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16 Jun
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has arraigned a man, Oluwafemi Gbonegun, for defiling an 11-year-old girl.
15 Jun
A staff of Fortress Microfinance Bank was on Thursday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing N7.110 million belonging to the bank’s customers.
7 Jun
An Osun Magistrates’ Court in Ile-Ife on Wednesday, remanded a 23-year old man, Amontrum Daniel, over alleged shop breaking and theft.
3 Dec 2022
Against the backdrop of rising cases of Contempt of Court against key appointees of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, many erudite lawyers have come down hard on the administration, accusing it of standing law on its head.
29 Nov 2022
Justice Serifat Solebo retired gracefully on Friday, November 25, 2022, after serving in the Lagos State judiciary. She served in various judicial capacities between 1999 and 2022, both as a Magistrate and High Court Judge.
26 Nov 2022
A Federal High Court Abuja has fixed February 6, 2023, for ruling on an application by a former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, seeking to quash the 17-count criminal charge preferred against him by the Federal Government.
23 Nov 2022
A federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned till Friday November 25 to hear the preliminary objection of the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on the N3.1 billion fraud charges preferred against
23 Nov 2022
A Political group, under the aegis of Obi-Datti Movement for Justice and Equity, yesterday, urged the National Working (NWC) of Labour Party (LP) to obey court judgments by enlisting National Assembly candidates
17 Nov 2022
Justice Hakeem Oshodi of a Lagos State High Court Ikeja, yesterday, dismissed a post-conviction bail application filed by convicted dethroned Baale (Monarch) of Shangisha in the Magodo area of the state
14 Nov 2022
A Magistrate was reportedly recently reassigned for giving an Order against a Commissioner, while also recently a High Court in the FCT ordered the arrest and detention of the EFCC Chairman for contempt of Court
4 Nov 2022
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has remanded a businessman, Afolabi Islamiu Olayinka in the Ikoyi Correctional facility over an alleged fraud of N58, 527 million
1 Nov 2022
An Osogbo Magistrates’ court has remanded a 68-year-old retired school principal, Ayodele Faremi, at Correctional Centre in Ilesa, Osun State, for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old-girl.
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