The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, December 23, 2024, arraigned the Managing Director of Atlantic International Refinery and Petrochemical Limited, Akindele Akintoye at the Federal High Court, Abuja, over an alleged $35 million fraud. He was arraigned before…
Paul Pogba’s brother sentenced to prison over extortion
A Paris court on Thursday sentenced a brother of France midfielder Paul Pogba to a three-year prison term, with two years suspended, after convicting him in a high-profile extortion case. Mathias Pogba will be able to serve his one-year sentence…
Demolition: Court awards N8.5bn damages against Kano Gov’t
A Kano State high court has awarded the sum of N8,511,000,000 damages against the Kano State Government in favour of Lamash Properties Limited, owner of the buildings demolished by the state governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf. The court also gave an…
Ex-Gov Bello gets fresh N500m bail from Abuja court
The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who has been in prison detention since December 10, on Thursday, secured fresh N500million bail from a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Maitama. The court,…
Man arraigned for stealing Okada spare parts
A 34-year old man, Kabiru Isyaka, was on Wednesday arraigned before a Sharia Court in Kano over alleged theft of motorcycle parts worth N800,000. Isyaka, who resides at Darmanawa Quarters, Kano, is being charged with theft, to which he pleaded…
Tech consultant found guilty of stabbing Cash App founder to death
A tech consultant has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the brutal fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee. IT consultant Nima Momeni, 40, was convicted by a San Francisco jury on Tuesday in the stabbing that happened…
Court grants Yahaya Bello N500m bail
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday granted bail to the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in the sum of N500 million, with two sureties in like sum. This followed the former governor’s plea of not…
Alleged ₦80bn fraud: Court grants Yahaya Bello ₦500m bail
The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello to the tune of ₦500 million. Justice Emeka Nwite who presided over the court session on Friday ordered that the former…
Court Adjourns Ganduje’s bribery, misappropriation case to February 13
A Kano State High Court has adjourned the hearing of preliminary objections in the high-profile bribery and misappropriation case involving the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, and seven others to February 13, 2025. The…
Furniture maker acquitted of raping 4-year-old daughter
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday discharged and acquitted a 35-year-old upholstery maker, Taiwo Opasina, charged with alleged sexual assault of his four-year-old daughter, (name withheld). The judge in his judgment held…