Category: Legal
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EFCC ORDES BANKS TO REGULATE MOBILE MONEY OPERATORS
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has ordered banks operating across the country to implore strict mechanisms in order to regulate and monitor activities of Mobile Money/Point of Sale Operators. The Head of the Gombe Zonal Office, Babashani Sanda, gave the charge on Thursday while receiving the Controller of Central Bank of Nigeria in Gombe…
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PRESS RELEASE: Twitter Suspension: Editors Urge FG To Seek Legitimate Means
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has urged the federal government to tread with caution and immediately reconsider the suspension of the operation of Twitter in Nigeria and seek other legitimate means of resolving its dispute with the company. In a statement by Mustapha Isah (President) and Iyobosa Uwugiaren (General Secretary) respectively, the NGE…
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I can’t be Responsible for a Child that is not mine.
A man has told a Lusaka local court in Zambia, that he could not take care of a child that was not his because his lover told him that he was not the father. According to The Zambian Observer, John Malama, 30, of Kanyama compound was testifying in a case in which his lover, Sylvia…
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Court Remands Sowore, Four Others in Prison
Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore and four others were on Monday ordered to be remanded in Kuje correctional facility pending the consideration of their bail applications. Magistrate Mabel Segun-Bello of the Magistrates’ Court, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja gave the order after Sowore, Juwon Sanyaolu, Peter Williams, Emmanuel Bulus and Damilare Adenola.were arraigned on three-count charge…
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Edo Panel of Inquiry summons retired Police CSP over death of UNIBEN student in 2013
A Chief Superintendent of Police, Mrs. Carol Afegbai (rtd), has been summoned by the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry to appear before it on 26, November 2020 over the circumstances surrounding the alleged shooting of one Mr. Ibrahim Momodu by the police on May 27, 2013 in Benin. The family of the deceased is…
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Court sentences six foreigners, Nigerian to seven years imprisonment over oil theft
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced six foreigners and a Nigerian to seven years imprisonment for oil theft. Justice J. K, Omotosho gave the verdict on Monday after three years of prosecution by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The foreigners were identified…
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Court orders Sen. Ndume’s remand over failure to produce Maina
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the remand of Senator Ali Ndume over his inability to produce former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who has jumped bail in respect of his ongoing N2bn money laundering trial. PUNCH reports that Justice Okon Abang ordered that the Borno South…
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Supreme Court dismisses suit against Gov Diri, deputy
A seven-man panel of the Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed Douye Diri as the duly elected governor of Bayelsa State. In a unanimous judgement by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, the apex court dismissed the six appeals filed against the governor and his deputy, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo. PUNCH reports that Justice Ngwuta, in his judgement, predicated the dismissal…
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Man docked for alleged assault on LASTMA official, granted 500k bail
One Mr. Ben Emmanuel, has been arraigned at a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting Ismaila Lukman, a LASTMA officer. Emmanuel, and some persons now at large, allegedly assaulted and injured Lukman on November 8 at Jakande Junction in Lekki while performing his official duty. A statement on Monday by the Lagos State Attorney…
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#EndSARS: Court grants Eromosele bail
The Yaba Magistrates Court, Lagos, on Tuesday, granted bail to detained #EndSARS protester, Eromosele Adene, in the sum of N1m. The magistrate ruled against an application filed by the policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department seeking to remand Adene for an extra 30 days. Eromosele’s lawyer, Tunde Jinadu, told reporters on Tuesday that…