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A Supreme Court in New Jersey, America, has granted a brother and sister to be married. The couple has been in Court for ten years and they finally won the right to live as husband and wife. In a 5-to-4 ruling, five judges unanimously granted the appeal by James Banes, 41, and...

Justice Abiodun Adesodun of the Ekiti State High Court has convicted a former cashier officer with Fidelity Bank, Ado branch, Ado Ekiti, Michael Adedayo Ihinolurinjon, and sentenced him to ten years in prison for stealing money from the bank’s vault and diverting customers’...

The Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentencing of Josephine Udeh, before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri on a one-count charge of obtaining money by false...

Chairmanship of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mamud Yakubu, failed to appear before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja. The tribunal had, on Wednesday, ordered the INEC boss to appear before it unfailingly yesterday at noon. Yakubu...

Eucharia Ojukwu (Che Che) from Awka Etiti. The sister to the deceased Eunice Tochukwu Ojukwu gave this report when she visited the Ikeja office of the Sun Newspaper Friday. “I am the immediate junior sister of Eucharia Uche Ishiaku who was married to the man you all now know as...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has beefed up his legal team by obtaining the services of foremost constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), to prosecute his petition challenging the...

The International Federation of Women Lawyers ( FIDA ) Abuja Branch has called for the recall and prosecution of Senator Ishaku Elisha Abbo who allegedly beat up a woman. In a press statement signed by Rekia Rachael Adejo-Andrew (Mrs.)Chairperson, FIDA Abuja Branch , she stated...

The Registered Trustees of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion (RTCNAC) and four others have been dragged before the Federal High Court, Abuja over the alleged amendment of canons. Others joined as defendants in the suit are the Archbishop Metropolitan and Primate of the...

° As Atiku, PDP ask tribunal to quash proceedings Legal hostilities will resume on July 1 before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in a fresh application brought by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, seeking to quash the proceeding of...

An operative of the Department of State Security (DSS) Mr. Folusho Rotimi, yesterday revealed to the Federal High Court, Lagos, how specimens of fake Nigerian currency was recovered from Parkview, Ikoyi’s home of a businessman, John Elem.Elem is standing trial before...