A Federal High Court today sitting in Portharcourt, Rivers state has dismissed a suit filed by an aspirant of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Morgan West, challenging the candidacy of the party governorship candidate, Siminalaye Fubara.
Chief West had prayed the court to stop Fabura from contesting the 2023...
The Court of Appeal, Yola Division, Adamawa State has affirmed the conviction of Ibrahim Mohammed Umar, a former electoral officer with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Yola South Local Government Area.
Umar and his accomplice had earlier been convicted of a three count charge by an Adamawa State...
The Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of Shedrack Luke Greeson a.k.a Ifaokurola Babalawo, before Justice Musa Usman of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Bwari, Abuja.
Greeson, who was arrested in January, 2021 by operatives of the Commission for defrauding...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has presented two more witnesses in the ongoing trial involving erstwhile governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, and two others: Tanko Beji and Umar Nasko, over alleged diversion of N2bn Ecological Fund.
At the continuation of the hearing on Wednesday, 13 October,...
Two internet fraudsters have been convicted and sentenced to various jail terms, for impersonation, contrary to Section 22 (2) (b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015.
The convictions of Efemene Philip Okoloko and Ugbo Donaldson, on Wednesday, 1 February, 2023 by Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba to three months in prison for disobeying a court order.
Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon, delivered the ruling Tuesday, 29 November 2022.
TheFact Daily learns that the order followed a suit filed by a former police officer, Patrick...
The trial of Fred Ajudua for allegedly obtaining money to the tune of $8.4m, suffered another setback, as his lawyer, Olalekan Ojo, SAN, sought an adjournment before Justice Josephine Oyefeso of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ajah, Lagos.
Ajudua allegedly swindled a former Chief of Army Staff, Ishaya...
The Supreme Court has upheld the 10-year prison term imposed on former Plateau Governor, Joshua Dariye, who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, for fraud.
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on November 16, 2018 affirmed the ruling of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, which...
The federal government of Nigeria has declared that it won’t immediately pay the ₦20billion awarded against it by the court over the invasion of Sunday Igboho’s residence by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS.
Disclosing this earlier today, September 17, in an interview granted to the News Agency...
A federal high court sitting in Abuja has nullified the passage of the N800 billion 2024 Rivers State budget by five lawmakers led by the former Speaker, Hon. Hon. Edison Ehie.
In the judgment delivered on Monday by the presiding Judge, James Omotoso, the court ordered the Rivers Governor, Siminalayi...
