•Trump The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial fined the former president yesterday for defying a gag order and warned that further violations could see him thrown in jail. Trump, 77, is accused of falsifying business records to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment made to porn star […]...
•Former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose The money laundering trial of a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, could not proceed today owing to the absence of the trial judge, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos. Justice Aneke was said to be away on an official assignment, prompting the adjournment of [&hel...
•Nnamdi Kanu and his lawyers Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has threatened to adjourn indefinitely the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu should he insist on further delaying the commencement of the trial. Earlier today, Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor had stated some conditions [&hel...
Justice Hamza Muazu of an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, yesterday, berated authorities of the Federal Capital Territory Administration for disobeying an order of the court that restrained them from demolishing an estate owned by Praco International Ltd. The multi-billion naira estate located in the Asokoro/Kugbo axis of the FCT is being...
•Former US President Donald Trump A Georgia judge ruled today that the district attorney who brought 2020 election interference charges against Donald Trump can remain on the case if her lead prosecutor steps aside. The former president and his co-defendants had been seeking to have District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified — a move which lik...
•Wike, Fubara, Tinubu Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court Abuja, today, warned Governor Siminalayi Fubara not to “exceed his power” as Rivers State governor. Omotosho said the court is against any plan to jeopardise democracy, and thereby declared that the governor, by himself or by members of the staff of the Rivers State [&helli...
•Judge Holthus cradling her head after the attack A convicted criminal attacked and assaulted a Las Vegas judge during a hearing after she refused to grant him bail. Convicted offender Deobra Delone Redden attacked Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus yesterday as she was in the middle of giving a sentence. The moment […]...
•Justice Joy Unwana Five days after their abduction along the Okobo-Esuk Inwang-Ndon Ebom road in Akwa Ibom, Justice Joy Unwana of Oron High Court, Akwa Ibom and her driver have regained their freedom. The duo were abducted on Monday. Justice Unwana’s orderly was killed by the abductors during the incident, reports The Nation. Akwa Ibom [&hell...
•Gunmen Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a High Court judge, Justice Joy Unwana, and her driver in the Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that her police orderly was killed during the incident which occurred yesterday along the Uyo-Okobo road which leads to Oron town, reports The Nation. […]
The controversy over the suspension of 26 lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly took a new dimension today as Lawyers for Defence of Democracy, called on the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, to investigate the alleged secret ex-parte order issued on Friday by Justice Donatus Okorowo, stopping the […]