The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday sentenced four of the five defendants being prosecuted for their involvement in the 2022 terror attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Ondo State, to death by hanging. Judge Emeka Nwite, in a judgment, held that the Department of State Services …
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The Federal High Court (FHC) says its registries in all the divisions of the court will officially be open to lawyers on weekends and public holidays for filing of pre-election cases. The Chief Registrar of FHC, Yahaya Shafa, made this known on Thursday in Abuja in a statement titled: “Notice …
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A Federal High Court in Lagos has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a lawyer and others charged with obtaining money by false pretences. The defendants, Ayo Adelaja, Quattro Architects Ltd and Ejeta Etuoniyo are being prosecuted by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the police. Justice Yellin …
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A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has restrained the directors of Retail Supermarkets Nigeria Limited (ShopRite) from selling the company’s shares or assets pending the satisfaction of a judgment debt. Newsextra24 reports that the presiding judge, Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa, also directed the directors, including Jide Ogundare, to disclose all movable and …
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A former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGoF), Chukwunyere Nwabuoku, has been handed down a jail term of eight years, over offences bordering on fraud and corruption. He was sentenced on Monday by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who found him guilty in all the nine …
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THE Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced Mahmud Usman, one of the proscribed terrorist organisation, Ansaru, to a 15-year imprisonment for illegal mining activities. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order after Usman, a.k.a Abu Bara’a/Abbas Mukhtar, pleaded guilty to count 10 of the 32-count terrorism charge …
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THE Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, granted bail to Mrs Veronica Ekeh, who is standing trial for alleged human trafficking, setting the bail amount at N10 million. The court, however, remanded her husband, who is also standing trial with her on the same allegations, in prison. The trial judge, …
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THE Federal High Court will begin its 2025 annual vacation from July 28 to Sept. 16. A statement from the court’s Director of Information, Mrs Catherine Oby Christopher made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja said that the court would resume sitting on Sept. …
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A Federal High Court in Kaduna has ordered former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, and five others to pay N900 million in damages for the unlawful detention of Adara community elders in 2019. Delivering the judgement on Tuesday, Justice Hauwa’u Buhari ruled in favour of a suit filed by …
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THE Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has ordered the immediate redeployment of five judges in various divisions of the court. The move comes just weeks after the National Judicial Council (NJC) sanctioned several judges for various acts of judicial misconduct. According to a statement released …
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