Tag Archives: Real Estate court stories

Further hearing in a suit filed by Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, against Ojukwu Transport Limited (OTL) and seven others was stalled on Tuesday. At the resumed hearing of the suit before a Lagos High Court, Bianca’s lawyer, Nick Omeje, prayed the court for an adjournment to enable him amend the claimant’s originating ...

Two professors born of same parents, Prof. Felicia Durojaiye Oyekanmi of the University of Lagos and her elder brother, Prof. Adebayo Durojaiye, are locked in a fierce battle over inheriting their late mother’s two houses in Lagos State. After failing to reach an amicable settlement within the family, one of the parties has proceeded to a Lagos High Court to ...

Proceedings in the trial of former Imo State governor, Ikedi Ohakim, before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court Abuja, resumed on Tuesday. At the resumed hearing, the prosecution witness gave a blow-by-blow account of how the former governor allegedly made a cash payment of $2, 290,000.00 (Two Million, Two Hundred and Ninety Thousand Dollars), for a piece of ...

The High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State has asked the police to pay N1 million as damages to the Executive Director, African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Rev David Ugolor and immediately return his property still in custody. Ugolor’s assets were confiscated two years ago while being investigated over his alleged involvement in the 2012 gruesome ...

A property developer, Lukman Adewole, was on Wednesday charged before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly defrauding 229 accommodation seekers. Adewole, 51, who resides at No.1 Okerinde Street, Baruwa Ipaja, Lagos, was arraigned on 229-count charges bordering on conspiracy, obtaining under false pretext and stealing. The Prosecutor, Insp. Abraham Fadipe, told the court that the accused committed the offences ...

The heir to a Manhattan real-estate fortune squandered millions of dollars that was supposed to go to a Jewish charity, going on a spending spree that included fancy cars and posh hotels, according to court papers. The United Jewish Appeal claims it was supposed to get the remainder of a trust set up by building mogul Bill Gottlieb, who died ...