Tag: US Court
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S3x abuse case: US Appeals Court upholds $5m verdict against Trump
US appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s verdict that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store changing room in the mid-1990s. The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written decision also upholding the $5 million compensation awarded by the Manhattan jury for defamation and sexual abuse. E Jean…
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama sued in US for defamation
A former Nigerian Ambassador to Namibia, Onoh Lilian has filed a libel suit at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama.
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Suspect in Tupac killing denies murder
An ex-gang member who had long boasted of his involvement in the murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur a quarter of a century ago pleaded not guilty in a US court.
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STRONG VERDICT: US court jails man for touching thigh of sleeping plane passenger
A court in the United States has slammed a two year jail term on a 50 year old man who touched thigh of a sleeping passenger on a plane. The man identified as Mohammad Jawad
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Tinubu moves to block Atiku access to CSU records as US Court grants motion to file PEPC verdict
A U.S. federal court has granted President Bola Tinubu’s motion to use documents from the Nigerian tribunal judgement passed last Wednesday to block his Chicago State University (CSU) records from being accessed by Atiku Abubakar, his main opponent at the February polls. Court filings obtained by an online medium showed that Judge Jeffrey Gilbert on…
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Atiku files separate case in US Court seeking release of Tinubu’s academic records
Presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 election, Atiku Abubakar, has filed a separate case at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, United States, against President Bola Tinubu after he withdraw an existing one before a circuit court in Illinois.
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US court sanctions Trump and his lawyers with nearly $1m over claim that Hilary Clinton tried to rig 2016 election
A federal US judge has sanctioned former US president Donald Trump and his lawyers nearly $1 million for a “frivolous” lawsuit claiming Hillary Clinton had tried to rig the 2016 election. District Judge John Middlebrooks said on Thursday, January 19 that the Republican, who is seeking to return to the White House in 2024, exhibited…
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Abba Kyari/Hushpuppi: US Court can’t order arrest of a Nigerian citizen resident in Nigeria — Police Commission
Reacting to the order by a United States court to the FBI to arrest Nigerian Police Officer, DCP Abba Kyari in connection to a $1.1million fraud perpetrated by Fraudster, Abbass Ramon aka Hushpuppi, the Police Service Commission on Saturday said it is strange that a US court could order the arrest of a non-citizen, a…
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Hushpuppi to be sentenced in October-US Court
The United States attorney’s office at the central district of California says Ramon Abbas, the self-confessed international fraudster better known as Hushpuppi, will be sentenced in October. Thom Mrozek, the court’s director of media relations, also noted that a directive was issued to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the arrest of Abba…
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US court jails Obinwanne Okeke for 10 years over $11m global fraud scheme
A court in Norfolk, Virginia, United States on Tuesday jailed Nigerian scammer Obinwanne Okeke 10 years for computer-based fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims. The sentencing was pronounced by Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith, said the Department of Justice, Eastern District of Virginia. “Through subterfuge and…