ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 19, 2022 The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, appeared in the same clothes he wore on Tuesday after a Federal High Court order. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Binta Nyako had, on Tuesday, ordered thatContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 18, 2022 Social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha, on Tuesday opted to be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Center following his inability to meet the strict bail conditions imposed by an Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that MomphaContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 17, 2022 A couple, Fortune and Stephen Nwankwo, accused of manslaughter of their 19-year-old housemaid, Ms Joy Adole, have insisted that she committed suicide. The Nwankwos made the revelation while testifying in their defence on Monday before an Ikeja High Court about the circumstances surrounding theContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 17, 2022 A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, fixed March 28 for ruling in a no-case submission filed by former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Kabiru Turaki, and others in the ongoing trial. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after the defence counselContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 14, 2022 A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, discharged and acquitted Rtd Air Commodore Umar Mohammed of money laundering charge preferred against him. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, held that the prosecution had failed to prove the essential ingredients of the charge. According toContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 7, 2022 A mother of three, Olamide Lawal, on Friday pleaded with a Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan to grant her divorce on grounds that her husband, Saheed Lawal, engages her with too much sex. In her petition, Olamide who lives in Ibadan also accused her husbandContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 4, 2022 Some Abuja-based lawyers have expressed divergent views on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad’s proposal to proposal to the National Assembly to confer power of control of the Code of Conduct Tribunal ( CCT), to the National Judicial Council. The NewsContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Dec. 20, 2021 The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), on Monday, challenged the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court, Abuja to hear a suit filed against it and others over the controversial takeover of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC). Counsel to the BPE, A.U. Mustapha, SAN, madeContinue Reading
ShareBy A uta News Dec. 20, 2021 A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ilawe-Ekiti, Ekiti State on Monday, sentenced a man, Emmanuel Samson to six years imprisonment for stabbing his former wife Alice. Also sentenced to six years imprisonment is Samson’s friend, Lucky Obere. Delivering judgment, Chief Magistrate Olufemi Ayedun, held that theContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Dec. 14, 2021 An Ile-Ife Senior Magistrates’ Court in Osun on Tuesday remanded a teenager, Iwaku Olatunji, for alleged unlawful withdrawal of four million Naira from a BTC account. The prosecutor, Insp Elijah Adesina, told the court that the defendant, 19, committed the offence sometime in OctoberContinue Reading