The Supreme Court today waived the Court of Appeal’s decision that ordered the removal of the Chairman Senate Committee on Gas, Senator Nkechi Nwogu, as the duly elected Senator representing Abia Central Senatorial District. Presiding Justice Francis Adebiyi while setting aside the lower court’s decision of December 13th, 2011, said the sole ground for removing Senator Nwogu from office was not on election ...

Tim Lambesis, lead singer for the heavy metal band As I Lay Dying, was arrested in California on Tuesday on charges that he sought the help of an undercover detective to have his estranged wife killed. Lambesis was taken into custody in Oceanside, near San Diego. Police had previously learned Lambesis was looking for someone to carry out the killing, but would not give any details as to his motive. His wife ...

A 31-year old ex-policeman, Kelvin Ighodalo has been sentenced to 45-year imprisonment by an Osogbo High Court for stealing a N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to Governor Rauf Aregbesola. Mr Ighodalo had stolen the phone from the Governors pocket on November 27, 2010, when he was being inaugurated at Government Technical College, Osogbo. Justice Oyejide Falola, who precided over the case, found the acc ...

Presiding Justice Oludotun Adefope-Okojie said she would hear the application filed by Mr Aribisala along with another application, a preliminary objection filed by Fidelity Bank which is challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear the case. Mr Aribisala had in his preliminary application dated March 7, 2013 asked the court for a Mandatory Injunction restraining the Legal Practitioners Privileges Comm ...

Lawyers condemn the public parade of suspects before trial. That's the focus of this episode of law weekly with our judiciary correspondent, Shola Soyele. Also in this edition, senior legal practitioner, Fred Agbaje believes that the police did no wrong in inviting the journalists from leadership newspapers over the publishing of the 'presidential directive' while the national coordinator of Legal Assistanc ...

The Federal High Court, Lagos, has granted former Enugu State Governor, Chimaroke Nnamani leave to travel to the United States of America for medical treatment. Presiding Justice Mohammed Yinusa, while dismissing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) opposition to the application, held that the former governor needed not to justify his journey because "he can as well travel abroad for any ot ...

An Egyptian court made the ruling today, as he faces separate corruption charges. The 84 year old former leader is awaiting a retrial for conspiring to kill protesters in early 2011. His lawyer successfully argued that he had spent the maximum time in prison under temporary detention. The case has been referred to a different court, which is expected to appoint a new panel to hear the retrial. About 850 peo ...

Lawyers said that while the transfer would give prosecutors more time to draw on new evidence in an unpublished fact-finding commission's report into the repression, it could delay the case by months, increasing the risk that Mubarak, 84, may never be finally convicted and sentenced. "Egypt cannot close the door on the former regime until there is justice for the martyrs of our revolution," said Mohamed Ras ...

The absence of the trial judge in the murder case of the late Cynthia Osokogu on Friday stalled proceedings. No reason was given for the absence of Justice Olabisi Akinlade of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja. A court official merely stated that she was "indisposed." The matter was consequently adjourned till the 12th of April for continuation of trial. Ms. Osokogu, 24, was allegedly drugged and murdered inside ...

Robert Schiavelli was recently summoned to court for laughing too loud. According to Schiavelli "I was laughing out the window. I was laughing out the window of my own house, and they gave me a ticket," Schiavelli was slapped with two summonses for disturbing the peace after police said he was laughing too loudly in his front yard. Police responded to Schiavelli's home Feb. 12 and Feb. 13 after neighbors co ...