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The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has declared that the party has moved beyond the period of uncertainty caused by prolonged litigation and is now focused on rebuilding ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Ohuabunwa expressed confidence that the…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday closed one of Nigeria’s most consequential terrorism trials by handing life sentences to two senior commanders of the Ansaru group, only for the Department of State Services to reject the punishment within hours and announce plans to seek a stiffer penalty at the Court of Appeal….
Nearly a billion naira that flowed for years into hundreds of bank accounts tied to workers who may never have existed now belongs to the Federal Government, after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the permanent forfeiture of N941,994,079.86 traced to an alleged ghost worker scheme buried inside the country’s central payroll…
The federal government has filed a ten-count criminal charge against three men accused of kidnapping schoolchildren and teachers in Oyo State. The prosecution filed the case at the Federal High Court in Abuja following a sweeping counter-terrorism investigation. The state accuses the defendants of terrorism, kidnapping, concealment, incitement, and running illegal mining operations. Department of…
The battle for control of the Peoples Democratic Party returned to familiar ground on Friday, as a Federal High Court in Abuja struck out a suit that sought to force the electoral umpire to recognise the Kabiru Turaki led Interim National Working Committee, leaving one of Nigeria’s oldest political parties still split down the…
Seven prime properties spread across Lagos and Delta State, along with 2.045 million dollars in cash and two share certificates linked to former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, have been permanently forfeited to the Federal Government after the Supreme Court on Friday, July 17, 2026, brought a two year legal contest to…
The forgery trial of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self styled Director General of a council the Presidency insists never existed, stalled again on Tuesday after the defendant failed to appear at the Federal High Court in Abuja, leaving prosecutors weighing an application for a bench warrant. Adeyemi was billed to take his plea…
Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man at the centre of one of the most curious impersonation scandals to hit the seat of government in recent years, is scheduled to finally take his plea before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, July 14, as the police move to arraign him over an agency the Presidency…
The detention of a journalist attached to opposition figure Omoyele Sowore has opened a fresh dispute between the Department of State Services and civil rights campaigners, with the security agency insisting the matter is a straightforward regulatory breach while Sowore maintains it is a calculated move to frustrate his ongoing court case. The journalist,…
The bitter feud between the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, and the self-styled director-general of a disputed government council took a fresh legal turn this week, with the presidential aide threatening to drag his accuser to court over allegations that range from bribery to murder. Through his lawyers, Pinheiro LP,…
