The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, has directed immediate investigations into a suit purportedly challenging the legality of the States’ Judicial Panel of Inquiry, investigating allegations by citizens against officers of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The IGP, who gave the order on the heels of trending reports in the media on Thursday…
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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order to stop the judicial panels of inquiry set up by state governors to probe allegations of police brutality and human rights abuses of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police tactical units. The NPF, through…
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Nigerians woke up to another day of uncertainty Saturday after a two week-long demonstration calling for the end of the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and outrage over the shooting peaceful #EndSARS protesters in Lagos. During the early days of the protests, frontliners had accused Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of targeting and freezing their bank accounts and now court documents…
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2019 Presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, has sued the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, over growing tension generated from the nationwide #EndSARS protests. Dorsey had expressed his support for the #EndSARS movement which had been rocking the nation for over a week now, to which Garba threatened with a lawsuit. Now, following in his words, Garba…
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Nigerian cosmetic surgeon Dr Anuolauwapo Adepoju of MedContour Services Ltd. has been reportedly arrested and charged to court over an alleged failed surgery and failing to cooperate with investigation –Consumer Protection Agency. According to popular journalist, Fisayo Soyombo who shared her court’s documents on Twitter, Dr Anu was arraigned by the Federal High Court in Ikoyi for…
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A Federal High Court in Lagos has abruptly adjourned the alleged card fraud trial of musician, Azeez Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley following lawyers’ heated exchange over space to sit. The argument was between Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel Mr Rotimi Oyedepo on the one hand, Marley’s counsel Mr Olalekan Ojo SAN…
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Nigerian controversial musician Naira Marley, was trialed again on Wednesday for alleged credit card fraud before the Federal High Court in Lagos with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) tendering as exhibits an Apple laptop and an iPhone said to have been recovered from him. Naira Marley, whose real name is Azeez Fashola, released…
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The immediate past Senate President, Bukola Saraki says the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, misled Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court, Lagos into granting an order of temporary forfeiture of two of his properties in Ikoyi area to the Federal Government. The Federal High Court in Ikoyi had on Monday ordered the…
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The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed October 21 for the hearing of an application seeking the variation of bail conditions it imposed on the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. His lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) had on October 4, 2019. when the two men were granted…
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The police have charged the wife of late billionaire kidnapper, Collins Ezenwa, aka E-money, and four of his brothers with money laundering charges at the Federal High Court in Owerri, Imo State . Eleven counts were preferred against the defendants – Gift Ezenwa Emmanuel Okoronkwo, Uche Okoronkwo, Ikechukwu Onyekere and Franklin Anugba – by the…
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