A Rivers High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has issued a bench warrant for arrest of former governor Rotimi Amaechi; the candidate of APC in the state in the 2023 governorship election, Tonye Cole; and a former Commissioner for Energy in the state, Augustine Wokocha.The Court issued the warrant at the commencement of hearing of the fresh criminal suit on the misappropriation of public funds of about $50m files against Amaechi, Wokocha and Cole by the Governor Nyeso...

Ondo State farmers farming in the Oluwa Forest Reserve, South-West Nigeria have sued the state government, Sao Agro-Allied Services Limited, and others over the continued clearing of their farmland despite a subsisting restraining order from the court.The claimants are a coalition of cocoa farmers, dwelling in the Oluwa Forest Reserve in various settlements grouped into camps of Temidire, Adeleye Itamerin, Ikawo, Ijoba, Ayeleso, Isero and their sub-camps, within the...

Following the court judgment ordering the Inspector General of Police to proceed on 3 month jail term for contempt of the law, the Police Force has now said that the agency is never aware of the court decision prior to this tuime.This was made known by the Force PPRO, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi in a press release.He writes:The Nigeria Police Force wishes to state emphatically that the office of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+),NPM, NEAPS, fd...