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  • Nigerian cyber fraudster in court 25 Nov 2009 18:36 GMT
    ... Economy - Development | Society | Technology Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has began the trial of a 23 year-old Internet ...

  • Judge blasts Police over poor handling of criminal cases 22 Nov 2009 23:47 GMT
    ... MAKURDI—Federal High Court Judge, Justice Abimbola Ogie, has condemned the Nigeria Police for alleged disregard for the tenets of the rule of law, especially in the ...

  • Nigeria: Prosecute Killings by Security Forces 26 Nov 2009 15:30 GMT
    ... It’s high time for the Nigerian government to turn its talk and promises ... of a militant Islamist group in police custody. In April, police, politicians, and election officials ... Police custody." Aondoakaa, who is also the attorney general, went on to assure the High ...

  • Prosecute Jos Killings by Security Forces, Says Rights Group [press release] 26 Nov 2009 17:14 GMT
    ... Dakar — The Nigerian government has not brought a single prosecution ... of a militant Islamist group in police custody. In April, police, politicians, and election officials ... of funding Boko Haram, and Yusuf's 72-year-old father-in-law, Baba Fugu Mohammed, were also reportedly killed ...

  • Corruption And Lessons for Judges [analysis] 24 Nov 2009 10:52 GMT
    ... conviction of the former chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority, Chief Olabode George and five ... Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of an Ikeja High Court still eliciting reactions, many are calling on ... Bill to amend the EFCC Act recently, advocated for the establishment of special courts to ...

  • British lawyer laundered bribes to Nigeria, court told 23 Nov 2009 20:21 GMT
    ... US over claims he laundered bribes to Nigeria for US construction firms. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images ... and Monaco, an Jeffrey Tesler, 61, faces jail in the US if sent there and ... there for trial. At Horseferry Road magistrates court his QC, William Clegg, said the US was ...

  • UK lawyer laundered bribes, court told 23 Nov 2009 21:31 GMT
    ... US over claims he laundered bribes to Nigeria for US construction firms. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images ... and Monaco, an Jeffrey Tesler, 61, faces jail in the US if sent there and ... there for trial. At Horseferry Road magistrates court his QC, William Clegg, said the US was ...

  • Forgery : Police lose bid to send Aregbesola to prison 24 Nov 2009 05:38 GMT
    ... ABUJA—The Nigeria Police yesterday arraigned the 2007 gubernatorial candidate of ... Mr Olayinka Okedara before an Abuja high court sitting on a six count charge of ... bail was complied with. But the trial judge, Justice Talba Abubakar, in a short ruling ...

  • Sudan teen lashed for "indecent" skirt: lawyer 27 Nov 2009 12:50 GMT
    ... girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her ... Doro said Khashif was taken to Kalatla court where she was convicted and punished by ... We want the law to be changed." Nigerian football star Stephen Worgu this month said ...

  • Halliburton - Briton Funneled Bribes to Country, Court Told 25 Nov 2009 19:57 GMT
    ... Halliburton - Briton Funneled Bribes to Country, Court Told Nov 25, 2009 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global ... huge sums of money in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and France, a London ... extradition to the US, where he risks jail if convicted. But he denies that his ...

  • Britist Solicitor Funneled Bribes to Country, Court Told 25 Nov 2009 18:18 GMT
    ... huge sums of money in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and France, a London court was told during an extradition hearing yesterday. Jeffrey ... extradition to the US, where he risks jail if convicted. But he denies that his ...

  • Italy judge rejects block of Eni in Nigeria 22 Nov 2009 17:32 GMT
    ... An Italian judge Thursday rejected a prosecutor’s request to suspend ... Eni and its unit Saipem with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), an Eni lawyer ... can still appeal the decision. However, Italian courts do not have jurisdiction over alleged crimes ...

  • Nigerians Have Legal Right to Education, Ecowas Court Rules 23 Nov 2009 07:55 GMT
    ... dramatic and ground-breaking decision, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja has declared that all Nigerians are entitled to education as a legal ... Federal Constitution of Nigeria. It is trite law that this Court is empowered to apply ...

  • Forgery - Police Lose Bid to Send Aregbesola to Prison 24 Nov 2009 08:23 GMT
    ... Abuja — The Nigeria Police yesterday arraigned the 2007 gubernatorial candidate of ... Mr Olayinka Okedara before an Abuja high court sitting on a six count charge of ... bail was complied with. But the trial judge, Justice Talba Abubakar, in a short ruling ...

  • Judge sets precedent in tackling corruption 22 Nov 2009 23:11 GMT
    ... Abacha, son of Sani Abacha, the late Nigerian dictator, guilty of graft, sentenced him to ... the sentence handed down by an investigating judge and ask for a full court hearing, which could result in a much ...


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