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The police in Lagos state on Wednesday, July 12, arraigned businessman, Amarah Kennedy, who was accused of circulating nude photos of his former lovers before a Chief Magistrates’ Court, in Ogba, Lagos.   The police arraigned the suspect on six counts charge of provocation, unlawful conversion of funds and publication …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was on Monday, July 19, barred by a federal high court sitting in Abuja from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari, over his declaration of Aisha Dahiru, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, as governor in the March 18 poll. …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Adamawa governorship election, Aisha Dahiru, popularly called “Binani,” has, again filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the nullification of her declaration as governor of Adamawa in the March 18 governorship election.   In a motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/935/2023, …

Justice Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari to give an account of the $5 billion Abacha loot so far recovered.   Vanguard reports that in a judgment delivered last …

An interim order has been issued by a federal high court in Kano state, restraining the Kano Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) and the police from arresting former Governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje.    The PCACC had invited Ganduje for questioning next week after initiating moves to prosecute …

An Ondo State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure, has ordered the remand of two of out three suspects who allegedly killed a naval officer, Samson Akingbagbohun.   The defendants, Ayomide Sambo Ayomide and Johnson Adeleke, both 20, were arrested alongside Francis Shagari, 17, for allegedly killing the officer in …

An appeal filed by Ikie Aghwarianovwe, seeking the disqualification of Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.    Aghwarianovwe was seeking the disqualification of Oborevwori from the just concluded governorship election in Delta State, for allegedly supplying false information about his academic qualification and date …

A former Senator representing Bauchi North Senatorial District, Adamu Muhammed Bulkachuwa, has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission from investigating and arresting him over the comments he made during the valedictory session of the ninth Senate.   Adamu while speaking at …

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the company, is a defendant in a suit, No LD/6903GCM/2023, before a Lagos High Court, instituted by the Isale Eko Descendants Union (IDU), following its production ‘Gang of Lagos’. The IDU had sued the company, claiming ₦10 billion damages before Justice Idowu …

The conviction and sentencing of Peter Nwaoboshi, a former senator who represented Delta north, to seven years imprisonment over money laundering charges, has been quashed by the Supreme Court in a split decision of four-to-one.   The EFCC had dragged the former lawmaker to court after claiming that Nwaoboshi and …