President Buhari Signs Executive Order on Financial Autonomy of State Legislature, Judiciary

Law & JusticeNigeriaPoliticsPresident Buhari Signs Executive Order on Financial Autonomy of State Legislature, Judiciary

PilotnewsMay 23, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed into law Executive Order Number 10 of 2020 for the implementation of Financial Autonomy of State Legislature and State Judiciary. Dr Umar Gwandu, Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice on Media and Public Relations disclosed this on Friday in Abuja. The President signed the Executive Order based on the powers vested in him as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria...

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Slain Journalist Khashoggi’s Sons Say They Forgive Their Father’s Killers

Law & JusticeWorld NewsSlain Journalist Khashoggi’s Sons Say They Forgive Their Father’s Killers

PilotnewsMay 22, 2020

A son of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered inside Riyadh’s consulate in Turkey in 2018, on Friday said he and his brothers have forgiven his father’s killers. “We, the sons of martyr Jamal Khashoggi, announce we have forgiven whoever killed our father for the sake of God. “We deeply hope that God Almighty will reward us for this,’’ Salah Khashoggi, who lives in Saudi Arabia, tweeted. The gesture was announced as the...

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UPDATE: Housewife, 18, Says She killed Husband to Avoid Defilement

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPeopleUPDATE: Housewife, 18, Says She killed Husband to Avoid Defilement

PilotnewsMay 22, 2020

A housewife, Salma Hassan, 18, who allegedly stabbed her husband to death, has said that she did that because she didn’t know that sex was part of marital obligations. Salma, who is being detained by the Police Command in Bauchi, told newsmen that she killed her husband, Mohammed Mustafa, because she thought he was “just trying to defile me”. “I didn’t know that sex is a marital obligation. On that day, when he approached me...

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Nigerian Government Threatens to Prosecute Citizens with Foreign Properties Who Evade Tax

InvestingLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaNigerian Government Threatens to Prosecute Citizens with Foreign Properties Who Evade Tax

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 22, 2020

The Federal Government of Nigeria had threatened to prosecute its citizens who were not paying tax on their properties in foreign countries. This was made known in a statement signed by the spokesperson of the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), Umar Gwandu on Thursday. The statement also stated that any bank or intermediary that helps any Nigerian citizen to shield such property would pay the fine which is equivalent to the cost...

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How a 17 Year Old Teenage Wife Kills Her Husband in Bauchi

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPeopleHow a 17 Year Old Teenage Wife Kills Her Husband in Bauchi

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)May 22, 2020

Salma Hassan, a 17-year-old teenage wife has been paraded before the Bauchi State Police Command for stabbing her husband to death. Salma who hails from Itas Gadau Local Government Area of Bauchi, has on Thursday confessed to having stabbed her husband, Mohammed Mustapha with a knife to death for attempting to have sex with her without her consent. The suspect, Salma Hassan, told journalists after been paraded alongside other suspects by the Bauchi State Police...

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Court Remands Man Over Alleged Theft of 50 Gallons of Palm Oil

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaCourt Remands Man Over Alleged Theft of 50 Gallons of Palm Oil

PilotnewsMay 21, 2020

An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun on Thursday remanded one Timothy Elugbindin, 44, over alleged robbery of 50 gallons of palm oil at gunpoint. The Prosecutor, Asp. Joseph Adebayo told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 10, 2020, around 5 a.m., at Odemuyiwa Village via Ifetedo. Adebayo said that the defendant conspired with others now at large to commit felony to wit: Armed Robbery. He added that the defendant armed himself...

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Court Sentences Bricklayer, Mechanic to 21 Years in Prison for Bag-Snatching

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaCourt Sentences Bricklayer, Mechanic to 21 Years in Prison for Bag-Snatching

PilotnewsMay 21, 2020

An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a bricklayer, Ibrahim Olaore and a mechanic, Nurudeen Moshood to 21 years in prison for snatching the handbag of a banker in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that during Thursday’s virtual proceeding, Justice Yetunde Adesanya held that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and found the defendants guilty of a two-count charge of conspiracy and robbery. “Section 297(1) of the Criminal Law of...

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Members of Abacha’s Government Knew About the Money Stashed Abroad – Buba Galadima

Law & JusticeMoneyNewsNigeriaMembers of Abacha’s Government Knew About the Money Stashed Abroad – Buba Galadima

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)May 18, 2020

Buba Galadima, a Nigerian politician, has said that key members of the late General Sani Abacha’s government knew about the money the dictator stashed abroad. Mr. Galadima, a former ally – turned critic — of President Buhari revealed this in an interview with the Nation newspaper. He said the late Gen. Abacha was ‘rightly’ counselled by then Presidents Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, to keep money abroad in order to survive sanctions by the United...

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Rwanda Genocide Suspect Arrested in France

Law & JusticeNewsWorld NewsRwanda Genocide Suspect Arrested in France

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 17, 2020

One of the most wanted suspects of the Rwanda Genocide, Félicien Kabuga, had been arrested near Paris. This was announced by the French Justice Ministry on Saturday. According to the BBC, the gendarmes in Asnières-Sur-Seine had detained Mr. Kabuga, who was reported to have been living under a false identity in the area. The 84-year old Kabuga had been charged for genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He was...

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Iran Sentences French Academic to Six Years in Prison: Lawyer

Law & JusticeNewsPeopleWorld NewsIran Sentences French Academic to Six Years in Prison: Lawyer

PilotnewsMay 16, 2020

Iran has sentenced French-Iranian academic, Fariba Adelkhah, to six years in prison on national security charges, her lawyer said on Saturday. “The court has sentenced her to six years. “We have appealed and if accepted, the sentence will drop to five years,’’ Adelkhah’s lawyer, Saeed Dehghan, told Reuters. Iran dropped spying charges against Adelkhah but she remained in jail on other security-related charges, Dehghan said in March. Iran has rejected France’s call to release Adelkhah,...

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