A Nigerian national, Maazi Okechuku Augustine, has been denied bail and remanded in police custody in Ghana over his alleged involvement in a foiled bank robbery plot in Accra. Augustine was arraigned before the Accra Circuit Court, where he pleaded not guilty to eight charges, including conspiracy to commit robbery. Following his plea on Wednesday,…
By Ayorinde Oluokun The National Law Drug Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Friday arraigned 63-year-old drug baron, Anochili Innocent, three Mexican nationals and six other Nigerians before Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on 11-count criminal charge bordering on the setting up of a super clandestine laboratory and the production of 2,419.48 kilograms…
The Nigerian police on Wednesday arraigned two lawyers on forgery and impersonation charges at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Apo, Abuja. Trial judge Jude Onwuegbuzie granted the first defendant, Victor Giwa, bail on stringent terms and conditions, but denied bail to the second defendant, Bukola Ibitade, a nursing mother. The court rejected…
A magistrate court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria’s South-east, has remanded a ‘prophet’, Nwebonyi Unadinma, in prison for attempted murder and arson. Mr Unadinma, 24, also faces 14 other counts, including defamation of character, malicious damage, and stealing. The police in Ebonyi State filed the charges against him at the magistrate court. The police prosecutor,…
A Grade ‘A’ Customary Court sitting in Mapo in Ibadan has ordered the remand of two brothers – Usman Wasiu, 20, and Toheeb Wasiu, 26, for allegedly insulting a police officer. The brothers pleaded not guilty to the two counts of conspiracy and breach of peace filed against them. The president of the court, S.M….
By Rotimi Ojomoyela The Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has remanded one Joy Ikoja, 20, for attempting to cut off her boyfriend’s manhood. The Ekiti State Police Command arraigned Ikoja before the court for unlawfully inflicting a wound on Ibrahim Usman by tearing his scrotal sac. The prosecutor, Inspector Adeboye Adesegun, told the court that…
Abdurahman Bello, the suspected killer of Hafsoh Lawal, a final year student of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, was on Tuesday, February 18, remanded at the Correctional Centre, Ilorin by the Ilorin magistrate’s court in Kwara State. Bello and five other suspects arraigned alongside him were not represented by any counsel in the court. Amongst…
A 35-year-old man, Susaine Morgan, has been remanded by a Magistrate Court sitting in Yenagoa, over an alleged attempt to assassinate the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri. The alleged incident occurred in Ekeremor town, Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The Magistrate approved the remand at the Correctional Service Centre in…
By Joe Udo Two siblings have been put before the Awutu Breku District Court on charges of two counts of conspiracy to commit crime, publication of false news and assaulting Sampson Nii Annan Oku, an artist over claims that he caused the disappearance of someone’s penis. They are Ugochukwu Chilota a 20-year-old trader and Favour Chilota,…
NOW A Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded a Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, in Kuje Correctional Centre, pending the determination of his bail application. The trial judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, gave the order after Gambaryan pleaded not guilty to the money laundering charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on…
