A legal practitioner, Mike Chigozie Egbo, has dragged the Nigerian Bar Association, its President Afam Osigwe, the NBA Keffi Branch, and two of its officials before the High Court of Nasarawa State sitting in Akwanga, alleging breach of his fundamental […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) announced that 974 offenders were convicted and sentenced to various jail terms during the first quarter of 2026, including 11 drug kingpins who received a combined 254 years of imprisonment. This occurred as […]
By Moronke Boboye A 22-year-old delivery agent, Samuel Uchenna, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for allegedly stealing nine iPhones valued at nine million naira. The defendant, who resides at 58, Jamiu Crescent, Baruwa, in Ipaja, […]
Celebrity Nigerian cryptocurrency entrepreneur Linus Williams Ifejirika, popularly known as Blord, has been granted bail after spending weeks in Kuje prison over alleged impersonation of social media commentator Martins Vincent Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan. The development was disclosed by […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has faulted the authenticity of the Nigerian passport tendered in the London proceedings in the dispute over a property traced to a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the late General Jeremiah Useni. […]
A 63-year-old cleric, Chris Douglas, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja for raping a church member’s daughter. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Rahman Oshodi held that Douglas, who is the […]
THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION, CALABAR BRANCH (DOYEN BAR) ANNUAL LAW WEEK, 2026. A NOTE OF FELICITATION OKEY LEO OHAGBA I write to extend my warmest felicitation to the Enome Amatey led Executive, Law Week Planning Committee, and the entire leadership […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq. The court, in a ruling delivered by […]
The Nigeria Police Force has extradited a fugitive, Matthew Chukwuemeka Adebiyi, to the United Kingdom over alleged involvement in murder and drug trafficking. The extradition was carried out through the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja, following a formal request […]
A UK court has sentenced a Nigerian couple, Luciana and Femi Akanbi, to prison terms after they were found guilty of a £433,000 tax fraud linked to the misuse of employee data stolen from Transport for London (TfL). The couple […]