Tommy Robinson was charged with two counts of harassment causing fear of violence, relating to messages and calls to two Daily Mail journalists in 2024. He was convicted on Wednesday.
By Gift ChapiOdekina, Abuja The House of Representatives has summoned the Nigerian Navy, Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Customs Service, Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) over the management of seized, forfeited and recovered assets. “Motion has been moved and motion has been supported, so we expect all these agencies: Nigerian Navy, Nigeria Customs Service, the Nigeria Immigration Service, the Nigeria Police and NMDPRA, and see them here on the 2nd of November,” he said.
Mohamed Amersi is suing over Panorama episode that made claims of his suspected involvement in corruption A Conservative and Reform UK donor lost out on a knighthood and a peerage amid claims of his involvement in corruption, the high court has heard at the start of his defamation case against the BBC. An episode of Panorama in 2021 and a BBC article caused “very serious harm” to Mohamed Amersi, his barrister, Oliver Powell, said on Wednesday.
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — Two senior lawyers have engaged in a war of words over the ongoing case concerning an alleged $2.1m Abuja land transaction involving Jordan Nyesom-Wike, son of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The rejoinder read in part: “Having perused the statement signed by Dr. Onoja, SAN, for and on behalf of Jordan Nyesom-Wike, we found it necessary to respond, thus: “All that was stated during the interview granted by I.G. Waru Esq. was drawn from the hard record of proceedings and processes issued in suit No. FCT/HC/CV/008/2026, just like the signature…
The youth reportedly attempted to lynch the murder suspects but were prevented by the police, resulting in a mob reaction from the youth.
By Hadiza Yusuf The Kano State Police Command has arrested two 20-year-old men over an alleged plot to kidnap the village head of Bangare in Gezawa Local Government Area of the state. Kiyawa said Idris reported the threat at the Gezawa Divisional Police Headquarters at about 1:30 a.m. on October 26, stating that an unidentified person had called him two days earlier and threatened to kidnap him.
Individual known in court as PPT is seeking a permanent injunction, with lawyers citing his risk of suicide Two news organisations have a duty to the public and their sources to publish allegations of exploitative sexual behaviour by a well-known figure despite claims he is “highly likely” to attempt suicide, the high court has heard. The anonymous individual, known in court simply as PPT, is seeking an injunction against the Guardian and ITN to stop them publishing the allegations, which he denies.
By Kingsley Omonobi The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested a Deputy Superintendent of Corps with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) over alleged sporadic shooting at a market in Kubwa, Abuja. “Preliminary investigations identified the suspect as one Onoja Samuel, a Deputy Superintendent of Corps with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),” she said.
Police operatives in Ondo State have rescued two suspects accused of murdering a farmer from a mob attack in Ala community, Akure North Local Government Area, with 14 people arrested over the incident. He said the death of a farmer, Rasheed Hassan, was reported to the police from General Camp in the Government Reserve Area on October 24.
Former comedian, in court on rape and sexual assault charges, denies setting goal to sleep with 5,000 women Russell Brand has told a court he had an obsession with sex as a younger man but denied setting himself a “goal” to sleep with 5,000 women. The former comedian, 51, said as he gave evidence in his rape trial that he had never forced himself on a woman, telling jurors consent was “non-negotiable” and “more important than sex itself”.
He faces allegations of financial irregularities and had been reportedly avoiding the police for a while
In a video that went viral on social media, the councillor was heard saying, “If we had finished him off at Karur on that day, we wouldn’t be in this situation today.” The remark was allegedly directed at Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, in an apparent reference to the stampede in Karur
P. Satheesh, who was recently named an accused in the case pertaining to a Kerala State Planning Board examination, was apprehended from his home in Kozhikode to record the first arrest in the case
Jackson Otieno Bambo was arrested in Tanzania after a two-year manhunt.
Trial judge ruled that the defence failed to provide sufficient medical evidence to justify his release.
Cyclone Arnab made landfall in Andhra Pradesh state early on Wednesday, damaging dozens of homes, destroying crops, and disrupting power supply in several areas.
The latest abduction of six people from Nuru Suraj Estate has heightened anxiety in Kaduna’s Millennium City.
Jury at Winchester crown court sees video evidence by Joanne Young, 49, in trial of four men accused of sexual assault A woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by men invited into their family home by her ex-husband described how she would wake in the middle of the night restrained and blindfolded and feeling “hazy”. Joanne Young said that on one occasion she managed to remove her blindfold and was shocked to glimpse a stranger in her bedroom who her husband, Philip Young, had allegedly arranged to have sex with her.
A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 64 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said in one of Europe’s deadliest such disasters this century. An EU spokeswoman said the bloc was “ready to help Spain if needed”, while European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said “Europe mourns” with the victims after the “devastating news”.
Form 6 is ‘cast in stone’ and cannot be changed, says SC, adding that the Bihar judgment is not a binding precedent and that it allowed ‘logical discrepancy’ in West Bengal as an ‘interim arrangement’; top court tells ECI to extend Delhi SIR