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The trial of a man accused of fraud had a dramatic twist on Monday, December 19, as he tried showing the Judge his manhood as he claimed he was brutally assaulted by police officers from Central Police Station in Nairobi, Kenya after his arrest.   Clement Odera alias Hamisi was arraigned before …

LONDON — The High Court in London on Monday ruled in favor of the government’s highly contentious policy to deport asylum seekers who arrive in Britain by boat to Rwanda, but it also said that eight specific deportation cases should be reconsidered. The policy, which is intended to help deter …

Before 2019, the court had not used the procedure for 15 years, according to statistics compiled by Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Since then, he found, the court has used it 19 times. The court has been using another kind of shortcut to …

Imo State high court in Orlu was on Saturday, December 17, set ablaze by gunmen who targeted part of the structure housing sensitive documents.   Daily Trust reported that the complex is housing both the high court and a magistrates’ court.   It was also learnt that the Orlu high court …

Justice B. Bassi of High Court 12, Jos, Plateau State has remanded Mrs Nneamaka Nwachuku for allegedly torturing her 11-year-old house help, Margret Joshua to death.    Late Margret was reportedly tortured to death on November 11, 2022, by  Nwachukwu after pouring hot water on her body, a development that subsequently …

A lawsuit filed by the immediate past Minister of state for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, which sought to nullify the candidacy of Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, has been struck out by …

You may remember the small matter of 12 of Europe’s biggest clubs standing up to the continent’s organising body in April 2021, looking to create a breakaway super league that undercut UEFA. While the move ultimately failed, UEFA and FIFA have made moves to completely squash any talk of a …

A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has remanded a 75-year-old man, Sunday Muoghalu in prison for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl put in his custody.   Recall that last weekend, a video of the minor, who was impregnated by Muoghalu, her guardian went viral on the internet which prompted …

Banning wild camping on Dartmoor could also end up affecting birdwatching and rock climbing, lawyers for the national park have said, as a landowner tries to stop people sleeping overnight in the park. The judge hearing the case, Sir Julian Flaux, the chancellor of the high court, has said he …

Two Chinese nationals, Meng Wei Kun and Xu Kuai standing trial before a Sokoto State High Court on a two count charge of conspiracy and attempting to bribe one Abdullahi Lawal, former Head of the Sokoto Zonal Command of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday December 13, 2022 …