Legal Matters

Justice Chizoba Orji of an Abuja High Court on Thursday struck out alleged defamation case against the Senator Representing Kogi...

  The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Task force) has apprehended a suspect over the alleged attack and...

The trial of a former governor of Taraba , Darius Ishaku was on Wednesday stalled in a High Court, Abuja...

The Area Court in Jos on Wednesday sentenced Abdullahi Usman to 12 months’ imprisonment for enticing a married woman and...

By Emmanuel Awari-Jalingo Former minister of Defence, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (retd.), has withdrawn the ₦1 billion defamation suit he...

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has fixed February 26 to hear the preliminary objection filed by the...

Two brothers, Ayodeji Afolabi, 21, and Ayomide Afolabi, 23, and their friends, Abdulahi Olarenwaju, 20, and Samson Abayomi, 26, were...

  The Chairman of Dangote Industries, Aliko Dangote, through his legal representative, has filed a formal corruption petition against the...

A Life Camp Magistrates’ Court in Abuja on Thursday, ordered a businessman, Felix Nnandi, to pay the sum of N4.5...

A trader, Salisu Usman, who allegedly received stolen property, on Thursday, was arraigned before a Life Camp Magistrates’ Court, Abuja....

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has rejected Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s request to withdraw his petition against...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, January 6, 2026 ordered the interim forfeiture of 57 properties suspected...

The police on Wednesday arraigned a 29-year-old man, Ayeni Adeyemi, before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged house breaking...

A federal high court in Abuja has granted bail to Abubakar Malami, former attorney-general of the federation (AGF), in the...

  An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, remanded Akinola Amodun, 28, and Nwoko Samuel, 30, over alleged theft of iron...

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, declined to grant a bail application filed by Yakubu Adamu, Commissioner of...

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday, January 2, 2025, further remanded former...

The Kano State Ministry of Justice said it disposed of 614 out of 1,627 criminal cases filed between January and...

Alleged Fraud: Court Admits Bauchi Finance Commissioner Adamu to N500 Million Bail The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court,...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the officials of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), on Friday,...

The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has directed his lawyers to withdraw all ongoing defamation lawsuits against several individuals, saying...

An Abuja High Court has warned the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, against disregarding its...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, arraigned Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, Yakubu Adamu,...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 arraigned Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance and former...

  The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, ordered the interim forfeiture of N1.1 billion allegedly moved out of...

A 32-year-old man, Sodiq Oyerinde, was on Tuesday, charged before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun, for stealing a motorcycle...

The Federal High Court In Abuja on Tuesday ordered the remand of the Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister...

Abuja - Former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, his son, and one other...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will, on Tuesday, arraign former AGF Abubakar Malami on money laundering charges at the...

Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has been charged with money laundering. He will...

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Judicial Division, has granted interim bail to former Attorney-General of the...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it will not recognise the Kabiru Turaki-led National Working Committee of the Peoples...

The Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a 30-year-old man, Anax Isah, who pleaded...

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has ordered the permanent forfeiture of a multibillion-naira expanse of land approved...

  An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded one Carlos Awar (32) and Fortune Awar (30) for allegedly kidnapping one...

  The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an application filed by the Federal Government to reopen a terrorism...

  The Supreme Court, on Friday, dismissed an appeal filed by INEC querying the leadership of the Social Democratic Party...

  A Magistrates’ Court in Jos on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old man, Samuel Emmanuel, to 18 months’ imprisonment for breaking...

A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Gwarinpa, Abuja, has ordered a former Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator...

  The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court has rejected an application by Abubakar Malami, former attorney-general of the federation...