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African Peace Magazine UK Confers Honourary Peace Service Award on Lagos Lawyer, Adesina Adegbite

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Past National Welfare Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Adesina Adegbite FICMC has been conferred with the Honourary Peace Service Award by the African Peace Magazine UK. Mr Adegbite was presented with the award at the Nicon Luxury Hotel, […]

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N11.79b scam: Lawyers name more Ajetunmobi couple’s ‘victims’

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By Robert Egbe A commercial bank and an investment company were among the victims of an alleged N11,795,090,000 investment scam, a Lagos State High Court sitting at Osborne, Ikoyi heard yesterday. Lawyers told Justice Toyin Oyekan-Abdullahi that the duo was negatively […]

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Baba Ijesha’s trial stalled over absence of prosecution witnesses

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By Adebisi Onanuga The trial of Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James aka Baba Ijesha, for alleged sexual assault was stalled on Friday at an Ikeja Sexual Offences Court owing to the absence of two witnesses for the Lagos State Government. The prosecutor, […]

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N11.79b scam: Court to orders banks to provide Ajetunmobis’ account statements

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By Robert Egbe A Lagos High Court in Ikoyi yesterday ordered all commercial banks to furnish it with comprehensive statements of account of Imagine Global Holding Company Limited, Imagine Global Solutions Limited and a couple, Bamise and Elizabeth Ajetunmobi within seven […]

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Lagos asks Judge to hands off Porbeni case

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Robert Egbe By Robert Egbe The Lagos State Government yesterday asked Justice David Osiagor of the Federal High Court in Lagos to recuse himself from a suit filed by Admiral Festus Porbeni (Retd) over a disputed Lekki property. It averred in […]

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AGF Malami Rattled As ‘CSP’ Claims He Works For Him

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By JOSEPH UNDU; PASCHAL NJOKU Fake Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Ajodo Lawrence, who led raid on Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili’s residence in Abuja, claimed on Thursday that he worked for Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami. But […]

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EFCC Arraigns Man Who Impersonated Pastor Ize-Iyamu To Defraud Borno APC Chair N70m

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By Unini Chioma The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri Zonal Command on Wednesday arraigned one Tope Jimi Fagun before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a-two count charge of impersonation and obtaining N70 million […]

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Nnamdi Kanu’s US lawyer to petition ICC over ‘rights abuses’, says Nigerian courts compromised

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by Bolanle Olabimtan Bruce Fein, the American lawyer of Nnamdi Kanu, has threatened to drag Nigeria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged gross violation of his client’s rights. Fein was in court on Wednesday to monitor the trial […]

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IPOB: Judge frowns at Kanu’s lawyers for staging walk out

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By Eric Ikhilae Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday expressed displeasure at the decision by defence lawyers in the trial of the self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu. Justice Nyako […]

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BREAKING: Senate directs Police to publish report on invasion of Justice Odili’s residence

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By Sanni Onogu The Senate on Tuesday ordered the Inspector General of Police Ahmed Baba Alkali to publish the report of the investigation into the invasion of the residence of Justice Mary Odili’s house. The resolution of the Upper Chamber followed […]