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An Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos on Friday dissolved a 30-year marriage between a civil servant, Virginia Ugwuja, and her husband, Emmanuel, a retired Police officer, over irreconcilable differences. The 49-year-old petitioner told the court that her estranged husband, who is a pastor, accused her of being possessed by an evil spirit. “Since he heard from the church that I …

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The Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Lagos State Government from enforcing the provisions of its new Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant (Fiscalisation) Regulations 2017. The law introduced a five per cent consumption tax in addition to a five per cent Value Added Tax on every purchase or service rendered by hotels, restaurants, fast food outlets, event centres, bars …

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An Ebute Metta Magistrate Court in Lagos has refused the bail plea of a murder suspect, Folashade Idoko, a nurse  standing trial for allegedly killing her husband, Lawrence Idoko on 20th August 2017. In her ruling in a murder case charge number Q/99/2017 Commissioner of Police versus Folashade Idoko, Magistrate K. A. Ariyo refused the bail application and asked the …

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A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has ordered that a $37.5 million mansion on Banana Island, in the state, linked to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government. The court also ordered that the sums of $2,740,197.96 and N84,537,840.70 realised as rents on the property should equally be forfeited to …

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Justice Hilary Oshomah of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has set Oct. 4 to rule on the suit filed by some law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The graduates went to court following the refusal of the relevant authorities to admit them to the Nigerian Law School. Joined in the suit are the Council …

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23-year marriage between Azeez Adeshina, a bricklayer, and his wife,  Oluwatoyin, a banker, was on Friday dissolved on the orders of an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos State on the grounds of the wife’s desertion. The 40-year-old husband said his wife left their matrimonial home 10 years ago because he caught her red-handed with a man. Adeshina, who resides at …

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  A college vice principal accused of having a carnal knowledge of his student has been denied bail by the court where he is standing trial. Vice Principal of Government Day Secondary School, Tunga, Mr. Mohammed had his bail application rejected on Wednesday and ordered to be remanded in prison custody. Mohammed according to news report was arraigned on a …

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