Tag: High Court


  • The disputed installation of the Zaki of Arigidi-Akoko, Oba Yisa Olanipekun, has been dismissed by a High Court for lack of jurisdiction and abuse of court process. Olanipekun was installed nine years ago.  But his installation was challenged by one of the princes of the town, Joseph Olanipekun, who instituted a suit that produced him. …

  • IGBOSERE – The five persons were on August 15, 2017 wrongfully substituted and charged before Magistrate Awoyele Oshin of the Igbosere Magistrate Court and were remanded in prison till September 15, 2017. Five indigenes of Ilagbo community in Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos, who were wrongfully substituted by operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence…

  • JOS โ€“ The Prosecution Counsel, Mr Gideon Azi of the Plateau State Ministry of Justice, who investigated the matter, told the court that Yakubu had confessed to killing his father for refusing to buy a motorcycle for him. A Plateau State High Court on Friday sentenced a 20-year-old man, Ponjul Yakubu, to death by hanging,…