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Two officers, Fatai Yusuf, 42, and Hammed Garuba, 38, who developed itchy fingers during  a recent raid, have been sacked by the  Lagos State Task Force for acts unbecoming of officers of the law. Disclosing this development in a statement on Friday (yesterday, November 29), Task

A Federal High Court in Abuja today (Friday, November 29) discharged and acquitted no fewer than 50 alleged members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) of  terrorism charges brought against them by the police. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held

The Appeal Court sitting in Lagos has acquitted a Lagos-based medical doctor earlier convicted of rape and sexual assault charge by a lower court. Olaleye was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Lagos high court on a two-count charge

Justice Maryann Anenih of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Maitama today (Wednesday, November 27) ordered that ex-Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello be remanded in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) custody, pending the determination

Immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has finally arrived in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, in Abuja, for arraignment on alleged N110bn fraud charges. Bello, who was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja,  has sentenced a 54-year old fake medical doctor, Mr. Martins Ugwu, to four  years and two months in jail. Ugwu was convicted for making a false statement to the Chairman of the

Dr Uchenna Uchegbu, a physically challenged medical practitioner, has dragged his brothers including Hon. Kyrian Uchegbu, the Imo State representative on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board, to court for denying him share in their father’s landed property. The defendants

Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin has appealed to Nigerians  to join hands with the police and other security agencies to fight  crimes in the land. Speaking at the Bompai headquarters of the Kano State Command, where he launched the 1000 motor cycles

From NDUJIHE UGWU, Abuja The Supreme Court today (Friday, November 22) nullified the National Lottery Act enacted in 2005 by the National Assembly. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-member panel of Justices, held that the National Assembly had