Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained Virony Nigeria Limited from using the pictures of Nollywood star, Mercy Johnson to promote its different products. Justice Aneke gave the order when he granted an ex parte order on a suit filed by Mercy Johnson against Virony Nigeria Limited, which manufactures household items and sanitary wares.
July 11, 2023. Azonuchechi Chukwu. Ecobank Nigeria Limited has demanded the rejection of the recent acquisition of FBN Holdings shares by an entity associated with Oba Otudeko, an erstwhile chairman of the banking group, over an alleged unsettled debt of N13.5 billion. In a letter to FBN Holdings, Kunle Ogunba, lawyer of Ecobank, accused Otudeko |
Ifasoji Ayangbesan, a suspected ritualist recently arrested by the police for his alleged involvement in the killing of a 26-year-old woman, Oyindamola Adeyemi in Ogun State, has said that his lawyer instructed him to source for the sum of N10 million to bribe the police. The police in Ogun State arrested the Ayangbesan, on Friday, April 28 in his hideout in the Ijebu-Ode area of the state. The 35-year-old suspect who reportedly offered the police a bribe of N1 million, in order to evade arrest, denied participating in killing the victim.
A defendant, Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, who is standing trial for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has accused his counsel, Barrister Dalhatu Shehu, of collecting a N2 million bribe to secure his bail. At the resumed hearing before a Kano Shari’a high court sitting at Kofar Kudu in Kano, Abduljabbar said, “Sometime, Dalhatu met me that the judge told him that if not of two people, he would have released me – my relative, Kabiru and chief judge.
The Nigerian Government said it has uncovered 14 assets, including shopping malls, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmland belonging to the disgraced former Deputy Commissioner of Police and Commander of Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Abba Kyari. Kyari was said to have failed to disclose his ownership of the properties in different locations in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Maiduguri, Borno State capital, Nigeria Lawyer reports.