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In Owerri High Court has awarded N20 million as damage against the police for assaulting an Owerri lawyer, Chukwuemeka Amaghiro, last year.In his judgment, Justice K.A. Orjiako said the respondents were found guilty of gross violation of the applicant’s right.Amaghiro […]

  Lawyer, activist and businessman Audu Maikori was freed from security custody yesterday on bail following his arrest on Friday for allegedly spreading false information on the Southern Kaduna killings.Maikori was picked up in Lagos and flown to Abuja preparatory […]

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Victor Akande, on Saturday said that any further litigation would ruin the chances of the party in 2019 General Elections as many followers would have left.Akande, representing Ojo Constituency I at […]

The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Justice Ishaq Bello yesterday suggested ways of ensuring speedy trials in the nation’s courts.They said the general application of the […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC) is hunting for another former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation( NNPC) in connection with the ongoing probe of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.The said ex-GMD […]

The Nigerian Army has demoted two soldiers, Cpl. Bature Samuel and Cpl. Abdulazeez Usman of 82 Provost Company in Onitsha, Anambra, to Private for human rights abuse The Nigerian Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, made this known in a statement […]

Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday ordered a Lagos socialite and movie producer, Mr Olajide Oluwaseun Kareem, popularly known as Seun Egbegbe, to be remanded in prison custody for alleged foreign exchange scam of […]

An account official of the Federal High Court yesterday shed light into the earning of federal judges.He said a judge goes home with about N833,638.76 monthly made up of N528,638.76 basic salary and N305,000 welfare allowance.The Chief Accountant of the […]