A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday restored Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Ararume as non-Executive Chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited NNPCL. The Court voided the sack of the businessman and set aside the removal done on January 17, 2023, by President Muhammadu Buhari on ...

Nigerian street-pop artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, also known as Portable has been sent back to the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. The ‘Zeh’ crooner was granted bail in the sum of N800,000 altogether for the three charges against him, with two ...

A coalition of civil societies and leaders of thought has called for the upcoming electoral cases in court to be televised and for the judgments to be delivered before the scheduled date of the swearing-in of election winners. The group is inviting Nigerians to sign up for an appeal on ...

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Following the judgement of the Appeal Court that affirmed his victory as the duly elected Governor of Osun state, Senator Ademola Adeleke has described the outcome as “no victory, no vanquish”. Speaking shortly after the judgement at his Ede country home, the Governor ...

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By  Esther Blankson A Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to electronically transmit the results of the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections in line with regulations and guidelines. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgment on ...

By  Segun Adewole Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied involvement in the search for an organ donor for their ailing daughter, Sonia. Beatrice was last year arrested alongside her husband in the United Kingdom for allegedly trafficking a ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, yesterday, reserved its judgment in the appeal filed by Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke against his ordered removal from office. Justice M.F. Shuaibu, who led a three-member panel of the appellate court made the announcement, shortly after lawyers ...

By  Onozure Dania The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Wednesday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to directly and electronically upload from the polling units to the IReV the results of the forthcoming, governorship and state House of Assembly elections in Lagos State. ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the nod to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the presidential ...

Tinubu seeks order to inspect election materials •PDP raises the alarm over alleged plan to erase, destroy evidence of rigging •Opposition parties insist reconfiguration of BVAS will tamper with evidence Chuks Okocha and Alex Enumah in Abuja The Court of Appeal in Abuja, yesterday, ...

The Federal High Court has announced the commencement of its 2023 Easter vacation from March 31 till April 17. The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, John T. Tsoho, who made the announcement in a statement issued by the Assistant Director of Information, Dr Catherine Oby ...

A judge in the Ekiti State High Court, Justice Babajide Aladejana, has been reinstated to office 16 years after he was suspended by the National Judicial Council, NJC. The NJC, under the chairmanship of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Alfa Belgore, suspended Aladejana from ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday concluded hearing in the suit brought against the Federal Government on the controversial Naira re-design policy and fixed March 3 to give judgment. Justice John Inyang Okoro fixed the date after taking arguments for and against the suit by some States of the ...

The Supreme Court will today (Wednesday) resume hearing on the Naira redesign policy. The suit is between some state governments and the President Muhammadu Buhari government. Nigerians will be keenly awaiting the results of the court proceedings, as they have been battling with scarcity of ...

Two senior legal practitioners have said the Central Bank of Nigeria’s defiance of the Supreme Court’s order has rubbished the country’s constitution. The legal luminaries were reacting to CBN’s refusal to obey the Supreme Court order last week restraining it from implementing the February 10 ...

Drama erupted in Supreme Court on Wednesday when Edo and Bayelsa States pitched their tents with the Federal Government in suit by other States against the Federal Government on implementation of the Cashless Policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Edo, represented by a Senior Advocate of ...

Kaduna State Governor, Ahmad Nasir El-Rufai and his Kogi State counterpart, Yahaya Bello have stormed the Supreme Court to monitor proceedings in a suit by their states against the Federal Government on Cashless Policy Regime. The two governors arrived the court room around 8:30am in company of ...

By  Onozure Dania An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic and Violence Court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 51-year-old pastor, Nduka Anyanwu, to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two teenage sisters. Justice Abiola Soladoye handed down the sentence after finding Anyanwu ...

By  Onozure Dania There was pandemonium on Monday at the high courts in Lagos State as lawyers and litigants were unable to file their court processes using the old  naira notes for payment. Officials at the high court  registries rejected the old naira notes, saying banks were no longer ...

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has restrained the Federal Government from continuing with the full implementation of the demonetization policy. Three northern states, Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara, had, in a motion ex-parte filed on February 3rd, prayed the apex court to halt the Central Bank of ...

By Francis Ugwu The Supreme Court on Monday restored the Senate President, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan as the Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Yobe North Senatorial District. In a split judgement of three to two, the apex court affirmed Lawan as the authentic ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday restrained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling the Governor of Rivers, Nyesom Wike, from the party. Justice James Omotosho made the order following an ex-parte motion filed by Governor Wike against the PDP and its top officials. ...

A Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court has restrained the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, from extending the deadline for the use of the old naira notes. The court also ordered the CBN to fully implement the redesigned naira. Eleojo Enenche, presiding judge, gave the order while delivering ...

Gunmen on Thursday afternoon killed a customary court judge, Nnaemeka Ugboma, in Imo State. Until his death, Ugboma presided over an Imo magistrate court in Ejemekwurun, Oguta Local Government Area of the the state. Our correspondent gathered that the killer who came on motorcycles, invaded the ...

By  Onozure Dania Justice O. A. Oresanya of a Lagos State High Court has awarded N5m damages against a singer, Ikuforijimi Abdulrahman, aka Oxlade, over a leaked explicit sex tape with a woman on a social media app, Snapchat. A sex tape of the singer went viral online on February 9, 2022, as ...

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, dismissed an appeal the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, filed to nullify the nomination and participation of the former Governor of Osun State, Mr. Gboyega Oyetola and his Deputy, Benedict Alabi, in the governorship election that held in the state on July 16, 2022. A ...

Student of Federal Polytechnic Nekede Sharon Ogechi Okoroafor has hired a lawyer who will defend her after her reckless statement went viral on social media. The lawyer who has appealed to the management of the institution, has said that their client never meant to defame the character,standard ...

By  Segun Adewole The human trafficking case against a former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, resumed in a London court on Tuesday. However, anti- and pro-Ekweremadu protests were staged in front of the court ahead of the proceedings. AFP reported ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court yesterday dismissed a suit that sought the removal of President Muhammadu Buhari from office. The court, in a judgement delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo held that the suit, which was brought before it by a former presidential ...

All is now set for a Federal High Court in Abuja to deliver a landmark judgment on January 30 in a suit seeking the removal of President Muhammadu Buhari from office on account of alleged illegalities in the 2019 presidential election. The judgment billed to be delivered by Justice Inyang Edem ...

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun state on Saturday, alleged that the tribunal judgement that sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke was waybilled by the All Progressive Congress (APC). Addressing journalists in Osogbo Saturday, the party leadership led by the State ...

By  Bola Bamigbola The Osun State Police Command said it would not tolerate any act capable of causing a crisis in the state as the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal delivers its judgment on Friday (today). The command also said necessary security measures have been put in place to deal ...

The Osun Governorship Election Petition Tribunal hearing the petition of former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola against the victory of Senator Ademola Adeleke on July 16, 2022 has fixed Friday 27th January 2023 for judgement. Oyetola dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) with ...

By Clifford Ndujihe & John Alechenu, ABUJA The Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commenced court proceedings to disqualify the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over criminal conviction and sentencing ...

Eight Sharia Court judges and seven Sharia Commission staff members have been remanded in prison custody over the alleged diversion of N99 million, belonging to orphans in Kano state. A magistrate court in Kano presided over by Mustapha Sa'ad Datti, issued the remand order on Thursday following ...

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi is facing a fresh disqualification suit at a Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged possession of dual citizenship of two countries. Obi was dragged before the Court by another political party, the ...

The Lagos State Government has arraigned Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr. Drambi Vandi, for the alleged killing of a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem, on Christmas Day. The State preferred a one-count charge of murder contrary to Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos ...

By  Segun Adewole A married woman, Imolita (surname withheld), has told the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos State, how she was allegedly raped by a security guard, Ibuchi Emmanuel, at a school where she worked as a nurse. According to her, she was on night duty on the day the incident ...

Tajudeen Adebanjo Lagos Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) will lead the prosecution team in the trial of the killer of Mrs Bolanle Raheem. Mrs Raheem, a lawyer and expectant mother, was killed by a policeman on Christmas Day in Lagos while returning ...

By Tunde Oyedoyin, London Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, will spend both the Christmas and New Year Day celebrations behind bars after his application for bail was refused at the Central Criminal Court a.k.a. Old Bailey yesterday. His application for ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted Anita and her estranged husband, Paul Okoye divorce. Anita and Paul got married in 2014. Anita had told the court her major reasons for seeking a divorce were because of cheating, separation, being an absent father, fraud, and difficult ...

Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and current Director General of Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Labour Party (LP), was on Monday, December 19, convicted by an Abuja federal high court for allegedly breaching the Money ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to three months in prison for flouting a 2011 court order. The IGP’s committal followed a suit that was filed by a police officer, Patrick Okoli, who was unlawfully and compulsorily ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola says Nigerians, especially the political class are the most litigious people on earth putting the judiciary under a lot of pressure. Justice Ariwoola made the assertion on Monday in Abuja at the special session of the Supreme Court ...

The State Security Services (SSS), on Thursday, withdrew a suit filed at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to detain the former terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, for 60 more days after his arrest.SSS’ counsel, A.M. Danlami, told Justice Nkeonye Maha shortly after the matter was ...

The Court of Appeal in Makurdi, on Friday, upheld the conviction of Felicia Ogbuja for failing to protect a minor, Ochanya Ogbanje, who was allegedly raped by Mrs Ogbuja’s husband and son.Ochanya, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, suffered complications from prolonged rape allegedly by Andrew Ogbuja and ...

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, has discharged and aqcuitted a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal from the N544M contract fraud offences brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.The Court on Friday held ...

The petitioner before the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal and Governor of Osun State, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola, on Wednesday, sought adjournment of the matter, following the inability to serve the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission summons to ...

An Abuja based lawyer and rights activist, Mr Mike Enahoro-Ebah, has dragged presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to court over alleged certificate forgery, age  falsification and lying on oath.  Enahoro-Ebah, in three separate direct criminal ...