Court Stories

There was ambiguity on Wednesday at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over the ownership of properties alleged to have been bought by the Senate president, Bukola Saraki, from the federal government. Under cross-examination, the prosecution witness, Mr. Michael Wetkas, told the Tribunal that the properties sold to the Senate president were privately owned. The evidence is contrary to the claim ...

Salisu Abdullahi, a former director of finance of the Nigeria air force, on Monday, admitted to owning property across three states in the country. Abdullahi, who had testified against Alex Badeh, former chief of defence, at the federal high court in Abuja, also admitted that some of his property had been marked for investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes ...

A witness testifying against a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, who is standing trial for allegedly buying the property, has told a Federal High Court how he transferred $2.3 million given to him by Mr. Ohakim for the purchase of a top-notch property in Abuja. The witness, Abu Sule, who is an architect, had told the court in ...

The two engineers who constructed the collapsed seven-storey guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations — Akinbela Fatiregun and Oladele Ogundeji — were on Today in Lagos granted N20million bail. An Ikeja High Court gave the ruling at the hearing of the bail application for the engineers. Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo said:”The bail application hereby succeeds and here are the ...

A Lagos State High Court Justice has granted the widow of the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu leave to re-open her evidence-in-chief, in the case she instituted against her husband’s family. Justice Abdulfattah Lawal granted Mrs. Ojukwu leave as she had on behalf of her two under-aged children, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu (claimants) dragged Ojukwu Transport Limited ...

Two engineers who constructed the collapsed guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations — Akinbela Fatiregun and Oladele Ogundeji — are to remain in Kirikiri Maximum Prisons till May 3, a court ruled on Yesterday. Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of an Ikeja High Court gave the order in a ruling on their bail applications. “Ruling is reserved for Tuesday, May ...

The two engineers, who constructed the collapsed seven-storey guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), were on Tuesday remanded at Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, Lagos. An Ikeja High Court which gave the ruling, said the men should be kept behind bars pending the determination of the charges against them. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ...

A witness, Michael Wetkas, on Monday, told the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) that Senate President Bukola Saraki used different bank drafts to buy properties in Ikoyi, Lagos. Mr. Saraki is facing a 13-count charge bordering on allegations of false asset declaration and money laundering. He had earlier pleaded not guilty to the charges. At the resumed hearing of the ...

Andrew Thornhill QC, a leading tax lawyer, was paid a bribe of £500,000 to act in a biased way to resolve a family property dispute, the high court has heard. The former head of Pump Court Tax Chambers in London has been accused of taking the payment from one side in the dispute despite being appointed as an independent expert ...

A former Inspector General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro, last Thursday, failed to appear before Justice Baba Yusuf of the FCT High Court in Maitama for a property case with Kundu Nigeria Limited. The judge who awarded N25, 000 cost in favour of the plaintiff, held that Okiro’s lawyer had shown that he wanted to contest the case. The defence counsel ...