Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, will today, Wednesday, June 11, hear the substantive suit challenging the proposed sale of Lafarge Africa Plc. to Chinese firm, Huaxin Cement Limited. The hearing was fixed following the dismissal of a motion filed by Lafarge Africa and its parent company, Holcim Group, challenging the court’s jurisdiction to...
•The suspects A Magistrate Court sitting in Bolade Oshodi yesterday remanded 34 persons in prison custody till July 22, 2025 for engaging in street trading along the median of the Alaba Rago, Ojo, on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. The arraigned persons made up of 32 males and two females were arrested over the weekend in an […]
•The convicted fellows Justice D. E. Osiagor of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced nine Chinese nationals to one-year imprisonment each for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud, following their arrest in a major sting operation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. According to a statement today via X ...
•Trump and Harvard University A court yesterday put a temporary stay on Donald Trump’s latest effort to stop foreign students from enrolling at Harvard, as the US president’s battle with one of the world’s most prestigious universities intensified. A proclamation issued by the White House late Wednesday sought to bar most new international stu...
•Prof Pat Utomi and DSS operatives The Federal High Court in Abuja has been urged to restrain the 2007 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Patrick Okedinachi Utomi (also known as Prof. Pat Utomi) from further making public comments or engaging in rallies in relation to the subject of a suit pending against [&hellip...
•Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan The suspended senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District of Kogi State, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, will appear in court on Tuesday, as summoned. This was confirmed by her lead counsel, West Idahosa (SAN), yesterday, reports The PUNCH. Idahosa, however, expressed uncertainty about whether the federal go...
•The entrance to Water Street, scene of the incident in Liverpool, north-west England. A former British Marine appeared in court for the first time today charged with allegedly driving his car into crowds celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League win, leaving 79 people injured. Paul Doyle faces seven charges including dangerous driving and causin...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to order the removal of Rep Oluwole Oke as lawmaker representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency of Osun for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP, in a fresh suit filed today by its lead counsel, Raphael Oyewole, prayed the court to […]
A Grade ‘A’ Customary Court sitting in Mapo in Ibadan has ordered that two brothers, Usman, 20, and Toheeb Wasiu, 26, should be remanded in the correctional centre for allegedly insulting a police officer. They pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of conspiracy and breach of peace filed against them, reports NAN. The President […]...
Twenty-three years after, a Kano Upper Shari’a Court has acquitted a man charged with manslaughter after it discovered that the charges put against him are not in order. Sabi’u Aliyu Unguwa Uku was arraigned before the court sitting in RijiyarLemo in 2002 with a charge of manslaughter after he crushed a cyclist, Ibrahim Wada Musa. […]...