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BREAKING: Nigerian High Court Dismisses Case Seeking To Restrain #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria Protests

4 months ago2155 min

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed an application seeking an order of interim injunction restraining Nigerian protesters under different platforms from continuing with the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests. Justice Peter Lifu dismissed the motion ex parte, marked FHC/ABS/CS/1149/2024, on Monday, August 12, 2024. Some Nigerians had filed the motion ex parte (dated August 12, 2024) seeking the enforcement of their fundamental rights against the organisations involved with the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests.  The applicants sued organisations such as...

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Victim under pressure to drop police station rape case — Family
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Victim under pressure to drop police station rape case — Family

5 months ago2087 min

A relative of the 17-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by a police officer at the Ogudu Area H Command, identified only as Anderson, has accused the suspect’s family of pressuring the survivor’s mother, Aramida Olupona, to forgive the accused officer.  Anderson revealed this information to our correspondent during a phone interview on Saturday. Recall that during a telephone interview with City Round on Friday, the mother of the teenager, Olupona, said, “Officer Owolabi is...

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BREAKING: Judge Rules Federal High Court Lacks Power Over Criminal Defamation In Nigerian Police Case Against Social Media Influencer, Ijele

5 months ago937 min

  A Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled that the court lacks the power to try the offence of criminal defamation. The court stated this while dismissing two of the three counts of cybercrime charges brought against social media blogger, Mr. Chizorom Harrison Ofoegbu, popularly known as Ijele. SaharaReporters earlier on Friday reported that a Federal High Court in Lagos had struck out two of the three counts of cybercrime charges brought against the...

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BREAKING: Abuja Magistrate Court Strikes Out Cyberbullying, Criminal Intimidation Case Against Blogger Ijele As Prison Officer Thwarts Police Move To Rearrest Him

8 months ago1216 min

  A magistrate court in Abuja has struck out the case bordering on criminal intimidation, threat to life, cyberstalking, and cyberbullying filed against social media influencer Ofoegu Chukwuma, popularly known as Ijele. The Chief Magistrate, Emmanuel Iyanna, while ruling on the bail application filed through his lawyer on Thursday struck out the case for lack of jurisdiction. The judge also ordered the police to arraign the blogger before a competent court of law to enable...

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Anti-Graft Commission EFCC Sacks Top Prosecutor For Receiving Bribes From Ex-Government Officials To Sabotage Malabu Oil Fraud Case

9 months ago927 min

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly sacked its top prosecutors for allegedly receiving bribes to sabotage the Malibu OPL 245 fraud case.   The Gazette reported the Mr. Offem Uket who earlier handled cases involving former federal lawmaker, Senator Stella Oduah, Peter Nwaoboshi and Sambo Dasuki, was one of the sacked prosecutors.   Officials managing the situation said that the EFCC authorities moved quickly to castigate Uket as the wellspring of untold...

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BREAKING: Court Reduces Donald Trump’s Bond In Civil Fraud Case To $175million As Ex-President Attends Another Hearing 

9 months ago1846 min

      An appeal court has lowered former President Donald Trump’s bond in the New York civil fraud case from $454 million to $175 million to be paid within ten days. This comes as Trump attends a hearing in New York for motions in the hush money case against him. The ruling came the same day that New York Attorney General Letitia James would have been allowed to start seizing the former president’s real...

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Nigerian Military Should Not Bungle Case Of 17 Slain Soldiers; DHQ Must Hand Over Investigation – Falana

9 months ago825 min

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has warned the Nigerian military not to bungle the case of the 17 Nigerian Army personnel killed in Okuama Community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State.    Falana, who said that murder was not a military offence said that the authorities of the armed forces should be made to realise that the military could not arrest, detain, investigate and charge civilian suspects with any offence...

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