The Federal High Court will on July 27, proceed on its annual long vacation for the year 2020, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. In a circular issued by the Chief Judge of the Court, Justice John Tsoho, notifying the General public, the long vacation is to commence from Monday July 27, and end on Friday Sept. 25 while court activities are to resume on Monday Sept. 28. The vacation is made in pursuant...

The Presidency says the ongoing interrogation of the embattled acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, is to clear himself of weight allegations levelled against him. A presidency source, who preferred not to be named, told State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday that the probe of the anti-graft boss was an affirmation that nobody under “the present administration is above scrutiny’’. The source, who could neither confirm nor deny...

An Abeokuta High Court in Ogun on Tuesday sentenced one Lukeman Kuti to death by hanging for armed robbery. Kuti, who was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery, had pleaded not guilty to the charge. But delivering judgment, Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun said that all the evidences tendered had convinced the court beyond reasonable doubt that the convict committed the offences. She, thereafter, sentenced Kuti to death by hanging. Earlier at the...

Sixteen-year-old Aishat who got pregnant and gave birth to a child after she was gang-raped by four men at a bus park in Surulere, Lagos and later tested positive to COVID-19, will receive support from the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development and the Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA). Aishat was abandoned in Lagos by a woman who brought her from Saki in Oyo State, The West African Pilot reported. The Commissioner...

The trial of a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, and a firm, Spotless Investment Limited, was suddenly obstructed by the inability of the prosecution to bring its witness to court on Monday. The Punch reported that the prosecuting counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), told Justice C.J. Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos that a relative of the witness scheduled to come had been admitted...