Legal Matters

The federal government has filed fresh criminal charges against Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), over alleged use...

The Federal High Court, Abuja Division, on Tuesday, granted an application filed by the Federal Government to prosecute five suspects...

The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation has withdrawn the criminal charge filed against senior advocate, Mike Ozekhome,...

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Monday adjourned the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the alleged...

A 43-year-old woman, Fausat Adekanbi, who allegedly stood as guarantor for a friend to obtain a N500,000 loan, was on...

The police on Monday charged a 45-year-old security guard, Ismail Obafunsho, before the Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun for breaking...

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, adjourned the trial of Abubakar Malami, former Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF,...

  The State Security Service, SSS, will on Feb 25, arraign former Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on alleged...

  A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday, sentenced three men to various jail terms for stealing...

Dauda Sulaiman, the second defendant in the ongoing trial of the Chief of Staff to Ahmed Usman Ododo, Ali Bello,...

Deputy foreign affairs minister Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on Tuesday, reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to constructive engagement with the ECOWAS court. Ms Odumegwu-Ojukwu,...

A witness of the State Security Service (SSS), on Tuesday, told the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court that...

  A farm attendant, Solatope Salako, 34, on Tuesday, appeared before the Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan over the alleged...

  The Federal High Court in Abuja has slated February 24 to commence hearing of a suit that seeks to...

A witness, Richard Agulu(a former Zenith Bank staff member, testified that he never received any money from directly former Central...

  Two herders, Abubakar Lawal, 18, and Ibrahim Abubakar, 20, on Monday appeared before the Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan...

The Federal Government has filed charges against the former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. The charge, marked C2/99/2026 and dated...

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced four persons to death by hanging over...

The Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered the remand of a 30-year-old man, Oluwaseun Opatola, at the Kirikiri Correctional...

  The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, adjourned hearing in a suit filed by a human rights lawyer,...

  A High Court, Ibadan Division, Oyo State, on Thursday dismissed a no-case submission filed by Mukaila Lamidi, popularly known...

Justice Obiora Egwuatu, on Thursday, recused (withdrew) himself from the two cases filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,...

  The trial of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, continued on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, before Justice Maryanne...

The Federal Road Safety Corps has secured a two-month jail term, without the option of a fine, for a traffic...

  A 22-year-old loan officer, Olamide Busari, was on Wednesday arraigned before the Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun for stealing...

A prosecution witness, PW17, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and Deputy Superintendent of the EFCC,...

The police has arraigned three men before an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday for...

Rabiu-Rangers Abdullahi, a witness, on Monday told the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, that David Daure attempted to use Yusuf...

The Cross River chapter of the Magistrates Association of Nigeria (MAN), on Monday, resumed its suspended industrial action over government’s...

A prosecution witness, Emmanuel Onwuzurike, on Monday testified in the FCT High Court about how money was moved from companies,...

The African Alliance Party (AAP) has issued a two-week ultimatum to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register it...

  The court of appeal in Abuja has ruled that the senate acted within its constitutional powers when it suspended...

  The Kano State Refuse Management and Sanitation Board (REMASAB), in collaboration with the Mobile Environmental Sanitation Court, has sealed...

The police on Friday arraigned a 22-year-old man, Dayo Shonekan, before the Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun for allegedly entering...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness, Olomotane Egoro, on Thursday, maintained that the name of a former governor...

The police in Oyo State on Thursday dragged six men before an Igboora Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, over alleged land...

A magistrate’s court in Jos on Thursday convicted and sentenced 22-year-old trader, Moses Baba, to six months at the correctional...

The convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a notice of appeal at the...

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, FHC, Justice John Tsoho, has re-assigned the money laundering case and the...

An Area Court sitting at Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the seven years Islamic marriage between Mukaila Zainab and...