An Abuja High Court on Monday admitted five newspaper publications and certification receipts from the National Library of Nigeria in the ongoing trial of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, as evidence. Justice Maryanne Anenih […]
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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday dismissed a suit instituted by Mr Fubara Dagogo, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), seeking to void the party’s recently conducted national congress. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, in a judgment, held […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed May 25 for hearing in a suit filed by Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), a political party, seeking an order striking down Sections 138 and 77(5) of the new Electoral Act, 2026. The […]
The leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC) took a fresh twist on Friday after the Federal High Court in Abuja adjourned indefinitely the suit challenging the emergence of former Senate President David Mark as a key figure in the party’s leadership structure. […]
Veteran journalist, lawyer and activist, Richard Akinnola, has faulted a faction of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, for siding with the Department of State Services, DSS, against the Socio-Economic and Accountability Project, SERAP, over a court […]
South Africa’s Constitutional Court on Friday overturned a vote in parliament that had quashed the opening of impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a cash-heist scandal. Ramaphosa in 2022 easily survived a vote in the National Assembly that could […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The Federal High Court in Abuja ruled on Friday that activist and former African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has a case to answer on a two-count cybercrime charge filed by the Department of […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed May 25 for hearing in a suit filed by Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), a political party, seeking an order striking down Sections 138 and 77(5) of the new Electoral Act, 2026. The […]
By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA — The African Democratic Congress, ADC, yestersday alleged that there were attempts to pressure Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, to step aside from the Nafiu Gombe case, warning that such a […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has dismissed the preliminary objections and bail application filed by Ufoma Joseph Immanuel, the CEO of Intermediate Investment Holdings Limited, over his involvement in an alleged $1.5 million fraud case. Justice Mojisola […]