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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of Nwachi Chidozie Kingsley for obtaining $205,238 from an American, Nicole Kierulff Sayers, under false pretence. Justice U.P. Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Maitama, Abuja, convicted Kingsley on Thursday, October 29, 2026, and sentenced him to seven…
Justice Lesley Wike of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, has threatened to issue arrest warrant against a former President of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Staff Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society, Olalekan Ogunbayo for his absence in Court to take plea in alleged ₦582M Fraud charges. The Judge issued the…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr James Ogwu Onoja has warned social media commentators and bloggers to stop dishing out false narratives in a $2.1M civil suit instituted against Barrister Jordan Nyesom Wike by one Safwan Garba in respect of Abuja land matter. The lawyer warned that any commentator and blogger who continued…
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Garki has cleared an Abuja-based lawyer, Dr. Ted Iseghohi-Edwards of any criminal conduct in the services he rendered to the 774 Local Governments in relation to the London and Paris Clubs refunds. Iseghohi-Edwards was retained by the Incorporated Trustees of the Association of Local…
A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Christopher Odofin admitted on Tuesday at the FCT High Court that the former Chairman of the Tenders Board of the Federal Ministry of Aviation, Mr Abel Enitan, who awarded the contract for the expansion of the Katsina Airport Apron Extension, was not put…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, Akinlolu Kehinde has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the persistent demand by Omoyele Sowore that the Director General of the Department of State Services (DG, DSS), Tosin Ajayi must appear in person to testify as a witness in the Cyberbullying President Bola Tinubu charges against…
A legal practitioner, Obunike Calistus Ohaegbu has dragged the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), before the Federal High Court in Abuja, over the refusal of the party’s national leadership to announce the result of the primary election conducted for Nnewi North/Newi South/Ekwusigo Federal Constituency, of Anambra state. The aggrieved lawyer in his suit he filed…
The Federal Highway Court has asked the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore to continue his defence on October 2 in the alleged cyber-bullying case brought against the politician by the Department of State Services (DSS). There were social media reports last month that the DSS would, upon the resumption…
A witness of the Department of State Service in the ongoing trial of alleged Ansaru terror group members on Friday told the Federal High Court in Abuja, that their abductors left them to starve during the ordeal. The witness code-named AAA who was one of the victims of the Orire school abduction said that…
A witness for the Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday told the Federal High Court in Abuja how 49 students and teachers abducted from schools in Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State were subjected to what she described as a “dehumanising” ordeal during 56 days in captivity. The witness, identified as AAA…
