The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the N2.5 billion judgment given on November 30, 2015 by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) against the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria over its unlawful disengagement of 110 staff in […]
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By Ayorinde Oluokun Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama has ordered the police and the Department of State Services, DSS to investigate his court Registrar, Nasiru Onimisi Zubairu as well as the 2nd defendant in an […]
Federal Capital Territory Chief Magistrate’s Court, Abuja, has dismissed a defamation suit filed against Nollywood actress, Elizabeth Anjorin (aka Lizzy Anjorin), for being incompetent and lacking merit. In dismissing the suit, CR/25/2025, Chief Magistrate Sunday Adukwu awarded N50,000 costs against the […]
A UK-based Nigerian man, Adedapo Adegbola has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a woman he worked with after she ended their brief ‘controlling relationship’. Adegbola fatally stabbed 23-year-old Stephanie Irons in the neck at her home in […]
By Alex Enebeli Justice Anthony Onovo of the Enugu High Court, on Thursday, ordered the British Government to pay £20 million each to the families of the 21 coal miners killed in Enugu State in 1949 by the Colonial masters. […]
By Ugochi Joy Ugochukwu A 41-year-old driver, Arinze James, was on Thursday arraigned before a Life Camp Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abuja for allegedly swindling his client of N650,000. James, who resides in Karmo, Abuja, is facing a two-count charge of criminal breach […]
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has urged the Court of Appeal to quash the life imprisonment imposed on him by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice James Omotosho, last November 19, found him guilty of […]
A High Court in Kebbi State has sentenced Suleman Jidda, 30, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy. Jidda, a resident of Bayan Kara area of Birnin Kebbi, was arraigned on November 8, 2024, on a one-count charge […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— In November 2022, the then Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, declared Nigerians, especially the political class, as the most litigious people on earth. He said the barrage of cases flooding the various courtrooms […]
By Taiye Agbaje The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, rejected two sets of documents tendered by Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, in his ongoing trial over alleged defamatory remarks against President Bola Tinubu. Justice Mohammed Umar, in […]