Legal

By John Ikani Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who killed George Floyd on a Minneapolis street last year, was sentenced Friday to 22 and half years in prison. The punishment — which fell short of...

By John Ikani The jail sentences handed down to Nigerian Emeka Obi and Italian Gianluca Di Nardo, for their part in a graft case involving Eni and Shell in Nigeria have been overturned by an Italian...

By John Ikani  Former rebel leader and Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Guillaume Soro has been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia on charges of plotting a coup against President Alassane Ouattara in late 2019. The...

  A recent document obtained by People’s Gazette has uncovered how Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari splashed public funds on Adamu Garba’s social media platform, ‘Crowwe’ to fight microblogging giants, Facebook and Twitter. Garba had been actively...

  By Chioma Iruke   The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice in Abuja, today barred the Nigerian Government and its agents from harassing, penalizing, arresting, or prosecuting anyone in Nigeria who...

  By Emmanuel Nduka   Ex-Chairman of Nigeria’s House of Representatives Probe Panel, Farouk Lawal has bagged a seven-year jail term for demanding $3million bribe from billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola.   Justice Angela Otaluka of the...