Tag Archives: Court

Scores of butchers under the umbrella of National Butchers Union from the 11 local government areas in Ibadanland on Sunday appealed to Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State to as a matter of urgency prevail on some elements who are using soldiers, policemen and other security agents to destroy their property, intimidate and harass butchers across the various abattoirs in ...

Justice Sadiq Umar of FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday declined to admit as exhibit the statement made to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by a former Chief of Naval Staff, retired Vice Admiral Usman Jubrin. Jubrin is standing trial alongside retired Rear Admiral Bala Msheila, retired Rear Admiral Shehu Ahmadu and Harbour Bay International Limited, in an ...

A contractor to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Francis Momoh, who was accused of paying multiple kickbacks to former Executive Director of Projects of the commission, Tuoyo Omatsuli yesterday urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to lift the temporary order of forfeiture placed on two properties located in the Lekki area of the state. Momoh, who is claiming ...

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, (AMCON) has lost its bid to take over the land and property known as the Federal Secretariat Complex, in Ikoyi Lagos. Justice Ibrahim Buba in a judgment delivered at the Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos on Wednesday reiterated that the Federal Government of Nigeria and it’s agencies are bound to recognize an arbitral ...

Property Theft – A Karu Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday ordered the remand of 22-year-old Nasiru Mohammed, for allegedly stealing hotel property. The judge, Sani Mohammed, ordered the defendant to be remanded in prison pending further order of the court. Earlier, the prosecutor, Vincent Osuji, told the court that one Chukwuemeka Ajah of Miami Escape Hotel, Karu, Abuja, ...

A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere on Thursday, May 31 ruled that it cannot make any pronouncement on the 3rd Codicil an Irrevocable Power of Attorney, whose validity, as pleaded by the Defendants, is being challenged by the Claimants in the matter of the estate of Alhaji Kasali Olaleye (Deceased). Presided over by Justice Morenike Obadina, the court gave ...

LAND DISPUTE – A 48-year-old man known as Oluwole Ogunfeyimi, was on Wednesday brought before an Okitipupa Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State over alleged threat to life and damage of his brother’s property worth N450,000. The accused who stays at No. 56, Akosile St., in Okitipupa, was arraigned before Magistrate Banji Ayeomoni on a three-count charge of threat to life, ...

The Nigerian Army has described a false allegation made by one Mr. Victor Otomiebo that it has sold off lands meant for barracks in Warri, Delta State. A statement by the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, said the allegation was made against the Nigerian Army and the person of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. ...

A businessman, Olukorede Roberts, has told an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, how he was defrauded of N80m by a self-styled real estate agent, Jimoh Olawale. Olawale is facing two counts of obtaining money by false pretences and stealing. Roberts, while being led in evidence by Mr. E. A. Jackson, a prosecutor for the Police Special Fraud Unit, gave details of ...

Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos has refused bail to two Managing Directors (MDs), Samuel Okeke of Samadores Ltd and Aqua Rock Real Estate, and Ifeanyi Ndigwe of Icon Communications Ltd over property scam. The trial Judge rejected their applications following opposition from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Okeke, Ndigwe, and the Managing Director ...