Court Stories

“The Police in Lagos have arraigned four men before an Igbosere Magistate Court, over offences allegedly bordering on conspiracy, land grabbing, conducts that are likely to breach public peace and unlawful conversation of fund. In a charge marked C/18/2015, the Police alleged that the defendants had between 2005 and 2017, conspired among themselves to forcibly and unlawfully take over a ...

According to Daily Post, a former Managing Director of the Nigeria Coal Corporation, NCC, Sir Evarist Ibe has nursed fears over plans to eject him from his residence. He has therefore, dragged four agencies of the Federal government with its consultant, C.A Chizea & Co to the National Industrial Court Enugu division, for government’s inability to include him in the ...

According to The Nation, a 49-year-old man, Abiodun Adeyinka, who allegedly damaged  property worth N5 million belonging to the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), on Monday appeared before an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Adeyinka is facing a six-count charge bordering on malicious damage, conspiracy, unlawful assault and manner likely to cause breach of peace. The accused, however, pleaded innocence ...

The nation reports that a lawyer, Gbenga Ajala, has asked the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris and Lagos State Chief Judge (CJ) Justice Oluwafunmilayo Atilade to investigate the alleged  land encroachment  belonging to his client, the Oloto family of Oto, on Lagos Mainland. Ajala, in a February 7 petition, said the lives of members of the family were being threatened by ...

“A land owner was on Monday charged to an Ilorin Magistrates’ Court for allegedly collecting N250,000 under false pretence of selling a plot of land to a prospective buyer. The Prosecutor, Insp. James Odaodu, told the court that the accused, Alade Usman, on Oct. 7, 2015, collected the money for the plot of land from one Ayamolowo David. The prosecutor ...

According to The Nation, the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS has adjourned till May 2, a case of human rights violation following the demolition of his property filed by Chief Damian Onwuham and 22 others against the Federal Government. Also joined in the case is the Imo State Government. Onwuham alleged that his rights and that of 22 other members ...

The Guardian reports that a Lagos High Court presided over by Justice Oyekan Abdullahi, has granted Bela Vista Property Development Company Limited ownership of Itedo land which had been a subject of dispute and litigation between some members of Itedo community and Bela Vista Property Development Company Limited. Other defendants named in the suit filed by Itedo community are the ...

“A Lagos landlord, Engr. Babatope Bejide has filed a contempt
proceeding before a Lagos High Court, Igbosere seeking to commit to prison, the chairman of the Lagos land grabbers’Committee, Mr. Jide Bakare. The plaintiff has raise form 48, which is the notice of consequences of disobedience to court order, warning that Bakare stands the risk of being comitted to Prison if ...

In a bid to ensure speedy trial of violators of sanitation laws in Benue state, the state Sanitation Agency will soon inaugurate a permanent Sanitation Court, to dispense justice on daily basis. According to The Guardian, the General Manager of the agency, Andrew Chile made the disclosure recently after monitoring the monthly sanitation exercise in Makurdi, the state capital. He said the ...

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has been granted interim orders by the The Federal High Court Lagos Division to take over  Cityscape International Limited’s assets over its nearly N6 billion debt. According to The Guardian, the debt-induced take-over profile of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), has risen as the Federal High Court Lagos Division granted it an ...