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Former South African president Jacob Zuma told thousands of supporters outside court in Durban on Friday that his opponents were telling lies and he would be proven innocent in a corruption case against him.Speaking in Zulu in his home…

Former South African president, Jacob Zuma, has appeared in court today to face corruption charges relating to a $2.5 billion arms deal. Wearing a dark suit, a smiling Mr Zuma waved to crowds of supporters and reporters as he mounted the…

Bhadresh Gohil, a lawyer to James Ibori, a former governor of Delta state, has lost the bid to appeal his 2011 conviction. A UK court had convicted Gohil and Ibori of money laundering. In the latest edition of its monthly media…

Some of the special anti-corruption courts designated to handle exclusively corruption and other financial crime cases have started functioning, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. The Corruption Financial Crimes Cases Trials Monitoring…

A suspected homosexual identified as Daniel, was apprehended just after he tried penetrating a boy from behind in Benin area of Edo State. According to online sources, the suspected homosexual was beaten mercilessly and stripped…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a Chinese national, Li Yanping, before Justice Babatunde Quadri of a Federal High Court, Abuja, for allegedly concealing the sum of $300,000 (N108m) while attempting to board a…

A five-year-marriage is on the brink of collapse as Mrs. Musilimat Olasuyi told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that her husband, Oluwagbemiga, permitted another man to sleep with her in their matrimonial home. The 48-year-old…

Former Military Governor of Kaduna State, Abubakar Umar, has threatened to take legal action against Glo, one of Nigeria’s major telecoms service providers. Mr. Umar disclosed this Wednesday afternoon after receiving several…

Nigeria’s Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has threatened to sue electricity firms in the country, should they keep over-charging their customers through estimated bills, even without supplying adequate electricity to them. The…

A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed April 25 for judgment in the suit by Accord Party (AP) challenging the legitimacy of the attempt by the National Assembly to reorder the schedule of the 2019 general elections released by the…

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday declared that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission lacked the powers to declare anyone wanted without first obtaining a court order for that purpose or charging the…

•Court dismisses kidnap kingpin’s application to quash charges A LAGOS High Court in Igbosere yesterday adjourned till May 7 for the arraignment of suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, on two…

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Wednesday quashed the sentence of two years imprisonment with an option of N750,000 fine imposed by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on a former official of the Police…

An 18-year-old nursing mother, Maryam Magaji, on Wednesday dragged one Badamasi Salihu, 20, whom she claimed was her lover, to a Sharia Court at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, for refusing to marry her. She told the court that Salihu dated…