Lagos High Court
8 Dec
Justice Ismail Ijelu of a Lagos High Court, Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a 70-year-old electoral offender, Wahab Hammed, to one year imprisonment for vote buying and bribery.
5 Dec
A Lagos High Court, Ikeja has adjourned hearing in a $47 million loan suit between an investment company, Nichole Integrated Investments Ltd, and oil Magnate, Alhaji Sayyu Dantata and his three companies, MRS Holdings Company Limited, MRS Oil Nigeria Plc, and Bestaf Trading Company Limited to December 6, 2023.
2 Dec
The Lagos State High Court at the Ikeja, Lagos has summoned the acting Director-General, National Commission against the Proliferation of Arms, Light Weapons and Pipeline Vandalism (NATCOM), Mr Adejare Nurudeen Adegbenro to appear before it following his failure to liquidate an alleged judgment debt. Adegbenro according to the summons, is the 3rd judgment debtor in…
22 Nov
Justice Hakeem Oshodi of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, has warned the members of the public against dropping charms in his courtroom amid the trial of five men charged with the murder of one Ifeanyi Godfrey Etunmuse.
4 Oct 2023
Justice Sherifat Sonaike of a Lagos High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos, yesterday, threatened to revoke a bail granted to an immigration officer, Mohammed Umar, for his absence in the ongoing trial of alleged assault on his colleague. The court had granted him bail sometime in April 2023 after he was arraigned…
29 Aug 2023
A Lagos High Court, has restored parcels of land acquired by the Lagos State Government to its owner, Chief Livinus Okwara, 12 years after the state government acquired the property and triggered a protracted legal battle.
15 Aug 2023
A Lagos High Court, has restored parcels of land acquired by the Lagos State Government to its owner, Chief Livinus Okwara, 12 years after the state government acquired the property and triggered a protracted legal battle. The claimant, who is a Lagos-based business magnate and Director, Rimax Computer Institute joined the Governor of Lagos, Attorney…
12 Jul 2023
Justice Oyindamola Ogala of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a 30 year-old hotel staff, Ehizogie Jeffrey, to death by hanging for killing the manager and a United Kingdom (UK) returnee.
23 Jun 2023
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced an unemployed man, Lukman Ibrahim, to a year imprisonment for being in possession of fraudulent documents.
13 Jun 2023
Justice O. A. Okunuga of a Lagos High Court, Ikeja has fixed June 28, 2023 for hearing in the alleged $5m, N800m fraud trial involving Sennaike Opeoluwa.
Latest
31 mins ago
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has vowed to resign his position if former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello is not prosecuted. Olukoyede said this in a chat with journalists at the EFCC Headquarters in the Jabi area of Abuja on Tuesday. The EFCC is seeking to arraign Bello…
43 mins ago
Former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has been apprehended by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N8 billion fraud. The PUNCH reports EFCC arrests Sirika over N8bn Nigeria Air fraud that Sirika got to the EFCC's Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command in Abuja around 1pm on Tuesday. Sirika is currently being…
57 mins ago
Former governor of Imo State Emeka Ihedioha has left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after 26 years. Ihedioha announced his exit from PDP in a Tuesday letter addressed to the party’s chairman in the Mbutu Ward of Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. According to him, the PDP has taken on a path…
1 hour ago
Kim Kardashian has reportedly lost over 100,000 followers on Instagram. This significant drop comes after the release of Taylor Swift’s new album, which includes a track that fans speculate is a diss aimed at Kardashian. The song in question, titled “thanK you aIMee,” is featured on Swift’s latest album “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.”…
1 hour ago
In an interview on Justin LaBoy’s podcast “The Download,” Kanye West found himself at the center of controversy yet again due to his remarks about former First Lady Michelle Obama. During the interview, when asked about who we would want to have a “threesome” with, Kanye West replied, “Michelle Obama. Gotta f*ck the President’s wife!”…
2 hours ago
Britain's High Court agreed Tuesday to hear a legal challenge later this year over continued UK arms exports to Israel during its war against Hamas militants in Gaza. A coalition of legal advocacy groups wants the court to scrutinise the UK government's decision to keep selling military parts and arms to Israel despite claims that…
2 hours ago
Under a ceaseless storm of strikes in Gaza, a baby girl has survived insurmountable odds as the only member of her family left alive after she was delivered by Caesarian section as her mother lay dying. At just seven months pregnant, her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, reached the emergency unit in critical condition after she was…
2 hours ago
American forces were targeted at a base in western Iraq, a US defense official said Tuesday, the second such attack on the country's troops after a more than two month pause. It followed another attack over the weekend in which rockets were fired from northern Iraq at a base in Syria that houses forces from…
2 hours ago
Nigeria's fastest man this year, Favour Ashe, will not be part of the 4x100m team competing at the World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, which serves as a qualifying event for the Paris 2024 Olympics. This news is significant as the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has not provided a reason for Ashe's omission despite…
2 hours ago
Gov. Nasir Idris of Kebbi has released N309.5 million for the payment of foreign scholarships to 86 indigenes studying in India and Egypt. The Commissioner for Higher Education, Alhaji Isah Abubakar-Tunga, made this known at a news conference in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday. The commissioner said “Gov. Nasir Idris has made payment of foreign scholarship…