A Federal High Court in Abuja has returned the alleged $9.7 million terrorism financing case involving the Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, Yakubu Adamu, to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court for reassignment to a substantive trial judge. Justice Emeka Nwite, today, ordered that the case file be forwarded to the Chief Judge, [&hel...
•Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro Venezuela’s deposed president, Nicolas Maduro, is scheduled to appear before a federal judge in New York at noon today to be formally notified about the charges against him, the court said. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized by US forces during a pre-dawn raid Saturday in Caracas and […]
•Convicted former prime minister of Malaysia Najib Razak A Malaysian judge sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 15 more years in jail on Friday after convicting him of abuse of power and money laundering in a sovereign wealth fund graft scandal. Najib was also fined 11.4 billion ringgit ($2.8 billion) for his role in […]
•PDP National Chairman Tanimu Turaki The Kabiru Turaki-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Justice Joyce Abdulmalik to recuse herself from the suit filed against the leadership of the party. A faction of the party in the camp of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, led by its acting National Chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman, had filed ...
•The suspect, Mohammed Kumo A magistrate at the Chief Magistrate Court in Gombe State, Mohammed Kumo, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over allegations of extortion and bribery. In a statement yesterday, the anti-graft agency disclosed that Kumo was brought before Justice H.H. Kereng of the Gombe High Court on...
•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu challenges judge in court today Trial Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja today ordered security agents to bundle the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, out of the courtroom, after he insisted that judgement would not be delivered in the terrorism ...
The Federal High Court in Abuja, today, adjourned a suit filed by Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE against Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and others over oil import licence dispute until Nov. 5 for hearing. The matter, which was earlier fixed for today for hearing, could not proceed due to the absence of [&...
•Suspended cop Abba Kyari (R) and NDLEA operative Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP)Abba Kyari and his two brothers today failed in their bid to terminate their ongoing trial for alleged failure to fully disclose their assets. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in the 23-count charge, alleged that Abba Kyari, Mohammed...
•Incarcerated IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu and wife Favour Favour Michael Kanu, wife of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPoB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has pleaded with Justice James Omotosho of the Abuja High Court, presiding over her husband’s trial, not to allow him die in the custody of the Department of State […]
•Gunman A man on trial opened fire in a courtroom in the Albanian capital Tirana today, killing the judge and injuring two others, police said. Appeals court judge Astrit Kalaja was presiding over the man’s case when the man opened fire, police said, adding that the shooter was promptly arrested, reports AFP. “The judge was […]
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