A former First Bank Executive Director, Dauda Lawal, has appealed the February 16, 2017 judgment of the Federal High Court in Lagos, which ordered the forfeiture of the sum of N9.08bn recovered from him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Muslim Hassan had ordered the permanent forfeiture of the N9.08bn to the...

The Federal Government on Wednesday said investigations had shown that a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, spent over N500m between January and October 2016 despite his total annual legitimate earnings, including his allowances being N24m. This was disclosed in a document prepared by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Charles Adeogun-Philips, summarising the...

Until last week, Charles Adeogun-Phillips represented the Federal Government in the trial of Supreme Court Justice Sylvester Ngwuta. His sudden withdrawal from the case has been subject of media speculations. But he declines to speak on the issue for the sake of client-counsel relationship. At 35 in March 2001, Adeogun-Phillips was appointed a senior...

The Federal Government has hired a former International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Charles Adeogun-Philips, to lead its team of lawyers to prosecute the Supreme Court Registrar and others for alleged N2.2b fraud. But the arraignment of the three senior officials of the apex court was put off yesterday by Justice Abba Mohammed of the...