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Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi, has said no power can deprive the President-elect Bola Tinubu of his mandate. Mr Umahi made the assertion in Abakaliki on Tuesday while dedicating the victory of the All Progressives Congress in the state and across the country to God. According to him, those seeking to upturn the victories at […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Friday, ordered that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions seeking to nullify his election, through substituted means, on APC. The ruling followed separate ex-parte applications that were brought before the court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) it used for the presidential election. In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, the court held that preventing the electoral […]
Continue ReadingA businessman, Justine Onu, has filed a suit before the Customary Court in Jikwoyi, FCT, to dissolve his marriage after he allegedly caught his wife, Joyce, having sex with his blood relation in their matrimonial home in FCT, Abuja. He told the Court that the marriage has so troubled him to the extent that he […]
Continue ReadingJustice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos has acceded to the request of the Labour Party (LP) to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from employing the services of Musliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo, the Chairman of the Lagos Parks and Garages, to distribute election materials in Lagos. The […]
Continue ReadingA High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria, has restrained the President, Muhammadu Buhari, CBN, its Governor Godwin Emefiele and 27 commercial banks from suspending, stopping, extending or interfering with the currency swap terminal date. The order was handed down on Monday by Justice E. Enenche following an application by four political parties. […]
Continue ReadingGunmen on Thursday murdered Nnaemeka Ugboma, the chairman of Ejemekwuru Customary Court in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. The gunmen who operated on motorcycles killed Ugboma while presiding over a court session, according to reports. The incident brought the court sitting to an abrupt end as lawyers, court staff and litigants […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria has on Monday dismissed the suit by a former presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Chief Ambrose Owuru, against the election of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, in the 2019 presidential election. Justice Inyang Ekwo dismissed the suit seeking Buhari’s sack on three grounds. The grounds were […]
Continue ReadingFormer Governor of Osun State, Mr. Olagunsoye Oyinlola has threatened to institute legal action against the Inspector General of Police (IGP), for refusing to release the IG Monitoring Team Report in respect of his petition against MTN Nigeria and others. In a letter dated January 27, 2023, which Oyinlola addressed to the Inspector General of […]
Continue ReadingA High Court of Ekiti State on Wednesday morning asked the Ekiti State House of Assembly, the Clerk and Hon Olubunmi Adelugba, the defendant /respondents in the suit challenging the impeachment of Rt Hon. Olugboyega Aribisogan as Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly to file their defense in the matter and stop waisting the […]
Continue ReadingLess than two months to Nigeria’s 2023 general election, a Yola High Court, Adamawa State, Nigeria, on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, sacked Senator Elisha Abbo as the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senatorial candidate for Adamawa North senatorial district for the 2023 election. The presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Danladi, held that the senator, having been expelled […]
Continue ReadingA married female Nigerian nurse, Imolita has told the Special Offences Court sitting at Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, how she was allegedly raped by a security guard, Ibuchi Emmanuel, at a school where she worked as a nurse. Giving her evidence, she said she was on night duty on the day the incident happened, while […]
Continue ReadingA High Court sitting in Maitama, in Abuja, Nigeria has formally granted Anita Okoye and Paul Okoye divorce. Recall that in August 2021, Anita Okoye filed for divorce after 8 years of marriage. Anita Okoye cited five major reasons for her decision to divorce her husband: cheating, a claimed separation, being an absent parent, fraud, and […]
Continue Reading27-year-old man and father of three children, Emmanuel Sanwo-Olu, has expressed a strong desire to see the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, whom he claims to be his biological father. According to him, his mother had just told him that the Lagos governor was his father. Making the assertions while speaking with journalists at the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali 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 retired from the Nigerian Police Force. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Friday, ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties linked to Nigerian Senator, Ike Ekweremadu, also an ex-Deputy Senate President. Justice Inyang Ekwo granted the order following an ex -parte motion filed and moved by Ibrahim Buba, lawyer to Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, has ordered the Nigerian government to pay the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N500 million as damages following his illegal abduction and human rights abuse from Kenya. The Court presided over by Justice E. N Anyadike, […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, has nullified the nomination of Governor Isiaka Oyetola and his Deputy Governorship candidate, Benedict Alabi on the grounds that Governor Mai Mala Buni who submitted their names to INEC, violated the provisions of Section 183 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Section 82(3) […]
Continue ReadingPresident of the Grade A Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, Mrs. S.M Akintayo has heard the testimonies of a couple, Mr. Rasheed Afeez and Mrs. Nafisat Afeez and adjourned the case till September 12 for judgment. Rasheed, who brought a divorce suit against his wife, alleged that she was rebellious and started refusing […]
Continue ReadingAn application filed by the Nigerian government seeking to extradite suspended deputy commissioner of police (DCP), Abba Kyari to the United States to face criminal charges, has been dismissed by a federal high court sitting in Abuja. Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo, on Monday August 29, held that the extradition request filed by the Attorney General […]
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