Court orders Ghanaian Ex-Football player, Asamoah Gyan to pay estranged wife, Gifty, GHc 25,000 monthly stipend along with a mansion, cars and land in divorce settlement
A Kano Shari’ah court sitting at the Kano State Hisbah Board has sentenced eight men to three months in prison for wearing female clothes and dancing like women. 9jaflaver reported that the suspects were arrested during a wedding at Kofar Waika in Gwale Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday, October 31, 2023. They…
A High Court sitting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital and presided over by Justice Blessing Egwu has sentenced one Jide Afolabi Sunday to life imprisonment for bathing his girlfriend with acid after she refused to accept his marriage proposal. 33-year-old Sunday was charged with attempted murder on his lover, Glory Sylvester Ita, whom…
Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, October 30, 2023, adjourned till November 13, 2023 the trial of Nigerian singer, Azeez Fashola( a.k.a) Naira Marley, for alleged internet fraud, owing to the failure of the Police to produce him in court for continuation of his trial. Naira Marley…
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, appeared before the Westminster Magistrate’s Court in London on Monday morning, October 2, to face bribery charges filed against her following an investigation by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA). Diezani, who also served as president of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), was a…
The court, presided by Justice M. Itsueli, sentenced the fraudsters after convicting them of offences bordering on internet fraud and obtaining under false pretences. The convicts are Seth Chukwumah, Hart James Okoh, Berta Aghogho Akpoveta, Obinna Okoh Patrick, Ugwoke Chinecherem Johnson and Akpovona –Momoh Malcolm Oghenekome. Others include Frank Efe Okeoghene, Okpidi Oghenerukevwe, Prince Tamunotonye…
The suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, appeared before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja on Thursday, August 17, over N6.9 billion alleged procurement fraud. His arraignment was however stalled due to the absence of the second defendant who are said to be indisposed. Although Emefiele who is the…
A 27-year-old man, Wasiu Akingbola bas been docked at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly assaulting a policeman and setting a police station on fire. The Lagos State Police Command, arraigned him on Thursday, on four-count charge of assault, arson, inflicting bodily harm and belonging to a secret cult. Akingbola pleadd not guilty…
Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the February 25, 2023 Presidential election on Tuesday attended the hearing at the Presidential Election Petition Court PEPC. He was there to listen as his lawyers adopted their final written address before the Tribunal. Atiku is challenging the emergence of President Tinubu as…
Operatives of the Department of State Service DSS have re-arrestsed suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele at the premises of the Federal High Court, Lagos. Emefiele’s rearrest happened at the court premises after the court granted him bail in the sum of N20 million. The DSS had a tussle…