Abulrasheed Maina’s Lawyer Adeola Adedipe, engaged by fleeing ex-Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), in the ongoing trial for money laundering has tendered an application to quit the case. Adedipe, who is representing Maina’s company – Common Input Property and Investment Ltd -, told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, at the
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A Tennessee fugitive wanted on rape charges killed himself on Thursday, September 10, when confronted by police in Alabama, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) said on Friday. David Whelan, 49, an attorney from Murfreesboro was wanted on multiple rape charges including aggravated and rape of a teenage girl who had been babysitting his daughter,
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An Enugu High Court on Monday found two suspects, Mr Dennis Ozonwgu, former President General of Okwojo Ngwo, in Udi Local Government Area, and Mr Kelvin Oyibe guilty in the murder of Chief Theophilus Ozongwu. The suspects who were among 8 persons charged to court were convicted while six others were discharged and acquitted. While
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Kpajie Nnamdi Ibegbu has called for full enforcement of the life jail term recently prescribed by the national assembly for rapists. He described any human engaging in rape as worst than an animal, saying that the life jail term would go a long way to separating such a person
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The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Onitsha Branch has elected new executives that will pilot the affairs of the association for the next two years according to its constitution. The election produced Bar. Onyechi Ononye as the new chairman of NBA, Bar. Margret Wilcox as vice chairman, Bar. Frank Ibechukwu as Secretary, Bar. Stella Ikeogu as
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ANAMBRA, Onitsha An Anambra High Court sitting in Onitsha, Anambra State, has asked the police to pay, Mr Ogbonnaya Obasi, a lawyer in the state, the sum of N25m as damages for abuse of human rights and torture. Delivering judgment on Monday, the court presided by Justice Theophifine Oguji ordered the respondents to tender personal
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A 37-year-old graduate of Estate Management at the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Melvin Oromidayo, has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment by an Ipetumodu Magistrate’s Court in Osun State for impersonating a lawyer. Oromidayo was said to have been practising law and handling cases at different courts for unsuspecting members of the public for over a
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