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Kanye West and adidas have settled their years-long legal battle, which dated back to the company cutting ties with the rapper and producer back in 2022 over his antisemitic comments. On Tuesday, October 29, a report by Reuters announced that the parties had reached an out-of-court settlement that concluded all of the cases between them. “Both parties said we don’t …

A High Court sitting in Otu-Jeremi in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State has ordered the remand of one Okiemute Kasia in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Okere, Warri, for allegedly def!ling his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter. Right activist and the National Coordinator, Initiative For Social Rights Concerns And Advancement (ISRCA), Comrade Derrick Oritsematosan Agberen, who …

A woman, Mariam Alagbede on Tuesday asked the Area Court, Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, Kwara state, to beg her husband, Muhammed Bashir, not to divorce her.       Alagbede of Idiape village, Ogidi Area, Ilorin, said that she was still interested in the marriage.   “I don’t want divorce. Please sir, help me beg him to forgive me for anything I …

Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexu@l Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a 41-year-old car cleaner identified as Ezekiel Udoh, to life imprisonment for d#filing and impregnating his neighbor’s granddaughter, aged 12.       Delivering her judgment, Justice Oshodi said the convict took advantage of the young girl under the pretense of running errands and exploited her …

  A court has ruled that a Portuguese robber and drug dealer remain in the UK because allowing him to be deported would upset his mother.      Fabio Indiai used Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights to argue that if he was forcibly removed from Britain it would harm his mother’s mental health.       The …

A Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced five women to two years in prison each for illegally importing 6.96 kilograms of “Ghana loud,” a potent strain of cannabis sativa, commonly known as marijuana.   The convicted women are Basirat  Olarigbibe (also known as Basirat Feyisara Olaribigbe), Fatima Garuba (aka Fatima Ladidi Abogun), Amudalat Adekunle (aka Amudalat Ajetunmobi), …

Grade A Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has adjourned for judgment a divorce suit brought before it by one Adewole, against his wife, Oluwabunmi, in which he alleged that her behaviour was intolerable.   Adewole told the court that Oluwabunmi was irresponsible and failed totally in her duties as a wife and mother.   The plaintiff alleged that the …

The pastor of a Pentecostal church in Onipanu, Lagos, Abraham Olaluwoye, has been remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly r3ping a 27-year-old lady (name withheld).   According to punch, the victim said the incident happened on September 16, 2024, when she was called by the cleric to come to the church so he could help her get a job. …

The Federal High Court in Abuja has issued a summons for Adeola Ajayi, Director-General of Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS), to appear before the court to explain why he should not face imprisonment for contempt.    The summons, signed by the court registrar, mandates Ajayi’s appearance, directing him to “show cause why an order for your committal should not …

A South African woman has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating the m8rder of her husband, Raymond Themba Mathebula.      Mathebula, a teacher, was taken into custody during proceedings at Nkowankowa Magistrate’s Court on Friday, October 25, 2024.      Raymond was discovered dead following an incident involving an unidentified burned body in a vehicle on June 15, 2024, at …