Category: Legal
Cash withdrawal limit is illegal- Supreme Court
05 Mar 2023
The Supreme Court has adjudged the cash withdrawal limits imposed by banks as a result of scarcity of currency notes in circulation as a violation of citizens’ rights. A seven-man panel of the court led by John Okoro made the declaration in a unanimous judgement delivered on Friday. “Such restriction on an owner’s right to […]
Continue ReadingPolice confirms 12 people killed in an explosion in Rivers on Friday morning
04 Mar 2023
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed that 12 people were killed in an early Friday morning explosion in Rumuekpe, Emoha Local Government Area of the state. SP Grace Iringe-Koko, the command’s spokesperson, said in a statement in Port Harcourt that preliminary investigation revealed that the victims were scooping crude product when the site caught […]
Continue ReadingCourt discharges and acquits a 55-year-old lecturer accused of rape
04 Mar 2023
Dr Ayinde Olukayode, a 55-year-old university lecturer, was discharged and acquitted of alleged rape by Justice Adekunle Adeleye of an Ado-Ekiti High Court. Olukayode, an Ekiti State University (EKSU) lecturer, has been on trial for alleged rape in violation of Section 31 (c) of the Child’s Rights Law, Cap C7, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012. […]
Continue ReadingOndo: Police charge a driver with kidnapping and murdering a businessman
04 Mar 2023
Idowu Adekanye, a middle-aged driver, was charged on Friday by the Ondo State Police Command with the murder and kidnapping of a businessman named Omololu Olowosoyo in Ondo State’s Irele Local Government Area. Adekanye committed the crime on January 14, 2023, along the Ore-Irele road, according to Police Prosecutor Taiwo Oniyere, and was charged with […]
Continue ReadingPoliceman kills self after shooting girlfriend
04 Mar 2023
.A policeman, Olalere Michael, on Thursday committed suicide after shooting his girlfriend, identified simply as Tosin to death on the premises of a private school located on Agba Dam Housing Estate, Gaa Akanbi, in the Ilorin area of Kwara State. the policeman who was attached to the Kwara State Government House, Ilorin, and his lover […]
Continue ReadingPolice arrest 11 suspects caught with 9 human dry skulls, intestines and other body parts
04 Mar 2023
Police in Oyo State have arrested 11 suspects in possession of nine dry human skulls, one fresh human head, intestines and other human body parts. SP Adewae Osifeso, spokesman of the command, disclosed this on Thursday while briefing journalists. He explained that discreet intelligence gathering carried out on February 22, by a police monitoring unit […]
Continue ReadingRivers: Police arrest man over the deaths of two people on election day
03 Mar 2023
Detectives from the Egbeda Police Division in Rivers State’s Emohua Local Government Area arrested James, an alleged repentant cultist, in connection with the death of two people in Ubimini Community last weekend. James, also known as “Cross and Die,” is accused of orchestrating the crisis that erupted in the Ubimini community during the Presidential and […]
Continue ReadingProphet sentenced to 21 years in prison for defiling his 10-year-old stepdaughter
02 Mar 2023
Prophet Anwana Peter Essien, pastor of Restoration Bible Church, Itiam Street, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for defiling his 10-year-old stepdaughter. The Prophet, a native of Afaha Ise in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, defiled his victim, a JSS 1 student, on August 9, 2019, when her mother […]
Continue ReadingCourt remands leader of the house of reps for homicide and arson
02 Mar 2023
A Kano State Magistrates’ Court has remanded the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, at a correctional facility over charges of culpable homicide and arson. Doguwa was taken before Court 58 of the Magistrate’s Court in Nomansland area of the state metropolis Wednesday evening following his arrest at the Malam Aminu Kano […]
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