Category: Justice

The imprisoned son-in-law of a murdered Monaco billionaire, Helene Pastor goes on trial Monday with nine other people suspected in the brazen daylight killing of the heiress, a case which prosecutors say bears all the hallmarks of a sordid crime thriller. Helene Pastor was leaving a hospital in Nice on the French Riviera after visiting […]

Candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the September 22 Osun State governorship election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has expressed the hope that government would find the killers of former Justice minister, Chief Bola Ige. Omisore, who was one of those accused of killing Ige, said on Sunday that he was of the hope that […]

– says national security not sufficient ground to override rule of law, personal liberty of any citizen The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to pay N10.5 million to a Bayelsa State based journalist, Mr Jones Abiri as compensation over his illegal detention for two years […]

An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the remand of 29-year-old Ojo Yemi for allegedly killing a 65-year-old woman, Josephine Ajayi. The defendant, docked for murder, was alleged to have killed the woman and thrown her body into the river. Yemi whose address was not provided, is being tried for murder. The prosecutor, Inspector […]

Former counsel to alleged kidnap kingpin and billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, Olukoya Ogungbeje was on Wednesday arrested within the premises of the Federal High Court Ikoyi by policemen from the Panti Division of Lagos State. He was arrested as he stepped out of his car. It was gathered that the officers from the […]

– gives agency seven days’ ultimatum – alleges detainees being held in dehumanising, degrading conditions in underground cells at DSS headquarters Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, on Tuesday wrote to the Acting Director-General of the Department of State Services (also known as State Security Service), Mr Matthew Seiyefa, demanding the names of 294 […]

– IPO witness reels out investigation details, evidence showing Evans as kidnap, armed robbery kingpin – Court adjourns case to October 26 for ruling Alleged notorious kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, on Tuesday denied making any statement to the police, detailing his career as a serial kidnapper. He made the denial through his […]

– 25 years after murder of Zakari, former Head of State’s son Twenty-five years after the murder of Zakari, eldest son of the late former Head of State, Gen Murtala Muhammed, the family on Monday, enjoined the National Assembly to enact the Victims’ Rights Laws, which would protect the rights of victims of such heinous […]