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Indeed, Peter's wedding was more than a matrimonial celebration; it was a beautiful reunion of the Eti-Osa Bar family and a testament to the friendships he cultivated through years of dedicated service.
Crime
The Mexicans are fifty-six-year-old JOSE VILLA OCHOA and forty-year-old CARRERA LOAIZA ARTURO, while the Nigerian collaborators are MAXWELL UCHE NEVOH, OLATUNJI YUSUF, BANKOLE AKEEM OWOLABI, and GANIU MONSIU.
Corruption
Justice MOJISOLA DADA also ordered the convicts to refund the sum of Sixty-Seven Million, Six Hundred and Fifty-Nine Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety-Two Naira, which they fraudulently obtained from the complainant, OLUSOLA ODEMUYIWA.
Law and Judiciary
The concerned lawyer observed that the persistent lack of electricity at the Eti-Osa Magistrates' Courts, Ajah, has become an embarrassing obstacle to the administration of justice.
Corruption
During the trial, the court heard how the defendant altered bank account details of several customers and government-related entities, with intent to defraud.
Law and Judiciary
EMEKA IKE had accused LERE OLAYINKA of violating his fundamental right to privacy by publishing his voter registration details on his X handle in May.
Crime
The Magistrate Court sitting in the Ojodu Abiodun Magisterial District, Ogun State, delivered the judgement following the police arraignment of Samson Okonkowo on a four-count charge.
Law and Judiciary
Joyce ABDULMALIK held that the prosecution provided sufficient evidence to warrant calling on EL-RUFAI to enter his defence.
Corruption
CHUKWUEMEKA VICTOR AMACHUKWU, also known by the alias “So Kwan Leung” and “Chukwuemeka Victor Eletuo,” was arrested in France and extradited to the United States on August 4, 2025, to face multiple federal charges in the Southern District of New York.
Corruption
The EFCC accused EMEFIELE of criminal breach of trust, forgery, abuse of office, conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence, including the alleged withdrawal of Six-Point-Two Million Dollars, as well as conferment of corrupt advantage in the award of CBN contracts.
Controversial
The NBA President said the intervention follows concerns raised by members of the Owerri Branch and a request by one hundred and eighty-three members for an Extraordinary General Meeting.
Law and Judiciary
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, MOHAMMED KUDU HARUNA, said the deadline for such notification is October 24.
Law and Judiciary
ADENIYI ADEYEMI is accused of conspiracy and forgery following his arrest for parading himself at Director General of the so-called PFIPC, which the Federal Government said is non-existent and fake
Law and Judiciary
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC, had approved the elevation of the legal practitioners during its 174th plenary session held in Abuja in July.
Crime
The defendants are thirty-sixty-year-old MORENIKEJI BADMUS; forty-year-old ADEDOJA SEGUN; forty-nine-year-old JEREMIAH ODISE UGBEDE ONRIDE; as well as MIKE STEPHEN who is twenty-eight; and DAVID ODEH, aged thirty-two.
Controversial
SERAP is challenging the lower court judgement in favour of DSS based on twenty-four grounds, according to an Appellant’s Brief of Argument filed by its counsel, TAYO OYETIBO, Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
Crime
The Judge also sentenced the two sureties, including AYENI’s father, BABATOPE EBENEZER AYENI, to six months imprisonment, for failing to produce the convict in court.
Law and Judiciary
MONDAY ONYEKACHI UBANI, SAN, is of the view that the Supreme Court did not order INEC to disqualify candidates.
Law and Judiciary
SUSWAM is standing trial alongside his former Commissioner of Finance, OKOLOBIA OKPANACHI, in a nine-count charge of alleged diversion brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Corruption
The 431 mobile phones were linked to a cyber-fraud operation allegedly involving Chinese and Nigerian youths at a facility known as “HK” in Victoria Island, Lagos which was used to train and deploy Nigerian youths and foreign nationals to carry out romance, investment and cryptocurrency fraud.
Crime
In Sokoto State, three of the convicted kidnappers were tried in absentia and they were identified JABBI ALHAJI YALLE and KABIRU MUHAMMAD, as well as YUSUF MUHAMMAD, also known as SALLAU, who is from Niger Republic.
Controversial
President TINUBU departed Abuja on August 30 for a twenty-one-day working vacation in London and Paris, but his return was postponed twice without any clear reason.
Corruption
AFOLABI KAZEEM, aka KC LUXURY, is standing trial alongside two accomplices, identified as BONIFACE FREEMAN OCHOCHE SULE and IKECHUKWU EKUGO PATRIARCH, before Justice MUSA KAKAKI of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.
Crime
They are alleged to be working in partnership with a notorious Mexican drug cartel member, identified as RODRIGUEZ VILLANUEVA, who is based in Mexico City.
Foreign
This is the second time he has been given a prison sentence in the MIRIAM HALEY case, after New York's highest court overturned his initial 2020 conviction in a 2024 judgement.
Foreign
CNN, MS NOW and Politico claim the government action, if left unchallenged, threatens press freedom and the public’s right to independent journalism free from government interference.
Corruption
WILL JESSICA ANN pleaded guilty to the charges, expressed remorse and pleaded for leniency, promising never to engage in such an act again, claiming she did not know there were illicit drugs in the bags.
Corruption
Justice MUHAMMED DANJUMA delivered the judgement on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, affirming the earlier decision of Justice F.E. MESSIRI of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Crime
NDLEA spokesman, FEMI BABAFEMI, said FESTUS IBEWUIKE, also known as CHIDIBEST IBEWUIKE, had relocated to Mozambique where he operates a hotel business as a front.
Controversial
ATIKU ABUBAKAR’s Media Adviser, PAUL IBE, criticized Presidency for answering questions nobody asked, while avoiding the questions Nigerians are actually asking.
