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A federal high court sitting in Ibadan has sentenced a couple to 40 years imprisonment each. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick and his wife, Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle were sentenced ...

A state high court sitting in Owerri has nullified the impeachment of former Deputy Governor of Imo State, Jude Agbaso. Recall that Agbaso was impeached on March 28, 2013, during ...

Court has sentenced an Ex-Oyo court registrar already serving a jail term to fresh three years in prison over a dud cheque. WITHIN NIGERIA gathered that the anti-graft agency on ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja, to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from implementing “draconian and unlawful provisions” of the Companies ...

A Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos has granted bail to the 40 protesters arraigned before it by the Nigerian Police on Saturday evening. The protesters, who were arrested at ...

Polluted Nigerian communities can sue Royal Dutch Shell, a British-Dutch oil company in English courts for pollution, United Kingdom Supreme Court rules. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the decisions of the ...

A Magistrates Court in Lagos State has ordered that a DNA paternity test be conducted on the daughter of a Yoruba movie star, Ronke Odusanya. M. O. Tanimola, the magistrate, ...

A Central Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos on Friday sentenced a 15-year-old student to six months in prison for stealing two dogs. A panel of two magistrates, ...

A Federal High Court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, has sacked the Fred Udogu-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee. The court described the committee as illegal. The court also ordered ...

Police have arraigned a 35-year-old security guard identified as Patrick Akpan before the Lagos Magistrate Court in Yaba for allegedly beating his three-year-old daughter to death on December 27. 2020. Recall ...

Mrs Chidiebele Julian Nweke Onyia, a female reporter with Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Network Centre in Port Harcourt has been abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt ...

Bank accounts linked to some promoters of #EndSARS protest which were freezed following an order a federal high court in Abuja made on November 4, 2020 have been unfreezed by ...

An 11-year-old special needs child, has reportedly been brutally beaten by a teacher in Port Harcourt, leaving him with marks on his body. Juliet Ocheze, a lady on Facebook shared ...

Lagos court has remanded popular Nigerian singer, Sanni Wasiu popularly known as Lil frosh at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre till March 9, 2021 over the alleged assault on his girlfriend, Okeoghene ...

An Osogbo Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, remanded two persons, Saliu Saheed and Azees Rafiu for allegedly stealing 18 bags of maize and 1032 chickens. The prosecutor, Jacob Akintunde, told the ...

A Gabasawa Chief Magistrate Court on Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Kaduna heard on Monday from police witnesses that there was no sex party on December 27, 2020 at Asher Restaurant and ...

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday temporary halted the re-trial of former Abia Governor, Sen. Orji Kalu, on alleged corruption charges. Justice Ekwo temporarily stayed ...

A 42-year-old businessman identified as Olayinka Oyeniyi, on Monday told an Igando Customary Court sitting in Lagos State that his wife, Sekinat was promiscuous and has slept with many men. ...

The Ekiti state government through the state Ministry of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, over the police officer, Omolola Olajide, who was ...

Two young girls who were arrested by the Nigerian police in April 2020 for allegedly hiring assassins to kill their father, have been reportedly sentenced to death. After series of ...