Category: Legal
Court reject SSS request for arrest warrant against CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele
21 Dec 2022
The Federal High Court in Abuja has thrown out a request by the State Security Services (SSS) to order the arrest of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. The secret police had filed an ex parte application for an order for the arrest of the CBN governor over alleged “acts […]
Continue ReadingUS military Igbos sue an American in court for referring to IPOB as a terrorist organization
21 Dec 2022
Ivan Sascha Sheehan, the executive director of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore, is being sued by some Nigerians of Igbo descent who are members of the US military for referring to IPOB as a terrorist group. Sheehan was brought before the US District Court of Maryland by the […]
Continue ReadingCoalition issues a warning and demands that the DSS allegations against Emefiele be looked into
20 Dec 2022
A coalition of civil society organizations has expressed concern, alleging that plans are afoot by the Department of State Services to frame the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele (DSS). The Coalition of National Interest Defenders, a group made up of human rights lawyers, party chairmen, civil society organizations, the Arewa […]
Continue ReadingOkupe pays N13 million conviction money for N240 million money laundering offence
19 Dec 2022
Mr Doyin Okupe, former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday evening, paid N13 million for the 52-year jail term bagged for N240 million money laundering offence. Recall that Justuce Ijeoma Ojukwu, in a judgment, had found Okupe guilty in 26 out of the 59 counts preferred against him by […]
Continue ReadingDoyin Okupe found guilty of N240M money laundering charges by court
19 Dec 2022
Dr. Doyin Okupe, a Senior Special Advisor (SSA) to former President Goodluck Jonathan, was found guilty of receiving more than N200 million in cash from former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Monday. Okupe, the first defendant in the lawsuit […]
Continue ReadingNDLEA intercepts 1.7 million opioids pills and others at Lagos airport
18 Dec 2022
At least, One Million Seven Hundred and Sixty Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty (1,760,460) pills of Tramadol and other opioids have been intercepted hidden in indomie noodles packs and others at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos as well as in Gombe state. While over 600,000 pills of Tramadol 225mg coming from Karachi, […]
Continue ReadingCOURT sentence Muslim cleric to death
16 Dec 2022
A Nigerian Islamic Sharia court has sentenced a prominent Sufi Muslim cleric to death for blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed, in a rare capital punishment ruling against an imam. The Upper Sharia court passed the sentence on Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara for his revisionist preaching which the court said misinterpreted some religious texts that portrayed […]
Continue ReadingCourt remands two robbery suspect
13 Dec 2022
An Ile-Ife magistrates’ court in Osun State on Monday remanded two robbery suspects, Salami Fatai (25) and Tope Adesiyan (25). The prosecutor, ASP Joseph Adebayo, told the court that the defendants on November 3, 2022, around 1am at the Alawusa area, Edunabon, in Ife North LGA, conspired to commit felony to with armed robbery. He […]
Continue ReadingNDLEA seized baby food containing cocaine at Lagos airport, arrests suspects
11 Dec 2022
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, have intercepted parcels of cocaine concealed in different parts of a travel bag brought into Nigeria by a Brazil returnee, Nwadinobi Charles Uchemadu from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight. Uchemadu was arrested on […]
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