Month: March 2016

The alleged abductor of a 14-year-old teenager from Bayelsa State has been taken to the Police headquarters in Abuja. Spokesman to Zone 1 of the Force, Rabilu Ringim told Vanguard in a telephone conversation that the suspect, Yunusa Yellow, was flown to Abuja on Tuesday morning alongside the victim, Ese Oruru. According to him, the…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been directed to free former Aide-De-Camp to ex-President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Ojogbane Adegbe, who has been in the custody of the anti-graft agency for some days now, precisely since February 11. An FCT High Court in Abuja ordered the EFCC on Tuesday to release Adegbe after he…

The commencement of trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has been postponed by one day, the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, has disclosed. Saraki is facing trial at the CCT on a 13-count charge of false declaration of assets. In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Head, Press and Public Relations of the…

Local and foreign investments will thrive in Nigeria if business owners have confidence in the judicial system especially in the speedy resolution of commercial disputes, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed has submitted. Justice Mohammed made the above point last week at the annual workshop for judges on legal issues in the…