Funke Busari It is end of the legal battle for the former governor of Plateau State Joshua Dariye as the Supreme court upheld the 10-year imprisonment imposed on former Plateau Governor, Joshua Dariye upon his conviction on the offence of criminal breach of trust. A five-man panel of the court, led by Justice Mary Odili, in a unanimous judgement on today, upheld Dariye’s appeal in part, by quashing the one-year sentence imposed on him by the Court of Appeal in relation to the offence of criminal misappropriation. The Supreme Court upheld Dariye’s concurrent conviction and sentence by the trial court…
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Funke Busari A corps member Nazim Usman Gomna and a 400Level student of AL-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Idris Shuaibu Suleiman, were arraigned on Thursday by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over offences bordering on theft to the tune of N9.1million. One of the defendants was said to be serving at the Jigawa State House of Assembly while the other was a former student at the AL-Hikmah University, Ilorin, the school he allegedly hacked into its website with the connivance of the Corp member. The duo were arraigned on a three count charge of conspiracy…
Funke Busari, Lagos Effort to ensure speedy dispensation of Justice in Lagos State is underway, especially in the direction of the digitization of courts in the State. This was disclosed to stakeholders of the justice system on Wednesday at the first virtual Bar-Bench Forum 2021 by the Lagos State Judiciary in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice. According to the Chief Judge of Lagos State Honourable Justice Kazeem Olanrewaju Alogba, the Judiciary will be investing more in the digitalization and ICT based initiatives in all its legal engagements. He said the Judiciary sector will take advantage of the aftermath of the…
Funke Busari The security of the nation’s maritime environment has received a boost with the assurance from the Ministry of Defence that it would support the desire to carry out its constitutional duties. This is according to the new Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, MOD, Mr. Musa Istifanus during his maiden familiarization visit to the Naval Headquarters Abuja. During the visit Mr. Istifanus revealed that the senior staff of the Ministry have resolved to work closely with the leadership of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, towards having a safer and secured Nigeria. He stated further that the…
Funke Busari, Lagos Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo sitting at the Ikeja High Court in Lagos again adjourned hearing of adoption and final written addresses on the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, collapsed building trial to May 27, 2021 due to work load of cases in his court. At the resumed hearing on Thursday, the court was formally briefed and served a copy of death certificate on the death of the 5th defendant, Mr. Akinbola Fatiregun, one of the engineers earlier released on bail but who died in October, 2020. Lagos State Government had charged SCOAN over the building collapse which…
Funke Busari A frontline talent discovery platform, Cream, is set to empower Nigerians win millions of naira and brand new cars through its platform. This information is contained in a statement signed and released by Nigerian Musician, Oladapo Oyebanjo, popularly known as “Dbanj”, the founder of Cream platform. CASEFILE gathered that Cream platform has built a reputation for itself by producing some of the outstanding talents in the country over the last couple of years such as Mr. Real, Slimcase and more. Stating further the Kokolet Master said the Cream platform had partnered with Heritage Bank to relaunch a new talent…
Funke Busari Nigeria will soon receive a £4.2million from the United Kingdom government, monies looted by former Delta state governor James Ibori, members of his family and friends. This was disclosed on Tuesday by the British High Commission to Nigeria, Ms. Catriona Laing. According to Ms. Laing, the money will be first tranche of such planned returns. She explained that what is currently being returned were retrieved from friends and members of Ibori’s family. According to her, Ibori’s case is complicated, hence the United Kingdom authorities were still working on the total actual amount involved in the case. Laing spoke…
Funke Busari The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa has urged staff of the the agency to be disciplined and dedicated to their duties. The appeal was made on Monday March 8, 2021 at the EFCC Headquarters in Abuja. Speaking, Mr. Bawa said, “All Staff are important in this fight against corruption from the top to the least. So, I invite everyone to bring ideas and best practices that will help to organise and recalibrate the Commission in order to make it a better place. I am a part of you and I…
Funke Busari One who is familiar with the highpoint of the wolf’s cry story, need not struggle to discern that giving false information could only bear sour tale. This is the predicament of two persons, Dominic Okem and Chukwunonso Igweonu, who have been convicted and sentenced to two months imprisonment each for conspiracy and giving misleading and false information. Pronouncing judgement on the duo who pleaded guilty, the judge, Justice I.M. Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on March 4, 2021, ordered imprisonment of the convicts. They were arraigned by the Port Harcourt Zonal…
Funke Busari, Lagos The Divisional Police Officer, DPO, at Ajao Estate Division and other senior police officers of the Lagos State Police Command (names withheld) have been redeployed over allegations bothering on lacklustre enforcement of the COVID-19 protocols in their areas. The command had arrested 41 clubbers at Garbana Club between 1:40a.m and 2:30a.m. This led the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu to warn officers of the Command particularly the Area Commanders and DPOs on Monday, 8th March, 2021 at the POWA Hall,Oduduwa Ikeja. The Police boss sternly said on no account should any of the officers…