Justice Nnamdi Dimg alt=’Court backs CBN, directs banks to collect customer?s social media handles’ class=’img-responsive text-center’ style=’margin: auto;’ba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has upheld a new Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) regulation which requires financial institutions to demand and collect the social media handles of their customers, as part of the standard Know-Your-Customer procedure. In a ruling on Wednesday, May 15, the presiding judge, Justice Nnamdi Dimg alt=’Court backs CBN, directs banks to collect customer?s social media …
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The immediate-past Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, and his daughter, Fatimah, have arrived at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja. Sirika and his daughter will be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for an alleged N2.7bn fraud in connection with the botched Nigerian Air project. They are to be arraigned on a six-count amended charge to the tune of N2.7 billion naira, before Justice Sylvanus Oriji. See more photos below…
A High Court in Benin City, Edo State on Monday, May 6, ordered the remand of one Osasumwen Vincent, at a correctional facility for allegedly raping an 11 years old girl. The suspect was arraigned on one count charge bordering on rape. He, however, pleaded not guilty. Justice Efe Ikponmwonba subsequently adjourned the case until June 10 for a hearing. The state prosecutor, Hamma Iyamu, earlier said the suspect sometime in October 2022 at Ohovbe Quarters …
Harvey Weinstein has been pictured for the first time since his 2020 conviction was overturned by an appeals court last week. The American disgraced filmmaker, 72, had his hands cuffed as he was pushed in a wheelchair out of a prison van and into a courthouse in Manhattan on Wednesday, May 1 Weinstein was jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault in the New York case. But in a turn of events, the New York Court of Appeals ruled …
Popular cross-dresser, Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye aka Bobrisky, has pleaded guilty to the Naira abuse charge leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Bobrisky was arraigned before the Federal High Court, Lagos on a six-count charge bordering on alleged Abuse of the Naira and alleged Money Laundering . When the charge was read, Bobrisky pleaded guilty to the first four counts bordering on Naira abuse. Before the charge was read, the EFCC’s counsel, …
Former US president, Donald Trump was granted a partial reprieve as an appeals court drastically reduced the $454 million bond he was required to post in his New York civil fraud case on Monday, March 25 and the ex-president said it would be his “honor” to put up the lower amount. A five-judge panel reduced the massive amount to $175 million a cut of nearly 62% and gave Trump 10 days to come up with the funds, according to a …