Stories by Onyewuchi Ojinnaka

Consequent upon the police investigation on the petition in which Mrs. Foluke Mudashiru alleged that the purported trustees of her late husband's estate, are still meddling with the estate in dispute despite the court order restraining them from parading themselves as executors of the estate, a contempt charge is recommended to be brought against them by the Police.

Cross section of policemen on parade to mark the new legal year in Lagos.

The ban on Okada from plying major roads in the state by the Lagos State Government, has created a source of income to men of the Nigeria Police as they harass Riders, impound their motorcycles at gun point and later sell them. Some victims who narrated their plight referred the unlawful activities of the said officers of NPF as 'organised' robbery. ONYEWUCHI OJINNAKA and GOODLUCK ANOSIKE report.

Worried by the incessant complaints that has trailed the post concession era in Nigeria’s port system,  the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority [NPA] has set machinery in motion for strict monitoring of the operations of the over 26 concessionaires across all the ports in the country.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had arraigned one Patrick Madueke, a suspected drug baron before Justice Saliu Saidu of a Federal High Court, Lagos for illicit drug deal.

Justice Morenike Obadina of the Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square Court complex has sentenced a fraudster, one Elijah Williams to 12 months imprisonment after finding him guilty on two counts.

The Court of Appeal Lagos Division has set aside the ruling delivered by Justice Okechukwu Okeke of the Federal High Court Lagos in 2010 on the ownership of Daily Times of Nigeria, and instead ordered that the matter be reassigned to another judge of the Federal High Court for a fresh re-trial.

 --- Says Amcon is in Custody
For the first time since the judgement of the Federal High Court which gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission 72 hours to make public the forfeited assets of convicted Cecilia Ibru, the Commission has reacted by saying that it has appealed against the order.

L-R: Dr. Andrew Pocock, British High Commissioner to Nigeria and Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, EFCC Chairman, during the visit of the British envoy to the commission in Abuja recently.

Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, the executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed that the Commission has secured a restraining order on the United Kingdom (UK) accounts of fraudsters of fuel subsidy regime, explaining that the Anti-graft agency is formalising ways to getting the funds forfeited and returned to Nigeria.