Category: Metro
LPDC rejects Afe Babalola’s firm bid to disbar Dele Farotimi
The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has rejected a request by Emmanuel Chambers, Afe Babalola’s law firm, to disbar Dele Farotimi, a [...]
Coca-Cola, FrieslandCampina, Guinness shut down by Lagos government over regulatory non-compliance
The Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission (LASWARCO) has sealed the factories belonging to Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, FrieslandCampina WAM [...]
Akintoye Akindele, Atlantic International Refinery boss arraigned again over $35m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, December 24, arraigned a businessman, Akindele Akintoye, before Justice Emeka Nwite of [...]
Court upholds conviction of business man, Kolawole Adedayo Erinle over $1.4m fraud
A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, in Lagos state, have upheld the conviction and 12-year prison sentence of businessman Kolawole Adedayo Erinl [...]
Stampede incidents reflect Nigeria’s systemic failures – Peter Obi
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has condemned the recent stampedes that claimed lives across the [...]
‘Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana led protests as young men, take the bull by the horns,’ NHRC tells youths
The Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC) says those compelling Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, and Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SA [...]
EFCC arrests Osang Usie Otukpa for defrauding 139 Australians
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested Osang Usie Otukpa, a fraudster, for defrauding 139 Australians to the tune of 8 millio [...]
Court grants Yahaya Bello ₦500m bail over fraud of N80.2bn
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday granted bail to the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in the sum of ₦500 million, with tw [...]
Afe Babalola wants LPDC to disbar Dele Farotimi
Afe Babalola’s law firm has asked the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) to disbar Dele Farotimi, a human rights advocate, for alleged [...]
Court orders seizure of Farotimi’s book, Afe Babalola’s law firm warns bookstores
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja has ordered the seizure of physical copies of lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi’s book, allege [...]