Category: Judiciary

Governor Ambode of Lagos State Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode and his government has been restrained from enforcing the provisions of the administration’s new Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant (Fiscalisation) Regulations 2017. The directive came from Justice Rilwan Aikawa of a Federal High Court sitting at Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria. The law brought about the introduction of a five per cent consumption tax and imposed a five per cent Value Added Tax on every purchase or service rendered by hotels,…

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Justice Ademola and wife, Adebowale in court. Justice Jude Okeke of the FCT High Court, Maitama, on Tuesday dismissed the 18-count corruption charges preferred against Justice Adeniyi Ademola, his wife, Olabowale and Mr Joe Agi (SAN). They were arraigned by the Federal Government on charges bordering on criminal conspiracy to receive gratification in various ways, contrary to Section 8(1)(a) of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Act 2000. Okeke in his ruling on the no-case submission of…

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  Yakubu Yusuf, the convict. John Yakubu Yusuf, the pension thief who five years ago, was given a slap on the wrist by Justice Abubakar Talba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, for stealing N32.8billion police pension fund, has finally got his deserved sanctions. The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division on Wednesday jailed him six years and also asked him to refund N22.9billion. Justice Talba had sentenced him to two years in jail, with the option of…

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Four stockbroking firms namely – Union Registrars Limited, UIDC Securities Limited, Gosord Securities Limited and Kapital Care Trust Securities Limited have been sanctioned for irregular transactions and unlawful sale of multi-million naira worth of an investor’s shares. Delivering judgment in a case instituted by Dr. Okam Kalu Ugwu, a medical doctor, against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the four firms, the Investments and Securities Tribunal sitting in Enugu ordered that all irregular transactions in the Union Bank…

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     Ex-Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mariam Alooma Muktar By Abdulrasheed Ibrahim In one of my articles titled “The Making of the first female Chief Justice” I wrote thus: “Hon. Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar stepped into history on the 16th July 2012 when she was sworn-in as the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria. Since 1958 when Sir Adetokunbo Ademola became the first indigenous Chief Justice of Nigeria, all those that came in succession to the office have been male…

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  A Lagos High Court, Igbosere, on Thursday sentenced an estate agent who is also a site engineer, Babatunde Habeeb,  to 1,230 years imprisonment for duping unsuspecting accommodation seekers of N28 million, under false pretence of giving them accommodation. Habeeb who is also known as Babatunde Salawudeen, is a younger brother to the 43 year old property developer, Alhaji Ishola Salawudeen, whom he connived with and duped the 101 prospective tenants to the tune of N28million. The convict who…

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Justice Candide-Johnson of an High Court of Lagos State, has ordered Stanbic-IBTC bank Plc to pay the sum of N50 billion as general damages, to one of its customers, Long-term Global Capital Limited, for breaching a contractual agreement between them. Apart from the judgment sum, the judge also ordered the bank and CRC, who is a joint defendant in the Suit filed by Longterm Global Capital Limited, to publish forthwith and not less than seven days, a retraction and…

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Dele Belgore (SAN) A Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on Thursday ordered the Deputy Chief Registrar (DCR), to release Mr. Dele Balgore (SAN), international passport, to enable him attend a conference in Kenya. Justice Rilwan Aikawa gave the order yesterday while delivering ruling in an application filed before the court, by the senior lawyer. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), did not file any counter affidavit to the application. The judge however ordered that Belgore must returned the…

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  A gang member on trial was shot dead when he launched himself onto a witness in an attempt to stab him. Siale Angilau, a member of the Tongan Crips gang, was filmed grabbing a pen or pencil before running towards the witness, another gang member. Court footage shows the witness sinking out of the way before a US Marshal shot Angilau, 25, four times. The clip of the incident that took place in 2014 has only now been…

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