A United States-based Nigerian, Oluwole Adegboruwa, and his accomplice, Enrique Isong, have been sentenced to a combined 40 years in prison for running a multi-million-dollar drug trafficking network via the dark web. The duo, who were convicted of selling over 300,000 oxycodone pills across multiple states in the US, generated illegal proceeds amounting to $9…
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State has ordered the remand of Isaac Akinola, a 25-year-old man, for allegedly conspiring with others to beat a man to death. Akinola, whose address was not disclosed, faces charges of conspiracy and murder. Magistrate Oluwabusayo Osho stated that the court could not take Akinola’s plea due to…
THE Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has issued an interim injunction barring Lagos-based lawyer Dele Farotimi from publishing, selling, or distributing his book, “Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System.” The injunction, granted by Peter Kekemeke, the court’s judge, followed allegations of defamation against Afe Babalola, a senior advocate and founder of Afe Babalola University….
Dele Farotimi, a prominent human rights lawyer, has been granted bail by the Ekiti State High Court. Farotimi was last week arraigned before a Magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti, over the petition written against him by legal icon, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, over alleged defamation in his book titled, ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Judicial System’…
Court jails ‘Professor’ for trying to write UTME for daughter A Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has sentenced ‘Professor’ Jide Josiah Jisos to six months in prison for impersonation during the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. Spokesperson to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Fabian Benjamin disclosed this in…
#Endbadgovernance: AGF intervenes, takes over, sought for transfer of casefile of 114 detained protesters The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has sought transfer of the casefile of 114 EndBadGovernance protesters from the police to his office. Mr Fagbemi also directed the director of Public Prosecution of the Federation to…
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of $2.045m, seven choice landed properties and share certificates linked to the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Deinde Dipeolu ordered the permanent forfeiture of the monies and the two share certificates of Queensdorf…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has approved bail for 76 individuals detained after participating in the August 2024 #EndBadGovernance protest. Presiding over the case on Friday, Justice Obiora Egwuatu set a bail amount of N10 million for each defendant, with specific conditions. Each must secure two sureties for this amount—one being a civil servant…
