Category: Legal
Govt’s 13-Count Charge Against Austin Okai is Incurably Defective – Lawyer
adminMay 16, 2017
…Court hearing on Okai’s case resumes tomorrow As hearing resume tomorrow at the Federal High Court, Lokoja, the charges levelled against a Kogi youth...
Barr Makolo Tackles Presidency, Senate Over Ministers’ Appointment
adminMay 15, 2017
A legal practitioner from Kogi state, Barrister Daniel Makolo, yesterday declared that both the Presidency and the Senate erred in law on recent appointment and...
Attempted Assassination: Taufiq Isa, Other Suspects Get Bail
adminMay 15, 2017
Kogi High Court on Monday granted bail to five accused persons, including the Administrator of Ijumu Local Government, Alhaji Taufiq Isah, charged with attempt to...
Kogi: 15-yr-old Fulani Herdsman Sentenced to Death for Murder
adminMay 11, 2017
15-year-old Fulani herdsman, Haruna Usman was convicted to death by a Kogi State High Court on Tuesday. Usman was said to have been guilty of stabbing one Happy David to...
Court Declares Mallam Busiriyu Aliu as Olu of Odokoro-Gbede
adminMay 08, 2017
…Sacks Ganiyu Isah, restrains him not to further parade himself. The Kogi State High Court sitting in Kabba has declared Mallam Busiriyu Aliu as the substantive...
Kogi Court Remands Suspected Boko Haram Member
adminMay 05, 2017
A Lokoja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered that a 27-year-old man, Adamu Anas Mohammed, be remanded in prison over alleged membership of Boko Haram terrorist...
Kogi Court Sentences Two to Death by Hanging for Cattle Rustling
adminMay 04, 2017
A High Court sitting in Kogi State has convicted and sentenced cattle rustlers, Muhammed Lawal Jauro and Yusuf Sanni, to death by hanging. The duo was charged before...
Court Asks EFCC to Return Jide Omokore’s Passport, Clears Him to Travel Abroad
adminApr 27, 2017
The Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited, Jide Omokore, was on Wednesday granted permission to travel abroad for medical treatment. Justice Nnamdi...
NBA Wants Appeal Court Established In Kogi
adminApr 13, 2017
The four branches of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Kogi, on Wednesday appealed to the President of the Court of Appeal to establish a division of the court in...
Austin Okai Charged to Court, Denied Bail
adminApr 11, 2017
National coordinator of Peoples Democratic Party National Youth Frontier (PDPNYF), Comrade Austin Usman Okai has been charged to court today for inciting public against...