remanded the suspect on Thursday, September 29, 2023, after he pleaded not guilty to the charge of …

Justice Njideka K. Nwosu-Iheme of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja has fixed Tuesday October 17 to rule on the no case submission application filed by Peter Nwachukwu, husband of the late gospel singer, Osinachi, in view of the homicide and domestic violence-related suit instituted against …

The National President, RTEAN, Alhaji Musa Mohammed, made this remark while speaking to newsmen after a one-day peaceful protest by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Monday in Ikeja. RTEAN is a trade union registered under the Trade Unions Act. Cap T 14 Laws of the Federation 2004, a Federal …

A Chief Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, on Monday, September 25, discharged and acquitted a lecturer of the Rivers State University, Professor David Ogbonna, of charges of unlawful and indecent sexual assault against a female student.   On June 28, 2022, the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department …

Claudia Duarte Agostinho, a 24-year-old ER nurse from western Portugal, gets stressed thinking about the reality of climate change. “Right now … the big impact that it’s having on my life is the anxiety it gives me daily,” she tells Al Jazeera. She is leading a group of six young …

The Labour Party and its presidential candidate in the February 25th presidential election, Peter Obi, has filed an appeal against the September 6, 2023 ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) at the Supreme Court. Labour Party’s lawyers led by Livy Uzokwu (SAN) approached the Supreme court on 51 …

A lawsuit filed by Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, seeking to stop the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Department of State Services (DSS) from probing him over the comment he made during the valedictory session of the 9th National Assembly, has been struck out by Justice …