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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed the suit filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Kwara State’s, candidate in the April 11, 2015 gubernatorial election, Senator Simeon Ajibola challenging the election of Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the governor of the State. In their suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/688/2015, the PDP and its ...
Court Cases
April, 2016
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16 April
Adenuga’s son, Baby Mama , in court over daughter’s custody
An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos has granted custody rights to Eniola, son of multi-billionaire businessman, Mike Adenuga, over his 16-month old daughter. But his girlfriend with whom he had the child, Maggie Ogun, a pharmacist, has sought the court’s leave to appeal the order. Chief Magistrate O. A. Ogunbowale dismissed Ogun’s objection that Adenuga cannot take adequate care of ...
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9 April
Dangote , Dantata , Saraki,Named In Panama Tax Invasion Scandal..Dangote Denies
Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, is facing scrutiny after he became linked, on Friday, with alleged tax evasion when his name became associated with the world’s biggest tax scandal as contained in the Panama Papers. The name of his half-brother Sayyu Dantata has also become caught up in the scandal. The Panama Papers leak, which involved the disclosure of ...
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6 April
Missing kids found dead on church premises
There was panic at Matogun, in the Lambe area of Ogun State on Tuesday after the police recovered corpses of two missing pupils from a church in the community, Christ Crusaders’ Deliverance Ministry. The deceased – six-year-old Isaac Ayegbo, a primary 2 pupil, and Ayomide Innocent, 4, who was in Nursery 1 – were reportedly found inside the church’s vehicle ...
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6 April
Saraki CCT Trial : 2 Aides Logged Looted Funds [700,000] 70 Times A Day
The trial has opened before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in the case against Senate President Bukola Saraki, after his last-minutes attempt to stay proceedings failed. Saraki, who is facing a 13-count false assets declaration charge, was arraigned before the tribunal late last year. The prosecution has been unable to open the trial in view of the several hurdles ...
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4 April
POLICE ARRESTS RUNAWAY PASTOR WHO BURIED MEN ALIVE IN CHURCH FOUNDATION
Police on Friday arrested suspected Pastor who caused a stir when three dead bodies were discovered under the foundation of his new church building in Enugu State. The strange discovery of dead bodies buried in shallow graves under the foundation of a popular church located at the Ugwuaji area along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, in January, 2016, has caused serious ...
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4 April
UNCOVERED ! The Hidden Assets That Put Saraki In CCB Palava
The lid has been blown off the hidden and undeclared assets by SENATE president,olubukola Saraki ..Four assets belonging to the wealthy and famous Saraki family of Nigeria, all tucked away in secret offshore territories, have been uncovered. But the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, failed to declare them to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) as required by Nigerian ...
March, 2016
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31 March
Uneasy Calmness In Shell Nigeria As Dutch Probes Malabu Deal
Royal Dutch Shell yesterday said Dutch investigators visited its headquarters in the Hague over an investigation into a the controversial Nigerian offshore oil field located in oil prospecting licence (OPL) 245 retrieved from Malabu Oil over allegations of fraud in award of the oil block, and later sold to Shell and Eni. A Shell spokesman in Nigeria, Precious Okolobo, confirmed ...
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30 March
Proprietor gets 10-year jail term for raping 10-year-old girl
An Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State High Court on Tuesday sentenced a school proprietor, Ibitoye Babatunde, to 10 years imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the convict is the proprietor of God is Great Nursery and Primary school, Ado-Ekiti. In his judgment, Justice Mosun Abodunde said that the prosecution had established the case of rape ...
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25 March
Again, CCT Okays Jurisdiction For Saraki’s Trial
The Code of Conduct Tribunal on Thursday dismissed the motion by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, seeking to quash the 13 counts of false and anticipatory asset declaration preferred against him. The Danladi Umar-led tribunal resolved all the issues raised by the Senate President against him and affirmed that it had jurisdiction to hear the case. Umar, who read ...
