Ugwuanyi Inaugurates Justice Centus Nweze Moot Court UNEC, 34 Customary Courts In Enugu

ENUGU — The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Friday inaugurated a Moot Court in the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, UNEC, and 34 other Customary Courts across the 17 LGAs in the state. The Moot Court in Faculty of Law UNEC was named after Hon. Justice Chime Centus Nweze of the Supreme Court. Commending the Faculty of Law for the provision of the Moot Court and other facilities appropriate for students’ academics and training,...

Baba Ijesha Pleads Not Guilty, Claims Princess Framed Him Because He Broke Up With Her

LAGOS — Embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James popularly known as Baba Ijesha on Friday, March 4, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that comedienne, Damilola Adekoya, aka Princess, is his former lover, as his trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor who is the foster child of his colleague, Princess resumed. Testifying in court, Baba Ijesha who is facing six counts bordering on allegations of indecent treatment of a child, sexual assault, attempted sexual assault...

Police Arrested 36 Suspected Terrorists

ABUJA — Police have arrested 36 suspected terrorists and 388 over alleged murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism in the last two months. The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, said the suspects were arrested during various police operations across the country. He made this known in Abuja during a meeting with Strategic Police Managers, consisting of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) and Commissioners of Police (CPs), explained that 78 were arrested over murder, 110 armed...

Fake Medical Doctor Arrested In Gombe

The Gombe state Commissioner of Police Babatunde Ishola Babaita has paraded a 36-year old fake medical doctor, an employee of a popular specialist clinic in the state capital. Babaita, said luck ran out of the suspect Vincent Edesine from Ekpoma in Edo State when his principal noticed irregularities in his official conduct. “When the medical director of the clinic noticed that he (Vincent) could not satisfactorily discharge his assigned duties, he called for verification of...

FG Agrees to Extradite Abba Kyari to U.S Over $1.1m Wire Fraud Involving Him, Hushpuppi, Four Others

ABUJA — The Federal Government has agreed to extradite the suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari as requested by the United States of America. The US in its request demanded the extradition of Kyari over alleged $1.1million wire fraud involving Abass Ramon, popularly known as Hushpuppi, and four others. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), made this known in an...

Senate Approves Financial Autonomy For State legislatures, Judiciary, Local Governments

ABUJA — The Senate on Tuesday has approved financial autonomy for state legislatures, judiciary and local governments in Nigeria, but rejected pension for presiding officers of the legislature. Also rejected were bills to override Presidential veto in Constitution Alteration and to override Presidential veto in respect of ordinary money bills. Similarly, the Senate, rejected bills to provide for the Removal of Presiding Officers of the Legislature; and to Change the name of Barikin Ladi Local...

18-Year-Old Girl Kidnap Teenager For Ritualists In Mubi

YOLA — An 18-year-old girl, Blessing John of Michika Local Government Area, Adamawa who abducted a 9-year-old Elkanah Samuel was arrested by the Police in Adamawa while eyeing a ritualist to sell a boy she kidnapped. Elkanah was declared missing on the 19th February 2022 by his parents and all effort to locate his whereabouts proved futile, until on the 21st February 2022 when the girl who abducted him was arrested with the boy in...

Billionaire Kidnapper, Two Others Jailed For Life

LAGOS — A High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, popularly called Evans, and two others to life imprisonment for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru. The presiding judge, Justice Hakeem Oshodi found Evans, Uche Amadi, and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu guilty of a two-count charge of kidnapping the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu. Handing down the sentence, Justice Oshodi noted the allocutors of the defence counsels, Olarewaju...

Forgery: Court Jail Doctor For Two Years

LAGOS — The Lagos State Special Offenses Court in Ikeja has convicted and sentenced a medical practitioner, Wilfred Fajemisin to two years imprisonment for fraud and forgery. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo jailed Dr. Fajemisin after she found him guilty of the three-count charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was alleged to have forged about 15 documents including the ‘Deed of Assignment’ of an estate belonging to one late Ashamu....

Judges In Yobe Warns Against Engaging In Corrupt Practices

DAMATURU, (YOBE) — The Chief Judge of Yobe State, Justice Gumna Kashim Kaigama has warned Magistrates and Sharia Court Alkalis against engaging in corrupt practices and other misconducts while discharging their official duties. Justice Kaigama gave the warning at the swearing-in of the newly appointed Chief Registrar of the High Court of Justice, 14 Magistrates, and 22 Sharia Court Alkalis held at the headquarters of the High Court in Damaturu, the state capital. “I need...

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