Court Stories

BCL Limited has sued the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) at the Federal High Court, Lagos, for N1billion over its continued occupation of a property at No. 13B Reeves Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, belonging to BCL Limited. Aside from NAF, other defendants in the suit include the Chief of Air Staff, NAF Investment Limited, Commander 107 NAF Camp, Victoria Island Lagos, Federal ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday told a Federal High Court in Lagos how a former Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu, took money from the Nigerian Air Force bank account to buy personal properties worth billions of naira. Mr. Amosu, a retired Air Marshal, was arraigned alongside Jacob Adigun, an Air Vice Marshal, and Gbadebo Olugbenga, an ...

The prosecution witness in the trial of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, Mustapha Yerima has declared that he was pressured by the defendants to lay claims to the property allegedly acquired with diverted military funds. Badeh alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited is standing trial before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja ...

The trial of the two engineers charged over the collapse of a guest house belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, took a new turn on Tuesday when a video of the tragedy was shown in court. The disaster killed 116 people, mostly South Africans. The engineers are Akinbela Fatiregun and Oladele Ogundeji. The video was shown in a ...

Weeks after they were granted bail by the court, the contractors that handled the construction of the collapsed Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) building, Akinbola Fatiregun and Oladele Ogundeji, were on Monday 20 June, 2016 released from the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons after meeting all their bail conditions. The two engineers had been remanded in prison pending trial for alleged ...

A high court has ordered the government of Nasarawa State to pay N100 million as damages for demolishing a property belonging to Kinric Construction and Fabrication Company and its affiliate, HARPS Property and Investment Company Limited. Justice D.D Adeck, who gave the order, held that the government was to pay the money for aggravated damages for unlawful termination of contract, ...

A 26-year-old man, Lucky Aigbogun, appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Monday for allegedly attacking his property’s caretaker with a hammer. Mr. Aigbogun, a resident of Shola Martins Street, Agege, Lagos, is facing trial for breach of peace and assault. The prosecutor, Essien Ndarake, a police inspector, told the court that the accused committed the offences on June 1 ...

The widow of the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca, has opposed an application by her husband’s son, seeking to be joined as a defendant in a suit she filed against the family over property. Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Jr., Ojukwu’s second child, filed the application dated May 24, before Justice Abdulfattah Lawal of the Lagos State High Court, ...

According to Sahara Reporters, A federal high court in Lagos has granted a Mareva injunction permitting the Nigerian government to freeze assets owned by two Nigerian businessmen Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore, and their company Atlantic Energy. The individuals are linked to former Nigerian oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke in a wide range shady business dealings that illegally transferred Nigerian oil ...

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, purchased a property in Maitama, Abuja, in 1993, but failed to declare it in 2003 when he submitted his assets declaration form as a newly-sworn in governor in Kwara State, prosecutors told the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Wednesday. Following a week’s break, Mr. Saraki’s alleged false and anticipatory assets declaration trial resumed Wednesday before Justice ...