Attempted murder: Drama as defendant’s father weeps in court

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There was a mild drama at a Lagos High Court yesterday in the trial of a commercial bus driver, Quadri Kasali, charged with alleged attempted murder of Justice Ebenezer Adebajo, as the father of the defendant disrupted the proceeding, pleading for mercy.  Justice Balogun had, at the last hearing, dismissed a bail application filed on behalf of the defendant, but assured an accelerated hearing of the case. Shortly after hearing resumed yesterday, the father of the defendant, Aderemi Kasali, suddenly interrupted the proceeding, lying flat on the floor, crying and pleading that the judge should have mercy on his son. It took the intervention of the court’s orderly to stop the drama when he took the man out of the courtroom as ordered by the judge.

He Does Not Want A Court Wedding

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I have been dating this guy and the whole wedding preparation is in full gear, but another side of him is showing now. The bone of contention here is that I want a court wedding and he saying we won't have one. Fine, what are your reasons? I asked him. And he said because he's human and if he impregnates someone else, that means the child won't have a right to his property.

In fact I was shocked and dumbfounded by his reason as I don't think he ever puts me into consideration. My family is richer than his so which property am I coming after? I'm so confused right now and i have been asking myself if he truly loves me.

See the Dangerous stunt which might land RnB singer, Miguel in court

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 If you watched the 2013 Billboard Music Awards a few weeks back, you would have noticed the dangerous stunt Miguel pulled off while performing. He flew into the crowd and landed on a lady's (Khyati Shah) head. Well, weeks later, her lawyer is talking of plans to sue Miguel depending on the results from the doctor. 

NDLEA drags student to court for smoking Indian hemp

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has dragged one Jude Ugwu, a post graduate student of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), to the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu for hemp smoking.

The counsel to the plaintiff, Mr Uzoamaka Anigwe, said Ugwu was caught by the operatives of the NDLEA smoking Indian hemp around the Okpara Square axis in Independence Layout while standing alone.

Anigwe said that when he was sighted by a patrol team of the NDLEA, the accused made to run away.

Flight Cancellation: Court Awards Passenger ₦5 million

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A Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday awarded N5m to a passenger, Hakeem Ogunniran, as damages for the cancellation of his flight from South Africa to Lagos without compensation by Air Nigeria.

The plaintiff had alleged that though he had booked for Air Nigeria Business Class ticket, he eventually took the Economy Class of South African Airways following the cancellation.Justice Okon Abang, in his judgment held that the airline’s negligence caused business and financial losses as well as emotional trauma and stress to the passenger.

Hungry woman bares breast at court premises in Lagos

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In a desperate attempt to draw attention to her misfortune, Esther Odozi, 21, bared her breasts on Monday on the premises of Ikeja Magistrate’s Court as she protested against hunger that was “killing her and the five children” she left back home in Agbor Owanta, Delta State.

Odozi laid half-naked on a road in the court shouting, “Hunger, hunger. Government must do something today. I have not received anything from the plenty crude oil money government is spending in our state. Nigerians are wicked.”

She impeded movement on the premises. Passersby were astonished. One of them, who did not state her name but said she was a lawyer, told our correspondent that Odozi abused the “temple of womanhood.”

Odozi shunned passersby who shouted at her to cover herself as she rolled on the ground. She revealed wounds on her left leg and the right side of her hips; she said she was hit by a car. She refused a N500 given to her by a passerby, saying, “I don’t want your money. I want Fashola to give me N200, 000.”

Court Sends 20 Students To Jail Over Murder of lecturer

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Twenty students of the Kogi State Polytechnic have been remanded in prison custody by a Lokoja Magistrates Court over rioting and murder of a senior lecturer of the institution, Mr Nathaniel Abimaje.

During the court session yesterday, the police prosecutor, Samuel Ikutanwa, told the court that on April 19, the accused persons incited some unidentified students of the institution to riot over the setting up of a panel to look into the case of a student who was involved in examination malpractice.

He told the court that the accused persons were armed with dangerous weapons such as axes, guns and cutlasses. He further alleged that the students went on rampage and stabbed Abimaje severally.

Federal High Court remands ‘Spirit’ in prison for stealing N20m

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GUSAU — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned one Mohammed Yusuf Dabo before Justice Zainab Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Gusau, Zamfara State on 11-count charge of obtaining N20 million under false pretence and forgery.

Dabo is said to have defrauded one Ya’u Mohammed of N20 million in a classic Advance Fee fraud scheme.

The fraudster, posing as a spirit named ‘Asmau’, based in Niger Republic, convinced his victim into believing that the mystery female voice had powers to establish schools and mosques to propagate Islam but needed a human vessel through which this could be achieved.

N1.8 Billion Subsidy Fraud: Tukur’s Son Says Lagos Court Can’t Prosecute Him

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Mahmud Tukur, son of Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, Bamaga Tukur
standing trial for allegedly conniving with others to fraudulently collecting
N1.8 billion subsidy fund.

Two oil marketers and their company on Monday challenged the jurisdiction of a Lagos High Court in Ikeja to entertain the N1.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).  The marketers, Mahmud Tukur and Alex Ochonogor, alongside their company, Eterna Plc, filed their application before the court presided over by Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo.

Actress Chika Ike in Abuja High Court !

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After over two years of separation, actress Chika Ike has finally filed for divorce from the husband she married in 2006, Tony Eberiri. The actress filed for divorce in an Abuja High Court today citing irreconcilable differences. Chika also mentioned domestic abuse as part of the reason for filing for divorce but said she didn't want to go into details.
According to a source present at the hearing today, Chika will get final verdict from the court next month. Meaning she will be getting her divorce as early as June 2013. See another photo after the Break

Top Lawyer Arrested after Weed falls from his pocket inside court

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An assistant city attorney in New Orleans was arrested when a marijuana joint fell out of his pocket in court while talking with police officers.

On Monday while officers sat in a courtroom waiting to testify in a case, they spoke with City Attorney, Jason Cantrell, 43, when all of a sudden they saw a marijuana joint falling out of his pocket. 

Two police officers glanced at the marijuana joint on the ground, then at each other. They told the attorney that they have to arrest him for possession of marijuana. Cantrell, who has lost a race for a juvenile court judgeship in 2009, complied. Cantrell is the son of Magistrate Commissioner Harry Cantrell.

Actress Foluke Daramola About to drag Bukola Fasuyi to court for libel

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Actress Foluke Daramola is getting ready to sue her former friend and journalist Bukola Fasuyi for defamation of character. Bukola had claimed in an interview that she introduced Foluke to her new husband, Kayode Salako, and that Foluke had used juju to charm Kayode and break his home.

According to people close to Foluke, she and some family members have contacted their lawyer to sue Bukola for character assassination. Bukola will soon appear in court to prove that Foluke indeed used diabolical means to obtain Kayode Salako.

I Caught My Pastor Husband Having S-éx With Church Member, Woman Tells Court

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A 35-year-old Pastor, Segun Fasina, on Monday pleaded with an Orile-Agege Customary Court in Lagos, to dissolve his four-year-old marriage over wife’s alleged wayward life.

But his wife shot back in court saying the pastor was adulterous and that she once caught him having s-éx with a church member on their matrimonial bed.

Mr. Fasina, of No. 4, Moses St., Alagba, Orile-Agege had told the court that his wife, Abosede, had lost her sense of dignity, and was now smoking and consuming alcohol.The pastor also said that his wife was a gossip and troublesome.

Court orders 11 beggars to pay N1,000 fine each

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ILORIN — An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, imposed a N1,000 fine on each of the  11 beggars arraigned before it for  street begging.

The beggars were convicted on a one-count charge of street begging which the prosecution said contravened Section 4 of  the Kwara State Law, 2006.

According to the charge sheet, the convicts were arrested while wandering and begging for alms on an Ilorin street.

The accused persons pleaded guilty to the charge against them.

P0rnó-graphy case: Covenant University was right to expel student – Court

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The law suit filed by 20-year-old Longji Felix Vwamhi, a 400 level student of Information and Communication Technology Department of Covenant University against the institution, has been struck out by Justice Mobolaji Ojo of an Ogun High Court sitting in Ota, Ogun state on Wednesday.

Vwamhi had challenged the institution over his expulsion for being in possession of p0rnó-graphic materials in his laptop.

The case was dismissed for lack of merit.

It would be recalled that Vwamhi was on November 27, 2012 expelled from the institution following the outcome of the Disciplinary Committee set up by the university which found him guilty of being in possession of p0rnó-graphic materials and indecent dressing.

Photos: Lamar Odom & Kris Humprhies meet on the basketball court

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Awkward situation on the basketball court on Saturday night in LA as Khloe Kardashian's husband, Lamar Odom of LA Clippers took on Kim K's yet to be divorced husband, Kris Humphries of Brooklyn Nets while Khloe watched with her friend, Malika. Lamar's team won.  The Kardashian men. A sight for sore eyes..hehe! Oh, and I love Khloe's bag.

Kris Humphries -‘I’d Miss NBA Playoffs … To Screw Kim In Court’

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Kris Humphries is so hell-bent on humiliating Kim Kardashian … he’s willing to screw over his team and risk the NBA championship … just to face off with her in court. As much as he deserves pity for spending just 72 days in marriage after walking down the aisle with a woman he loved and thought loved him too, he deserves spanking too for considering dumping his team for a court case.

A judge has set a May 6th trial date for Kris & Kim’s long-awaited showdown. Kim has wanted a simple divorce for nearly a year-and-a-half, but Kris wants an annulment on grounds she allegedly defrauded him, he also wants to prove her reality show is fake.

My Wife Denies Me S*x, Steals My Money, Man Tells Court

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A 43-year-old man, Alao Gbenro, on Thursday sued his wife Mulikat Alao, at a Makurdi Magistrates Court over alleged denial of s*x and other conjugal rights by his wife.

Mr. Gbenro told the court that he did not believe there was still marriage between them. “I married Mulikat in 2005 under Islamic Personal Laws and Customs of the Hausa people and the marriage has irretrievably broken down. “My wife had over the years refused to be submissive throughout the marriage, including her conjugal duties,” he said.

Rihanna Shows Up To Support Chris Brown In Court At Probation Violation Hearing

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Sultry songstress Rihanna made a surreal show of support for her on-again beau Chris Brown at a court hearing stemming from the bad boy R&B star’s brutal 2009 assault. The Barbadian beauty sat silently next to Brown’s mom in the front row Wednesday as a judge ordered a follow-up probe of whether her on-again boyfriend really did complete his community service sentence for beating her.

My Husband Uses My Money To Chase Other Men’s Wives - Nurse Stuns Court

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He goes after anything in skirt, be it old enough to be his mother or she is of our child’s age. “I have become a laughing stock, even in the church. I made all efforts for him to stop this disgraceful act but he won’t listen.

“He collects money from me and uses the money to chase other men’s wives. I am tired. I don’t want the marriage anymore”. These were the lamentations of Mrs Comfort Oladepo. She spoke in her evidence-in-chief before an Orile Agege Grade ‘B’ Customary Court which she prayed to end her twenty five-year-old marriage to her husband, Kayode, who he accused of adultery, lack of care and drinking habit.