On Wednesday, the Federal High Court in Abuja scheduled a June 30, 2026, hearing for activist and publisher Omoyele Sowore's request to have his bail reinstated and a bench warrant against him thrown aside. Following the parties' adoption of respective application procedures, Justice Mohammed Umar postponed the case.
Human rights activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore was placed on immediate remand at the Kuje Correctional Center by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday. According to Vanguard, Sowore will be detained until Wednesday, June 24, 2026, when court cases are expected to resume.
A former Nigerian oil minister has been exonerated of accepting bribes from affluent oil executives in the form of opulent home stays and extravagant spending sprees in the UK. Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, was found not guilty of five counts of receiving bribes and a charge of conspiring to commit bribery during a trial at Southwark Crown Court in London. Alison-Madueke served as Nigeria's oil minister from 2010 to 2015. She was also the first female president of OPEC, a club of oil exporters.
A High Court in Katsina State has sentenced a woman, Hauwa’u Mukhtar, to death by hanging after convicting her of conspiracy, aiding and abetting terrorism, following a prosecution by the Department of State Services (DSS). The judgement marks the second death sentence secured by the DSS in June in terrorism-related cases.
Another round of mass trials for alleged terrorists in Abuja was started on Monday by the Federal Government. It was reported that more than 400 of the alleged terrorists would be arraigned concurrently by various judges at the Federal High Court.
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has ordered the arrest of the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, following his repeated failure to appear before the committee investigating audit queries linked to N210 trillion. The committee is probing financial issues raised in audit reports covering the period from 2017 to 2023. The queries originated from reports by the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation on the expenditures of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
