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The Zion Prayer Movement Outreach has slammed Sahara Reporters, an online platform, for publishing a report linking its Spiritual Director, Evangelist Ebuka Obi to the recent dismissal of three police officers by the Police Service Commission, describing the publication as unfortunate, malicious, scandalous and misleading. In a

Legal biggie and elder statesman, Afe Babalola has said he will withdraw his criminal defamation suit against rights activist, Dele Farotimi, after a visit by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. Babalola had sued Farotimi in an Ado Ekiti Magistrates’ Court following

The Court of Appeal in Enugu, on Thursday – yesterday, January 23 – dismissed an appeal filed by the acting Medical Director of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, Dr. Ngozi Unaogu, and three consultant psychiatrists against a senior nurse, Afam Ndu.

The Akure division of the Court of Appeal on Thursday -today, January 23 – upheld the judgment of the Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, which found businessman and hotelier, Rahmon Adedoyin guilty of murder charge. The court subsequently

The scheduled arraignment of Dr. Daphne Dafinone, a board member of the Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), before a Federal High Court, Lagos, today, was stalled due to her absence in court. Dr. Dafinone, alongside her company, CEDDI

Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal High Court, FCT sitting in Apo, Abuja on Thursday, January 23, 2025 granted the prayers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to amend charges brought against a former Minister of Power, Olu Agunloye

Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have bursted a suspected baby factory located inside one of the sprawling estates in Ushafa area of Abuja. Vincent Adekoye, National Press Officer, NAPTIP, in a statement, on Wednesday –

The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed a five-count terrorism-related charges against Kaduna-based activist and social critic, Mahdi Shehu, over his recent  online and offline activities considered inimical to national security. The charges were filed at the Federal High Court sitting

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may have begun a man-hunt for one of its officers said to have disappeared owing largely to his inability to explain the whereabouts of “over 30,000 dollars” from an exhibit room in Kaduna. Although the leadership of the