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The money laundering trial of a former Minister of State for Power, Muhammad Wakil has been adjourned by the Federal High Court sitting in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital till November 4, 2021 Wakil, is standing trial with…

‎An Abuja Federal High Court on Wednesda rejected the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s request to issue a warrant of arrest against a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. Dieziani is…

‎The Court of Appeal has declared the Police Act 2020 as unconstitutional ‎as it affects the constitutional mandate of the Police Service Commission. The Act was enacted in September this year. The court ruled that the…

Former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja seeking for the nullification of his indictment contained in the February 25, 2020 judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja…

‎ ‎A Lagos Federal High Court has ordered a temporary freezing of three bank accounts belonging to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa. The order followed an ex parte motion filed by the Economic and…

‎A High Court sitting in Jos on Tuesday dismissed an application by a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Obadiah Mailafia, seeking to stop the Nigeria Police Force from investigating him. ‎ ‎Mailafia had…

An Abuja High Court, on Monday, awarded N50m damages against the senator representing Adamawa North, Elisha Abbo for beating up a female attendant at a sex toy shop. Justice Samira Bature, in her judgment, ordered the Senator…

United Nations human rights experts have called on Nigerian authorities to immediately release a 22-year-old singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, sentenced to death over an allegedly blasphemous song shared on social media. The experts…

Governors of the 36 States of the federation have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari to the Supreme Court over the Presidential Executive Order No. 00-10 of 2020 which he signed in May this year. The governors lamented that the…

The National Industrial Court has restrained the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), their officers, affiliates and privies from embarking on any strike or stoppage of work from Monday September, 28 2020.…