The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that as of February 6, 2023, it had been joined in 1,241 intra-party lawsuits in different courts of law. INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made this confirmation , when he hosted a delegation of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) led by their President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau, at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. According to him, the rising number arises due to court cases challenging political parties primaries conducted for the nomination of candidates for the 2023 general elections. Yakubu however revealed that the cases have nothing to do with election conducted by…
Author: Kunle Dada
A Family Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan has ordered that a 32-year-old man Kareem Sarafa be remanded in a correction centre for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old daughter. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Oyo State charged Mr Sarafa with defilement. Chief Magistrate P. O. Adetuyibi, who did not take Mr Sarafa’s plea ordered he should be remanded in Abolongo Correctional Centre, Oyo. Ms Adetuyibi ordered that he be remanded pending legal advice from the Oyo State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP). Mr Olurotimi said that the defilement occurred at Ile-Ejo Idi-Osun, Papa area, Ibadan, where the man lived…
A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, on Wednesday sentenced a 35-year-old woman, Success James, to prison for child labour and abduction of female minors for prostitution in the state. The presiding magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe, found James guilty of seven charges of the eight-count levelled against her. Delivering the sentence, Osakwe, who found James guilty, sentenced her to five years imprisonment for count one, five years imprisonment for count two, two years for count three, four years for count four, two years for count five, two years for count seven, while count eight was for a one-year…
The Ogun State Police Command has revealed that all suspects involved in the New Year’s Eve murder of a former Central Bank of Nigeria official, Kehinde Fatinoye, his wife and son have been arrested. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Oyeyemi Bola, made this known on Tuesday in a brief statement on Twitter. He wrote, “All the suspects involved in the killing of the Fatinoye couple and their son on New year’s eve in Abeokuta have been arrested.” It was reported that a catastrophe struck in the Ibara area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, on New Year’s Eve when Kehinde and…
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of a 20-year-old man, Josiah Godwin, at the Olokuta Correctional Centre for allegedly killing one Saviour Joseph. Godwin, who was an apprentice of the deceased, allegedly murdered his master and dumped his corpse in a well at Imafon Community in the Akure South Local Government Area of the state. He was later arrested and charged to the Magistrate Court by the state police command. The defendant was arraigned before court on two counts of conspiracy and murder. As prosecution commences, prosecutor, Inspector Folasade Adeyemi,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday re-arraigned a social media influencer and comedienne, Adedamola Adewale alias Adeherself, for alleged of N7.9 million internet fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adewale was charged alongside two others at large, on a three-count charge of conspiracy to obtain money by false pretences, attempt to obtain money by false pretences and retention of proceeds of a criminal conduct. Adeherself, , however, pleaded not guilty to the charge before Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court. EFCC counsel, Mr Samuel Daji, informed the court that the case…
A chief magistrate’s court in Ogba, Lagos, has sentenced Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, to six weeks in prison. The court, presided over by Magistrate Lateef Owolabi, extended the same sentence to Ezinwa Unuigboje, the bank’s secretary, after finding both guilty of disobeying a garnishee order of court restraining the bank from allowing a judgment debtor access to his account. Owolabi had on December 6, 2022, issued the garnishee order for 17 banks to not grant Enabulele Ozaze, a judgement debtor, access to his bank accounts until he paid a judgement debt of N2.8 million. Ozaze was…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a 51-year-old landlord, Saheed Ojomu, to five-year imprisonment for allowing his tenant to use his shop as a warehouse for cannabis. Justice Daniel Osiagor handed down the sentence to the convict after he changed his not-guilty plea to guilty. Meanwhile, the convict was arrested over the banned substance found in one of his shops on March 31, 2017, by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. During his arrest and arraignment, he claimed that the banned substance belonged to one of his tenants, Sakiru (now at large), and pleaded not…
Telecommunication consumers under the aegis of the National Association of Telecoms Subscribers have dragged the Federal Government to court over its plan to implement a five per cent excise duty on telecom services. The National President, NATCOMS, Adeolu Ogunbanjo, revealed that the suit is against the imposition and implementation of excise duty and the continued imposition and implementation of Value Added Tax on telecom services. Confirming the development to the press, Ogunbanjo said, “There are too many taxes on telecom service. Putting too many taxes on it is not fair. When you buy airtime, you pay VAT. Why are we…
