A court in the United Kingdom has dismissed a $1bn bribery suit instituted against oil giants – Royal Dutch Shell and Eni by – the Federal Government of Nigeria, Bloomberg reports. The judge, Christopher Butcher, delivered the ruling at a virtual hearing on Friday, setting back the long-standing trial on […]
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Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara of an Osogbo Magistrate Court in Osun has granted bail to a monarch, Aketewi of Iketewi, Oba David Ogungbemi, his son, Idowu, and one Sarafa Olayiwola remanded over an alleged rape and impregnating a 14-year-old girl. The trio were docked last week Thursday on three counts of […]
A former Special Duties Minister, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki was arraigned on Monday, with three others before a Federal High Court in Abuja on fraud related charges. Turaki, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN) served as the Minister for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs from 2013 to 2015. He was also […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected the request by the Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina to further review the conditions attached to the bail granted him on November 26, 2019. Maina being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on […]
A Magistrate court sitting in Lagos has sentenced Nollywood actress Funke Akindele and her husband Abdulrasheed Bello a.k.a JJC skills to 14 days community service each. The duo were ordered to pay a fine of N100,000 each. Recalls that Akindele and her husband pleaded guilty to flouting social distancing regulation […]
