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Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court in Lagos, on Friday, sentenced one Agudosi Okechukwu to six months in prison for failing to declare foreign currencies at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Okechukwu was arrested by operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service in December 2024 for failing to declare foreign currencies in the sum of £8,020 and $704 while attempting to travel. He had earlier declared £7,000 but concealed the remaining amounts. He was later handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for further investigation. He was arraigned on April 15, 2025, on a two-count charge…

A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has sentenced a herdsman, Dan-Bello, to 10 years imprisonment for violating the state’s anti-open grazing law. Dan Bello, was alleged to have destroyed farm crops valued at N50 million. He was arraigned on a five-count charge of conspiracy, unlawful grazing, malicious damage, breach of peace and illegal entry. The Prosecuting counsel, P.O. Nwafor, said that Dan-Bello, on October 27, 2023, grazed his cattle on a farmland belonging to the National Palm Produce Association of Nigeria (NPPAN), located along Ago Panu–Ute Road in Owo Local Government Area. Nwafor said that the…

People in Nigeria may lose access to Facebook and Instagram after their parent company, Meta said it faced large fines and “unrealistic” regulatory demands from the Nigerian authorities. Last year, three Nigerian oversight agencies imposed fines on the US-based social media giant, totalling more $290 million (£218m) for violating various laws and regulations. Meta was unsuccessful in a recent attempt to challenge the decisions in the Federal High Court in Abuja. “The applicant may be forced to effectively shut down the Facebook and Instagram services in Nigeria in order to mitigate the risk of enforcement measures,” the company noted in…

A federal judge on Friday ruled that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump targeting a law firm that represented his 2016 presidential opponent was unconstitutional. US District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the executive order targeting Perkins Coie violated the First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments, calling it a “blunt exercise of power” that “is not a legitimate use of the powers of the U.S. government or an American President” “The U.S. Constitution affords critical protections against Executive action like that ordered in EO 1423,” Howell, referring to the executive order, wrote in her 100-plus page opinion. “Government officials,…

A United Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months after being convicted of forcing a young Ugandan woman to work as a slave in Britain. Lydia Mugambe, 50, was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness after a trial at Oxford Crown Court. The trial was told Mugambe, a High Court judge in Uganda who was in the UK studying for a PhD, forced her victim to work as her maid…

A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square Annexe has sentenced Andrew Nice Ominikoron, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver in Lagos to death by hanging for the murder of 22-year-old fashion designer, Bamise Ayanwola. The verdict was delivered on Friday, May 2, 2025, by Justice Sherifat Sonaike. It would be recalled that Bamise had gone missing in February 2022 after boarding a BRT bus driven by Ominikoron.Her body was later found nine days after the incident fueling widespread outrage. The driver had kept mute after the incident. After Bamise’s disappearance was made public, he fled and went…

Justice Nwosu-Iheme of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Monday, sentenced the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi, Peter Nwachukwu, to death by hanging. Nwachukwu was found guilty of culpable homicide resulting in the death of the deceased ( his wife) on April 8, 2022. The judge held that the prosecution had proven the burden of proof placed on it by the law and subsequently found the defendant guilty. Nwachukwu was arraigned on June 3, 2022 by the Office of Attorney-General of the Federation (OAGF), on behalf of the Federal Government, on a…

The President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Monica B. Dongban-Mensem, CFR, JP, has approved a fresh posting of Honourable Justices across the various Divisions of the Court, effective 22nd April 2025. According to an internal circular, Justices have been posted to key divisions, including Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Benin, Jos, Ibadan, Ilorin, Owerri, Yola, Ekiti, Akure, Makurdi, Asaba, Maiduguri, Kano, Awka, and Gombe. The Honourable President noted that the newly posted Justices are to assume their duties by 5th May 2025. In Lagos Division, Hon. Justice Y. Nimpar will serve as Presiding Justice, with Justices J.…

I watched the Pope’s funeral from the window of a historic palace overlooking St Peter’s Square. But this place, in a prime location adjoining the Vatican, no longer houses a rich and powerful Roman family. In 2019, the building, Palazzo Migliori, was gifted to Rome’s homeless by Pope Francis. It was a controversial decision at the time; some were outraged that the pope would turn a grand palace into a homeless shelter. Today, the centre can accommodate 45 residents. They’ve shared meals with the pope in their very simple dining room, near the kitchen and the laundry room. As I…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Bwari Branch, has apprehended a suspected serial impostor, Richard Ikenna Udeozo, for allegedly impersonating a legal practitioner at the Branch Secretariat in Abuja. The arrest occurred on Wednesday when Udeozo attempted to fraudulently collect a lawyer’s stamp and seal issued in the name of Richard Ikenna Amanoh, a verified NBA member currently residing in Canada. According to a statement by the NBA Bwari Branch Chairman, Paul Daudu, SAN, Udeozo had created a deceptive online profile on the branch’s member portal using Amanoh’s genuine Supreme Court enrollment number. This allowed him to pose as a qualified…