Legal

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Nigeria's Supreme Court has upheld six years jail sentence on former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, Mr Francis Atuche, laying to rest a legal battle that has lasted for 13...

By Lucy Adautin Former New Zealand lawmaker Golriz Ghahraman faced a shoplifting conviction and fine on Thursday, a scandal that has marred the career of the centre-left politician. Ghahraman, New Zealand's first refugee elected to parliament,...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the United Kingdom, after he agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of breaching the espionage law in the United States. He is travelling home...

By Emmanuel Nduka A Federal High Court that sat in Lagos State on Friday, ordered the permanent forfeiture of properties worth over N11.14 billion and N1.04 billion belonging to a former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)...

The reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the Emir of the prestigious Kano Emirate by the state government has been voided. Justice Abdullahi Liman of the Federal High Court, Kano, on Thursday, refused the application to...

By John Ikani  British authorities are moving closer to charging former employees of Glencore, a multinational commodity trading giant, in connection with a large-scale bribery scandal. This development comes two years after Glencore itself pleaded guilty...