A Magistrates’ Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has remanded two men, Hillary Ifeanyi (44) and Joseph Ufere Abel (43), for allegedly defiling underaged girls in two different incidents. The chief magistrate, Amaka Amanze, who presided over the two cases, remanded the accused. While Ifeanyi allegedly defiled a six-year-old girl in Oyigbo Local Government Area […]
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, and presided over by Justice Adolphus Enebeli, yesterday, sentenced Mr. Gracious David-West, a serial killer, to death by hanging, after about six months of trial. David-West was charged with 10-count charge of reported murder and attempted murder of young women in hotels in Port Harcourt, the […]
An Owerri High Court yesterday sealed Empire Energy Mega Station in Owerri following a judgment delivered by Justice Ngozi Bernardine Ukoha in favour of Managing Director, New Chidcon Medical Centres, Prof. Phillip Njemanze. Njemanze, in suit number HOW/919/2012, challenged what he called “unwarranted, unlawful and provocative confiscation of his hard earned personal property” destroyed by […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday upheld the de-registration of both Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, and Reform and Advancement Party, RAP, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The court consequently affirmed the power of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to de-register political parties that failed to meet the requirements contained in […]
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of a Federal High Court in Lagos has vacated the order restraining the Federal Government from withholding licenses of 10 Marginal oil field operators. The judge vacated the order yesterday while delivering ruling in a motion filed by the Ministry of Petroleum and a Director in the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), […]
The Federal High Court, Abuja yestersday, declined to stop further proceedings in the trial of former General Managing Director (GMD), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, over alleged $9.8 million money laundering. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a ruling, held that although both parties had filed appeals before the Supreme Court, whose outcome would likely […]