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A Chief Magistrate Court in Lokoja, on Friday – earlier today, February 28 – remanded a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Austin Okai, in the Correctional Centre pending the investigations labeled against him by the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS). Chief Magistrate Abdullahi Musa-Mopa,

The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Friday, ordered that all members of the Lagos House of Assembly be joined as parties in the suit filed by ousted Speaker, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa. Justice Yetunde Pinheiro has also adjourned the case till

The Onitsha indigenous community has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to take over the investigation of the murder of Hon. Justice Azuka, who represented Onitsha North Constituency 1 in the Anambra State House of Assembly. In

The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday – yesterday, February 26 – February 26, 2025, arraigned Jude Okoye Chigozie, older brother and ex-manager of Paul and Peter Okoye of the defunct P-Square music group,

The Special Offences Court in Lagos has refused to stop hearing the corruption allegations made against the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.   Justice Rahman Oshodi in his ruling on Wednesday dismissed the request for him

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has filed a N100 billion defamation suit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and his senior legislative aide, Mfon Patrick. The suit marked CV/737/25, before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory FCT l, is an offshoot of

In response to the growing complaints by Enugu State residents over the rising exploitation of tenants and prospective tenants by landlords, the Enugu State House of Assembly has introduced a bill to checkmate the alleged excesses. Entitled “the Bill for

A Lagos State Magistrate Court, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos, has cleared Abdulazeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, and three others of any involvement in the September 12, 2023 controversial death of Aloba Oladimeji Ilori-Oluwa, also known as Mohbad. Magistrate Ejiro Kubenje,

The Abuja division of the Federal High Court has stopped the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) from tendering a DNA test result against a former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Mr Kabiru Turaki, in a paternity dispute suit. Turaki,