A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has barred the factional Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhule, who is loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, from going into the state assembly complex until the burnt chamber is fully renovated by the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate in the just concluded Kogi State Governorship election, Senator Dino Melaye has announced his decision not to seek legal redress following his electoral loss. Melaye said his decision was hinged on the fact that the judiciary has allegedly become an ...

The National Industrial Court, has upheld the no work no pay policy by the Federal Government in the suit filed against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). According to the court, the no work no pay rule enforced by the Federal Government against members of ASUU who went on strike ...

By Innocent Anaba A National Industrial Court, sitting in Lagos, has nullified the Lagos State government’s appointment of a Caretaker Committee, known as Parks and Garages Administrators, and reinstated the operations of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, in the state. ...

Former President Donald Trump said on Tuesday night, hours after being charged in court, that he was the victim of election interference and he lashed out at New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg for bringing criminal charges against him. “I never thought anything like this could happen in America,” ...

Dirisu Yakubu, Segun Adewole, Nathaniel Shaibu, El-ameen Ibrahim, Sunday Nwakanma, Dennis Naku and John Charles The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, who stepped aside from his position on Tuesday,  is set to fight his suspension by a Benue State High ...

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  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 ...

Embattled former deputy Senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, accused of plotting to exploit a man for his kidney, told a London court that he thought he was being ‘scammed’ by doctors. Ekweremadu, 60, is accused of conspiring to facilitate the travel of a man to Britain to use him as an ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 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 ...

Agency Report An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday restrained the Office of Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, and Kosofe Local Government from forcefully taking over the Alaba Section of Mile 12 Market. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Justice Latifat Oluyemi gave the ...

By  Naomi Chima The police have arraigned a forex trader, Temitope Badmus, for allegedly stealing N221.6m from six investors. Our correspondent gathered that the 36-year-old allegedly collected the money from the complainants on the pretext of trading with it on Forex Online trading platform. ...

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 ...

The unknown gunmen causing havoc in the Southeastern part of the country have again, destroyed another government facility in Imo State. The assailants reportedly set ablaze the building housing the high court and magistrates’ court in Orlu, Imo State, leading to the destruction of some ...