•Igbo masquerades The Igbo-Etiti Local Government in Enugu State has vowed to arrest and prosecute any masquerade caught flogging or molesting women and girls in the area. The council chairman, Dr. Eric Odo disclosed this today during a one-day campaign on the eradication of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the council headquarters, ...
•Some suspected terrorists In December 2024, the Tinubu-led federal government through the office of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre announced it had concluded about 1,743 terrorism-related trials between 2017 and 2024. Addressing journalists in Abuja, the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mohammed Babadoko stated that w...
•Late singer Mohbad The Lagos State Government is set to commence trial into the death of the superstar rapper and songwriter, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as MohBad, one year after. The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lawal Pedro (SAN), disclosed this today, at a press briefing ahead of the upcoming strategic s...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC’s Presiding Officer in the Edo State Governorship election, Obozuwa Josephine, for allegedly allocating non-existent votes to the All Progressives Congress (APC). It also demanded the arrest and prosecutio...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said bank executives are complicit in aiding money laundering in the country, adding that it would commence prosecution soon. Speaking at the 17th annual conference of the Chartered Institute Bankers of Nigeria, the Chairman of the EFCC, Ola Olukoyede said the commission will soon start p...
•Nigerian students The National Association of Nigerian (NANS), today, called of President Bola Ahmed to halt the ongoing prosecution of all #Endbadgovernance protesters currently standing trials. The apex students body, in a statement signed by Comrade Akinteye Afeez Babatunde, President of the Senate, NANS Headquarters, reminded the governme...
•Falana Renowned human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has described the ongoing attempts by former Kogi governor Yahaya Bello to evade arrest and prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as “legally untenable”. He also faulted a court ruling stopping the EFCC from arresting and prosecuting the former Kogi governor. ...
•Donald Trump Donald Trump has no immunity from prosecution as a former president and can be tried on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, a federal appeals court said today in a landmark ruling. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Trump’s claim that […]
•Aishatu Dahiru and Hudu Yunusa-Ari An application by the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Senator Aisha Binani, seeking to stop the prosecution of the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commission, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, has been struck out by an Abuja Federal High Court. The court had previously given an interim...
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