By Glory Abuh-adejoh The Police on Tuesday arraigned three men in a Wuse Zone 6 Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for alleged criminal trespass. The prosecution alleged that the defendants trespassed into the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) property and illegally connected electricity into their shops. The defendants: Shuaibu Mansur, 20; Waraku Dahisu,Continue Reading
Mr Ishmael Bluejack, a Port Harcourt-based lawyer, on Friday commended the nation’s judiciary, saying Nigerians were still accessing justice inspite of the current challenges. Bluejack, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt, was reacting to the outcome of the judgment in the Jaja Estate suitContinue Reading
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 30-year-old unemployed man, Ismaila Babalola, in Kirikiri Prisons after pleading guilty to stealing a generator set valued at N56,000. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Jadesola Adeyemi-Ajayi, ordered the remand of the accused after he admitted committing the crime. Adeyemi-Ajayi, however, adjourned theContinue Reading
By Bayo Onanuga @aonanuga1956 Wrote: With the circulation of misleading reports about Atiku’s case in Chicago, I asked a lawyer, Oluwole Afolabi for an executive summary. He did a good job, offering non-legalese, succinct insight. How it started: Atiku’s lawyers brought an application under U.S.C. 1782 for the court’sContinue Reading
By Adenike Ayodele The Lagos State government on Thursday arraigned a man, Stephen Monday, before an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for allegedly defiling his lover’s four-year-old daughter. Monday, whose residential address was not given, is facing a count of defilement. He, however, pleaded not guilty to theContinue Reading
Abuja: A Federal High Court, Abuja has restrained the national body of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from dissolving the Rivers’ chapter of the State Executive Committee (SEC) over alleged anti-party activities. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, said he found that the case of the plaintiff, MrContinue Reading
Abuja: A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, restrained the Ondo State House of Assembly from impeaching the Deputy Governor, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, over alleged gross misconduxt. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling shortly after Aiyedatiwa’s counsel, Kayode Adewusi, moved the ex-parte motion to the effect. The judgeContinue Reading
By Glory Abuh-Adejoh Abuja: The National Industrial Court, Abuja, on Monday dismissed a suit filed by Ndubueze Uchechukwu, an employee of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) for lacking in merit. Uchechukwu had filed a suit against NAFDAC, challenging the agency’s decision to unofficially stopContinue Reading
By Biola Lawal Abuja: The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) battle against fake drugs yeilded results as a Federal High Court in Awka jailed Ogbodo Friday seven years in prison for falsifying Emzor paracetamol Flowerbudnews recalls that NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye had recently orderedContinue Reading
